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Newark Evening News	BURLINGTON COUNTY MAN WAS BLOWN INTO WATER The story of his remarkable escape was told by Augustus H. Weikman, of Palmyra, Burlington County, when he alighted from the Carpathia last night. Weikman was the ship barber on the Titanic, but he assisted in the work of lowering the lifeboats from...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	PHILADELPHIAN RESCUED BY PARTY IN LIFEBOAT NEW YORK, April 19---Richard Williams, of Philadelphia, remained on the Titanic until she sank. He was standing at the extreme stern when the final plunge came. "After we hit the water the Titanic rebounded," he said, "and I was hurled...	19th April 1912
Sphere	TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913 Children emulate lifeboat scene...	30th August 1913
Bristol Times and Mirror	UNTITLED Of Miss Bentham it is related that she was sleeping soundly when the stewards came for her. She arose, dressed herself warmly and was handed into a boat. This was very crowded; so much so that one sailor had to sit with his feet dangling in the icy-c...	27th April 1912
St Petersburg Times	TITANIC OWNERS KEEP TOES IN LOCAL WATER RMS Titanic Inc. moved its headquarters from Clear- water to Atlanta nearly six years ago. But the bay area remains a key port of call for the company, which owns exclusive rights to the Titanic shipwreck.The company hired International Advantage Inc. of Tampa last year to run a Titanic exhibit in Greece. And under its new moniker, Premier Exhibitions, it chose Tampa's MOSI as the inaugural site for its Bodies ... The Exhibition show. ...	4th September 2006
Worcester Evening Gazette	BOY'S PRAYER FOR LIFE ANSWERED New York, April 19- Edward Dorking, an English boy who was on his way aboard the Titanic to an Illinois farm and who saved himself by jumping from the deck, told today of the last minutes of the doomed vessel. "Three of us young fellows were standing...	20th April 1912
	NESHAN KREKORIAN : CLARIFICATIONS Mr. Krekorian had 3 children, not 4. Minor spelling error: city is St. Catharines, not St. Catherines. He was single when he left for North America - his first wife was killed by the Turks. My recollection of how he got into bo...
Worcester Evening Gazette	STILL PLAYING AS WATER CREEPS UP New York, April 19- Mrs. John Murray Brown of Acton, Mass, who with her sister, Mrs. Robert C. Cornell and Mrs. E.D. Appleton, was saved, was in the last life-boat to get safely away from the Titanic. "The band played marching from dec...	20th April 1912
Camden Post-Telegram	SURVIVOR HERE IN ROLLER CHAIR Titanic’s Barber Tells of His Terrible Experience on Sinking Liner --- SAVED BY RAFT OF CAMP STOOLS --- Augustus H. Whiteman, [sic] whose rescue from the Titanic was told of in yesterday’s Post-Telegram, passed through Cam...	19th April 1912
New York Herald	WOMAN SURVIVOR HEARD SHOOTING Page 4. Mrs. A. A. Dick Says She Could See Men Leaping from Ship That Was Sinking. One of the most comprehensive and connected stories of the disaster was that recounted by Mrs. A. A. Dick, wife of a merchant in Calgary...	19th April 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press	MRS. GWINN IS NOT AT POINT OF DEATH Wife of Titanic’s Mail Chief Feels Loss Keenly but is Not Ill ---------- Metropolitan newspapers this morning all published stories to the effect that Mrs. William Logan Gwinn, wife of the chief mail clerk of the lost Titanic, w...	26th April 1912
Concord Enterprise	ALGERNON H. BARKWORTH Algernon H. Barkworth of York, England, was a guest at the home of Mrs. Richard F. Wood, Main st., Friday. Mr. Barkworth is one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster. Although Mr. Barkworth has traveled extensively in various parts of the w...	1st May 1912
New York Times	LOVE FOR SEA PREVAILS --- Chief Barber on the Titanic Obtains Post on the Lusitania --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5---Unable to resist traveling over the sea, August F. Weikman of Palmyra, N. J., who was the ch...	6th August 1912
Chicago Daily Journal	THE HERO'S CHOICE—THE PLUNGE OF THE TITANIC WITH THOSE WHO STAYED BEHIND The Hero’s Choice—The Plunge of the Titanic with Those Who Stayed Behind From a Description of the Final Scene in World’s Greatest Sea Disaster by One of ...	19th April 1912
Worcestershire Chronicle	FIRE UP HARD ''Down in the engine-room,'' said John Thompson, one of the surviving firemen, in New York, ''we understood that they wanted the Titanic to make a record run. The orders to us were to fire up as hard as we could. At time the liner made 77 revolutions...	27th April 1912
Haddonfield News	HADDONFIELD HOMES: RESIDENCE OF FREDERICK SUTTON Frederick Sutton was born June 15, 1850, in County Suffolk, England, and educated in private schools of Cambridgeshire. He came to Philadelphia in 1870 and began business with White Bros. & Co., Coffee Importers, at No. 27 South Water Street. In 1877...	10th June 1893
Telegraph.co.uk	RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION A rusty key, which enabled the Titanic's crew to try to rescue hundreds of mail bags from the sinking ship, is expected to fetch more than £50,000 at an upcoming auction.The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could start unloading the mail from the bowels of the ship....	11th April 2009
Washington Times	SAW FUNNEL SWEEP FATHER OVERBOARD Philadelphian Gives Up All Hope of Life of Parent --- PHILADELPHIA, April 22---Richard Norris Williams, jr., one of the survivors of the Titanic, who was coming to this city with his father after having spent many years abroad, is one o...	22nd April 1912
	TITANIC ON ICE James Tennant The Titanic sideswiped an iceberg and disappeared into history. What we haven’t heard about is the ice that broke her apart as she sank. The latest clue to this ice was the discovery of two intact pieces of double hull far from...	11th March 2011
Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard	UNTITLED (incorporating "The Henley Free Press") In an interview Jones said that there were thirty-five ladies and three men in his boat. When he saw that the Titanic had sunk he wanted to go back and save some of those struggling in the water, but w...	7th June 1912
Bridgwater Mercury	T. THRELFALL, LEADING FIREMAN T. Threlfall, leading fireman, told a stirring tale of how his watch went down to their duty in the stokeholds after the ship had struck, how on an order from the bridge they were sent up on deck at 1.20 am by the engineers, who themselves stayed ...	April 1912
	GOD MOVES ON THE WATER Blind Willie Johnson Blind Willie Johnson was born in Marlin, Texas c.1902. A Gospel singer and guitarist, he recorded just 30 pieces at a variety of locations between 1927 and 1930. He was accompanied on some songs by his wife Angeline. During the depression rever...	11th December 1929
New York Times	TRIBUTE TO J. C. SMITH Col. Gracie Tells How He and Also E. A. Kent Died Bravely --- After reading letters in the morning papers from friends of James Clinch Smith, asking why no account had been written of the part he must have taken in the heroic work of res...	25th April 1912
Toronto Daily Star	TITANTIC (SIC) STOOD ON END FOR MINUTES BEFORE SHE SUNK (SIC) Newspaper article...	19th April 1912
Newark Evening News	HENRY BLANK DECLARES CURIOSITY SAVED HIM It was the desire of Henry Blank, a jeweler of this city, who lives in Glen Ridge, to find out what caused the shock to the Titanic when she struck the iceberg Sunday night that gave him a chance in one of the boats that saved his life. ...	19th April 1912
Bucks Free Press	EXPERIENCES OF A TITANIC SURVIVOR (CHARLES E. JUDD) ‘Mr Wm Judd of Parkfield Villas, 166 Hughenden-road, High Wycombe, has received a letter from his brother, Mr Charles E Judd, who was one of those rescued from the Titanic, in which he gives an account of his experiences. He writes:- ...	3rd May 1912
Chicago Record-Herald	NIAGARA NEAR TITANIC'S FATE French Liner Arrives Under Own Power After Striking Iceberg. New York, April 16—Close to where the Titanic sank the new French line steamer Niagara on the night of April 10 crashed into an ice field and sent out a wi...	17th April 1912
	LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD Dear Miss Field, On board ship one has little to do to fill up time so I start to write a letter to yo...	10th April 1912
The Times	BEESLEY THE SCIENCE TEACHER ON SOLAR PANELS "Cookery by Sunlight" To the Editor of the Times Sir - Your leading article on this subject in to-day's issue reminds me that in 1913 I was the guest of friends in Pasadena, California, whose house was fitted with an apparatus f...	26th January 1922
New York Times	BEATEN FROM LIFEBOAT Youth Says Sailors Tried to Keep Him In Water --- Mrs. Catherine Evers of 446 Broadway, Bayonne, N. J., whose brother. Thomas McCormick of 38 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne was a second cabin passenger on the Titanic, visited him yester...	21st April 1912
Telegraph.co.uk	MINIATURE TITANIC READY TO TAKE TO THE SEAS The 1:150 scale replica is true to the original 882ft vessel, which sank on April 14, 1912, in every detail. The 6ft design, on sale for £1,500, is made from over 300 handcrafted pieces and has a gentle cruising speed of 5mph on calm water. ...	19th January 2010
News & Star	SELL-OUT CROWD AWED BY TITANIC SINKING AT CARLISLE CASTLE There was no Leonardo DiCaprio or Kate Winslet but sparks still flew as fireworks and torrents of water helped dramatically recreate one of the worlds most famous events in Carlisle last night. ...	27th July 2010
	MONTREUX 1908 (BACK) Montreaux. August 8/1908. "This is a fine view here from our room. The water in the lake is just this color and we can see these snow caped mountains from our window. We would like to stay here a couple of weeks but must leave tomorrow. Lots of love to you all, Uncle Henry and Lee....
Daily Sketch	HOW CAPTAIN SMITH DIED His Last Act was to Save a Child's Life Refused to get into a boat. Of all the wild and irresponsible messages that were sent to this country in the first hours following the sinking of the Titanic the one that caused th...	30th April 1912
Akron Beacon Journal	AKRON WOMEN TELL THRILLING STORIES OF THEIR RESCUE FROM THE DOOMED SHIP HOCKING AND RICHARDS FAMILIES SAT IN WATER A FOOT DEEP IN A LIFE BOAT Mrs. Emily Richards Tells a Thrilling Story of the Escape of Herself and Her Relatives From the Titanic (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal)...	20th April 1912
New York Times	GAVE LIVES FOR THE MAILS Postal Clerks Worked in Two Feet of Water---Hitchcock Aids Kinsmen --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 20---Postmaster General Hitchcock to-day addressed a communication to Chairman John A. Moon of the ...	21st April 1912
Belfast Newsletter	TITANIC EXPERT DISMISSES THEORIES A Belfast Titanic expert has poured ice-cold Atlantic water on a proliferation of old theories about the disaster, following the recent 96th anniversary of its sinking....	24th April 2008
	VARIOUS MEMORIALS Has a grave in East Bridgwater, Central Cemetery Massachusetts, USA. also there are some lovely Lych Gates in his memory at Broadway Churchyard, Worcestershire. also water fountain in memory of Archibald Butt and Mr. Frank M...
Guernsey Evening Press	MR. JOSEPH DUQUEMIN A letter was received this morning by the father of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, who was a passenger on the Titanic. He states that he has been in hospital and on his recovery proceeded to his destination, Albany, New York, where he has arrived quite well. H...	2nd May 1912
Chorley Guardian	THE TITANIC DISASTER: A NATIVE OF CHORLEY SAVED Mr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the second officer of the ill-fated Titanic, who is among those who were saved, is a native of Chorley. He is the son of Mr. Fred J. Lightoller, and was born in 1874, receiving his education at the Chorley Grammar S...	27th April 1912
Scotsman.com	TITANIC EFFORT KEEPS HEAD ABOVE WATER NEARLY 100 years have passed since the worlds most famous cruise liner, the Titanic, sank on her maiden voyage. Since then we\'ve had documentaries, books, exhibitions and several television and movie versions chronicling the events of 15 April 1912. Celine Dion even had her biggest hit singing on the bow of the ship - albeit a replica....	22nd March 2007
guardian.co.uk	SINKING OF THE TITANIC: THE WATERY SOUND MEDITATION RETURNS Gavin Bryars's piece of 'conceptual art' music has been performed in a swimming pool and water tower by child violinists and an experimental DJ. It now comes to the Roundhouse...	11th May 2009
Gaston Gazette	TITANTIC EXHIBIT TAKES VISITORS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN The newest exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium - "Titanic Aquatic" - features a display of nearly 200 artifacts recovered from the ship. In 28-degree water, as deep as 12,500 feet off the coast of Newfoundland, the wreckage of the Titanic was found in 1985 after sinking in April 1912....	31st January 2009
New York Times	PRAISE ASTOR AND BUTT Women Compare Their Conduct to That of "Miserable Specimens" --- Special to The New York Times --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., April 19---High praise was given to-day to John Jacob Astor, Maj. Butt, Vice President Thayer of the P...	20th April 1912
Rutherford Republican	MAIL CLERKS DIED BRAVELY Worked in Two Feet of Water to Save Registered Mail on Titanic ---------- The families of the three sea postal clerks who died like heroes on the Titanic will each received $2,000 if Congress complies with a recommendation made this wee...	20th April 1912
Washington Herald	ISMAY LEFT SHIP AT WOMEN'S PLEA White Star Official Described as Refusing to Enter Boat at First --- New York, April 18---J. [sic] D. M. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, who was among the rescued passengers of the Titanic, told how he said he witnessed Bruce Ismay’s departur...	19th April 1912
New York Times	DRESSMAKERS' QUICK FLIGHT Patrons, Too, Leave Without Ceremony When Fire Threatens --- A small but spectacular fire at 19 and 21 West Thirty-sixth Street shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon caused considerable excitement on Fifth Avenue among...	17th February 1912
Daily Sketch	THE HEROIC ENGINEERS Mr. Arthur Ward, one of the Titanic's engineers. In all the messages received no mention is made of what happened in the engine-room, of the gallant engineers sticking to their post with the water pouring into the bowels of the ship. That not one was...	22nd April 1912
Chicago Daily News	SAVED BY MRS. ASTOR FROM DEATH IN OCEAN Ernest Person, Titanic Passenger, Arrives at Indiana Harbor And Relates Rescue Struggled in the Water Declares Widow of Millionaire New Yorker Begged Crew to Drag Him Into Lifeboat ...	27th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. ASTOR IS ABLE TO TELL OF RESCUE birds...	22nd April 1912
Breeder’s Gazette	ADVERTISEMENT FOR WHITE STAR LINE LIVESTOCK TRANSPORTS White Star Line! LIVE-STOCK and CARGO STEAMERS. Liverpool and New York, REGULAR WEEKLY SAILIN...	25th January 1893
	MISS EARNSHAW'S MYSTERIOUS SECOND CLASS LIST A member of the Association Francaise du Titanic owns a very strange document, which he inherited from Miss Earnshaw. At the time she gave him it, he did not thought that it would be the source of many questions and just accepted it. Miss Earn...	1912
	LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO DOROTHY OCKENDEN Richmond County Country Club, N.Y.: ''Dear Dorothy (Ockenden), I was so pleased to receive your letter and to find you had not forgotten me. I had intended writing to you before but I was ashamed of my writing. You see ...	9th May 1912
Inside Smithsonian Research	OSCAR SCOTT WOODY'S KEYS Stamped "Sea Post 101/US Mail 19," the antique, flat metal key has a patina of orange rust from its immersion in salt water nearly 100 years ago-while still in its owner's pocket. The key opened locks on the 200 bags of registered mail being carried across the Atlantic to New York City aboard the White Star Line steamship R.M.S. Titanic during the ship's maiden voyage in April 1912....	20th November 2007
	THOMAS WHITELEY'S TITANIC LECTURE I was just about to go to bed and had my pajamas on when I heard a grating noise and the vessel came to a stop. I slipped on a pair of trousers and rushed on deck. I saw a lot of ice on the forward deck, the well deck, about twenty tons of it, ...	1912
Camden Daily Courier	SURE SUTTON HAS PERISHED AT SEA Relatives Return From New York Feeling Sure He Went Down on Titanic --- A DAY'S EVENTS AT HADDONFIELD --- Haddonfield, N. J., April 20---No word has yet been received concerning the whereabouts of Frederick Sutton, and it ...	20th April 1912
The Times	THE FINDING OF A TITANIC LIFE RAFT BODIES RECOVERED BY THE OCEANIC A letter has been received in Birmingham from Mr Harry C.Church, of Moseley, who was on board the Oceanic on May 16, in which he describes the finding of one ...	30th May 1912
Weekly Irish Times	A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC A New Leviathan The new Atlantic liner which Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited are building for the White Star Line will eclipse in size and tonnage the Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. The new vessel will be called the Britannic in ...	21st September 1912
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel	ABOARD THE TITANIC Twenty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. Colder than freezing. Colder than an iceberg.That was the temperature of the ocean on the night of April 14, 1912, when the "unsinkable" British steamer Titanic struck an iceberg and sank. Of the more than 2,200 passengers aboard, 1,500 died in water made colder than ice by the ocean's salt level....	10th October 2008
Galesburg Republican Register	UNKNOWN TITLE Frank Karun, a member of the Austrian immigrant colony in this city, will have some stirring things to tell when he returns to the city of the loss of the big steamship Titanic and his rescue later by the Carpathia . Just at present Mr. Karun is at t...	22nd April 1912
Western Daily Mercury	ARTICLE Frederick Harris, 57, Melville-Road, Mill-lane, Gosport, had also a graphic story to tell. When the last moment came, and it was found that all the boat[sic] were gone and the vessel was going to sink, there was wild confusion. Deck chairs, and anyth...	29th April 1912
	MOHAWK BROCHURE 2 "Handy reading lights, electric fans, hot and cold running water - you will look in vain for a stateroom that has more comforts than these." "Charting a course on the trackless sea call for a fine skill and accuracy." "The ship's o...
Get Surrey	TITANIC MEMORIAL DAMAGE WILL COST £1,000 TO REPAIR VANDALS have destroyed part of a memorial to Jack Phillips, the Farncombe-born chief wireless operator of the Titanic. The offenders smashed a stone water fountain and covered a nearby surface with graffiti. The damage was discovered by a member of staff at Waverley Borough Council and will cost more than £1,000 to repair. ...	16th March 2010
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	TITANIC BELFAST BUILDING IS JUST A SHELL, BUT ALREADY IT'S AWESOME Stepping through the entrance gates of the old Harland and Wolff drawing offices the new Titanic Belfast building looms impressively above me. The shiny aluminium shards which clad each of the four 90ft ‘hulls’ of the building glint in the sunlight, and as you walk closer you can see the different shapes which make each of them individual and give the impression of water glistening off the side of a boat as it cuts through the icy North Atlantic sea...	31st May 2011
Unidentified Newspaper	MEMORIES OF A TITANIC NIGHT Bruce Chadwick He Recalls Sinking 62 Years Ago --- The Easter season is never a completely happy time for Tom McCormack of Elizabeth, N.J. It always brings memories of his escape from the sinking Titanic, which went down in the freezing Atlantic 62 ye...	15th April 1974
bbc.co.uk	HAROLD LOWE TO BE HONOURED BY HOME TOWN Harold Lowe was hailed a hero on his return to Barmouth, Gwynedd where it is hoped a plaque will be mounted next year. On 15 April 1912, Lowe dispersed the occupants of his lifeboat among the other boats, and rowed back towards the sinking Titanic, managing to rescue four people still alive in the water. ...	9th April 2011
New York Times	HUGE WAVE SWEEPS OCEANIC Captain Thrown from the Bridge and Left Unconscious --- While plowing her way through the worst weather met with on the North Atlantic lane in many months, the White Star liner Oceanic, in last night from Liverpool, was boarded...	29th November 1906
	MISS EARNSHAW'S MYSTERIOUS SECOND CLASS LIST Front page of 2nd class list...	1912
New York Times	[WHITE STAR'S FIRST SAILING FROM SOUTHAMPTON] SOUTHAMPTON, June 5---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which sailed from here at about 1 o'clock this afternoon for New York on her first Western trip from Southampton, was given an enthusiastic send-off, many craft crowd...	6th June 1907
Unidentified Newspaper	OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DEAD AT 100 SOUTHAMPTON, England -- Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor from the sinking of the Titanic, has died at 100. Mrs. Haisman died Monday at a nursing home in Southampton, 80 miles southwest of London, her family said. Mrs. Haisman r...	22nd January 1997
New York Times	TITANIC DISASTER SURVIVOR DROWNS IN A SHALLOW POND BRIDGEPORT, Conn. April 18--Surviving the Titanic disaster April 14, 1912, by swimming for hours in the icy waters until picked up by a rescue ship, Oscar Palmquist of 42 Lenox Avenue was drowned in six feet of water in a pond in Beardsley Park into...	19th April 1925
Herts Advertiser & St. Albans Times	ACCOUNT OF THOMAS THRELFALL Leading Fireman T, Threlfall, one of the Titanic survivors, who was in boat No. 14, in the course of a narrative told to a pressman on landing at Plymouth, said: "From the wreckage we picked up four men. Then Mr. Lowe called out, 'There's...	4th May 1912
Chicago Daily Journal	LOSSES ENTIRE FORTUNE Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en route to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the world. “I was in bed when the crash...	19th April 1912
Royal Purple	"THE UNKNOWN CHILD" OF THE TITANIC After the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, seamen recovered a 2-year-old boy from the water who would be known as “the unknown child” for years to come. It took more than 92 years for US Armed Forces DNA identification scientists and researchers to correctly identify “the unknown child” as Sidney Leslie Goodwin, who was aboard the maiden voyage with his mother Augusta, father Frederick, and five siblings Lilian (16), Charles (15), William (14), Jessie (12) and Harold (11)....	22nd November 2011
Worcester Evening Gazette	BRAVE COUNTESS TAKES CHARGE OF LIFEBOAT New York, April 19- Miss Alice Farnam Leader, a New York physician escaped from the Titanic on the same boat which carried the Countess Rothes. " The countess is an expert oarswoman." said Dr. Leader, " and thouroughly at home on the water. She pract...	19th April 1912
	LETTER HOME BY TITANIC SURVIVOR ERNST PERSSON I can't find words to describe how dreadful everything was......
Titanic Research	WHY THE TITANIC DID NOT LIST Eqab S. Al-Otaibi Eqab S Al-Otaibi NS 415 Titanic Supervised by Captain C. Weeks The list of any ship is due to either a negative initial stability (GM, metacentric height) or off center weight. So the list is due to internal force. Off center weight i...	30th April 2003
	COPY OF LETTER SENT BY MR. KNOWLES'S DAUGHTER Dear Cousin, What a pleasant surprise to receive your letter on November 22nd. I am Thomas Knowles's daughter. My father would have been 104 years old last May, therefore he would, I presume, be the ninth generation. I myse...	28th November 1973
BBC News	TITANIC LETTER DISPLAYED IN CORK A message in a holy water bottle which was thrown overboard by a Titanic victim while the ship sank has now been donated to a heritage centre in Cork by his family. Jeremiah Burke, 19, from Glanmire in Cork was given the bottle at the quayside in Cobh by his mother before he set off for the US. As the Titanic sank in the early hours of 15 April, 1912, he threw the bottle and message into the sea. The bottle was washed ashore a year later in Dunkettle, only a few miles from his family home....	26th October 2011
dailymail.co.uk	TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TICKETS ORDERED FOR TITANIC CENTRE Nearly 35,000 Titanic enthusiasts have already pre-ordered tickets to tour a new £90 million visitor attraction dedicated to the doomed liner. The interest in Titanic Belfast - 400,000 are expected to pay a visit in its first year - emerged as its operators marked 100 days until Northern Ireland's largest ever tourism project opens its doors. The eye-catching building, which is made up of 3,000 aluminium panels shaped like the vessel's hull, has been built on the spot where the liner was first rolled into the water in 1911. ...	22nd December 2011
Western Morning News	LEAP OF 75 FEET A fireman named Walter Hurst, of Southampton, said he was off watch at the time, and made his way to the boat deck. He was, of course, told to stand back and about five minutes before the liner sank he jumped the 75 feet to the sea, having a lifebel...	29th April 1912
Channel 4 - Tuesday - 9:00pm - 10:30pm	TONY ROBINSON TITANIC TRIP PREMIERES TUESDAY Radio Times: Tony and Titanic director James Cameron plunge the depths for what you could describe as a very damp Time Team. It takes a long time for them to disappear beneath the waves in their tiny submersible, but be patient. Once they're on the ocean bed viewing mesmerising footage of the rusticle-covered wreck of the Titanic, you'll be glad you stuck with this. Inevitably, the murky water makes it hard to tell the poop deck from the boiler room, but clips from Cameron's movie help. ...	31st December 2005
Canada.com	LILLIAN GERTRUD ASPLUND, LAST U.S. SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 99 Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died, family and friends said Sunday. She was 99.Asplund, who was five years old that night in 1912, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. "She even said she saw the ship slip into the water," said Philip Maloof, her lawyer and close friend. "She was the last one (left) in the world to actually see the disaster." ...	8th May 2006
NewDesignWorld	HISTORIC TITANIC GREAT LAKES DINNER CRUISE It began in April 1912. On April 25, 2009, the romance continues. Local Marine City businesses, The Pearl's Water Street Boutique and Titanic Movie Museum, Ahead Turner Designs, and The Heather House Bed and Breakfast are inviting all to experience being a part of making history on this first ever Great Lakes Titanic Dinner Cruise held on the beautiful Detroit Princess in downtown Detroit....	26th January 2009
Daily Telegraph	FIRE ABOARD THE "CALIFORNIAN" A telegram from Vera Cruz reports that the Leyland liner "Californian" took fire in that port and that the outbreak was not extinguished until much damage had been done to the cargo by fire and water. The fire originated in holds number four...	3rd July 1913
	SISTER OF PLAINFIELD MAN SAVED LITTLE BOY Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilson of Chestnut St. are home from New York where they had a meeting with Mr. Wilson's sister, Miss Helen Wilson, one of the survivors of the Titanic, who came in on the Carpathia. Miss Wilson is at the Hotel Seville, with Mr....	22nd April 1912
	CAP ARCONA SUITE DELUXE One of the Cap Arcona's eight suites deluxe on D Deck. These suites consisted of sitting room, bedroom, bathroom, water closet, and trunk room. The suites were finished in cherry wood, walnut, birch, mahogany, East Indian satinwo...
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	THROUGH HELL ANDHIGH WATER There's no shortage of literature commemorating the launch of the ill-fated Titanic 100 years ago. But you should make room on your bookshelf for this distinct and evocative account, writes Michael Wolsey The launch of the Titanic 100 years ago was the high-point of Belfast's shipbuilding industry. Harland -amp; Wolff created not only the biggest passenger liner the world had ever seen but a ship more glamorous, more hyped, than any before or since. Sadly, it was downhill ever after. The industry's decline has been slow, a graph of troughs and peaks, but the troughs were much steeper than the peaks and now, for all intents and purposes, it is gone. ...	3rd July 2011
Knoxville News Sentinel	SHIPSHAPE RE-CREATED TITANIC RISES ABOVE THE LANDSCAPE IN PIGEON FORGE Half of the world's most famous ill-fated ship is being reconstructed in the Tennessee hills. A 30,000-square-foot replica of the Titanic is being built against the mountain backdrop of Pigeon Forge. The forward half of the ship will be re-created; it is half the size of the ocean liner sunk by an iceberg on its 1912 maiden voyage....	15th September 2009
icCoventry	HOW MY GRANDAD SURVIVED THE TITANIC RICHARD ALLEN has relived the tale behind his grandfather's desperate escape from the sinking Titanic.Boiler-room worker Ernest Allen was one of 705 people to survive the stricken liner's sinking on April 14, 1912. More than 1,500 perished.His grandson Richard, of Greendale Road, Whoberley, Coventry, said his grandfather plunged off the ship's deck to make a daring escape.Richard, aged 48, said: "He waded through the water in the engine rooms and got up to the deck but the lifeboats were full....	20th January 2006
Guernsey Evening Press	JACK POINGDESTRE Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road Jersey, also had his home in Southampton. A month earlier he had been on the crew of the Oceana when it sank of Newhaven. That had been on March 16th. He at least was used to shipwrecks...	April 1912
NewDesignWorld	DAVID G. BROWN AUTHOR AND TV DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER TO JOIN HISTORIC TITANIC GREAT LAKES DINNER CRUISE It's 'full steam ahead' as local Marine City businesses, The Pearl's Water Street Boutique and Titanic Movie Museum, Ahead Turner Designs, and The Heather House Bed and Breakfast continue making history on this first ever Great Lakes Titanic Dinner Cruise to be held on the beautiful Detroit Princess in downtown Detroit April 25th, 2009....	2nd February 2009
New York Times	LEAPED FROM LINER AT SEA TO SAVE MAN Majestic's First Officer Dived Overboard after Coal Trimmer Who Attempted Suicide --- BUT LIFEBOAT MADE RESCUE --- Gift from Passengers for Officer's Deed--Another of Crew who Sought Death Successful --- The ...	9th May 1913
New York Times	CREW BEHAVED ADMIRABLY Miss Elizabeth Allen of St. Louis was one of the first women passengers to leave the Carpathia. She was accompanied by Mrs Edward Roberts and Miss E A Mardell, also of St Louis. The three women appeared to be cool. Miss Allen who is a young woman of ...	19th April 1912
Christian Science Sentinel	TESTIMONIES FROM THE FIELD It is difficult to tell from the experience which follows, but the student of the Christian Science will readily see in it that acceptance of the truth made the overcoming of fear possible, even as in the case if disease, and that divine Princi...	October 1912
Gare Maritime	STRATHALLAN SEA TRIALS Unique and evocative home movie of the ill fated liner passing onlookers as she departs on her sea trials....	21st July 2006
Daily Enterprise	LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED ---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Man Who Tried to Climb Into Life Boat; Two Explosions Occurred ---------- August...	20th April 1912
Teignmouth Post	SHALDON AND THE DISASTER Mr. Henry Forbes Julian, one of the first-class passengers, of Redholme, Torquay, is also among the missing. He formerly resided at Ness House. Mr. Forbes made a fortune in South Africa with a patent for separating gold from quartz, and during his ...	26th April 1912
New York Times	BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio...	10th July 1910
Gare Maritime	THE CAP ARCONA : GALLERY OF A LOVELY - DOOMED LINER Jim Kalafus Recalling the loveliest of the 'forgotten' liners...	14th July 2007
The Times	LAST VOYAGE OF THE OLYMPIC CIVIC RECEPTION ON BOARD AT JARROW The liner Olympic (45,439 tons gross) sailed from Southampton last evening on her last voyage to Jarrow, where she is to be broken up. Among the hundred people who waved the liner farewell were a ...	12th October 1935
New York Times	BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS --- Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly --- Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The rise and progress of the leviathan liners n...	10th July 1910
New York World	LOOKOUT CLAIMS MURDOCH SHOT HIMSELF "As we stood there on Collapsible B, each man holding on to his neighbours shoulder fearful every moment that some lurch would send us off again into that icy water, two of the men I knew had been on watch in the crow's nest...	21st April 1912
ET Comment	THE RECORD SPEAKS! Tad Fitch, Sam Halpern and Bill Wormstedt In his latest opinion piece, Senan Molony said that it is important to bear in mind that Hugh Woolner is merely a battleground for the real issue, the claim that Collapsible C “left the Titanic close to her climactic consummation.” Yet, the final ...	13th December 2006
The Stevens Point Journal	FATED SHIPS HOLD AFIRE Fireman Details How Flames Broke Out In Coal Bunkers After Leaving Southampton and Steamship Was Rushed Westward So That Blaze Might Be Extinguished in New York Port. ...	27th April 1912
New York Times	POMPEII CHARMS MR. MORGAN He Is Especially Captivated by the Frescoes in New Excavations --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- NAPLES, March 17---When J. Pierpont Morgan went to Pompeii Friday he was a...	18th March 1912
Cleveland Plain Dealer	LOSES ALL HIS MONEY NEW YORK, April 19 – Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en rout to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the w...	20th April 1912
New York Times	TO DEDICATE NEW CAMPANILE Italy's Invitation Includes Engraving by American Artist --- VENICE, March 27---J. Pierpont Morgan has written a cordial letter to the committee, announcing that he will be in Venice on April 23 for the inauguration of t...	28th March 1912
Chicago Daily Journal	LEAPS FROM THE SHIP Charles Williams, the racquet coach at Harrow, England, who is the professional champion of the world , was coming to New York to defend his title, said he was in the smoking room when the boat struck. He rushed out, saw the iceberg, whic...	19th April 1912
	THE PRINCESS SOPHIA STRANDED ON VANDERBILT REEF A postcard view, by Winter Pond Studio,Â showing the Princess Sophia stranded on Vanderbilt Reef, on her final morning. Travelling at full speed, she struck the reef with enough force to ground he...
	GENERAL INFORMATION Jersey Address: 28 Old St. Johns Road, Jersey. In 1996 his family were still in business in Southampton - Baitdiggers and Fishing Tackle Dealers. Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road, also had hi...
Chicago Tribune	PASSENGER ON TITANIC RECALLS 1912 TRAGEDY Mrs. Hans Christensen, 72, keenly remembers a cold April night in the Atlantic ocean nearly 54 years ago when she sat in a bobbing lifeboat and helplessly watched the liner, Titanic, quietly slip beneath the frigid waters off the coast of Newfou...	3rd April 1966
Worcester Telegram	NEVER NEAR TITANIC Article...	18th April 1912
Toronto Daily Star	JUMPED INTO LIFEBOAT H.B. Stephenson Account...	19th April 1912
PR News	WORLD'S LARGEST TITANIC MUSEUM OPENS The Titanic attraction, officially named "The World's Largest Titanic Museum Attraction," opened in March.Museum owner John Joslyn is a former television producer who dove to the wreck in a submersible in 1987 and produced the documentary "Return to the Titanic ... Live."Joslyn has been a collector of Titanic artifacts and opened a smaller, similar attraction in Orlando, Fla., that he sold to build the Branson museum.The Titanic building looms above Missouri 76, Branson's Strip. The 100-foot-tall building recreates the bow of the ship, complete with a pool at its base that sprays water as though it were cutting through the ocean....	30th March 2006
Sunday Press	TITANIC STORY BY CAVAN SURVIVOR Sunday Press: Titanic Goes Down- But now comes a story within two stories for the local people have the firm belief that a little earth from the grave of Saint Mogue will, if carried with you, protect you from death by drowning, fire, in air or r...	21st September 1952
	EXTRACT FROM LETTER FROM GEORGE BEHE ''A few years ago I found an interesting titbit which, I believe, clears up any mystery surrounding how he was saved. His photograph appears in the May 4, 1912 issue of the Illustrated London News along with other crewmen who had returned to England....	20th May 1989
Washington Times	MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my...	19th April 1912
Evening Banner	RESCUED PASSENGER BRINGS WORD OF LOST SUPERINTENDENT A. H. BARKWORTH OF ENGLAND Tells of Acquaintance Made With Bennington Man on Steamship's First and Last Trip. The first information relative to Charles C. Jones, the superintendent of the J. C. Colgate estate, who lost his life in the T...	26th April 1912
The Milford Cabinet	MILFORD MAN WAS ON TITANIC Emilio Portalupi tells of thrilling experience....	April 1912
Providence Journal	STEAD'S BROTHER INDIGNANT-ASKS WHAT RIGHT ISMAY SAVED FROM WRECK London, April 20, 1912- Alfred Stead, brother of William T. Stead who went down with the Titanic is thoroughly aroused over the circumstances under which so many persons went to their doom in the waters of the north Atlantic. He said yesterday: "Spe...	20th April 1912
Atlantic City Daily Press	AN ATLANTIC MAN FINDS EVIDENCE FAVORING ISMAY D. W. McMillan’s Sister, Titanic Survivor, Says He and Astor Helped Women ---------- DESCRIBES DEATH OF DOUGHTY CAPTAIN ---------- In a letter to his wife, D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, who visited New Yor...	23rd April 1912
The Sphere	OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...	30th September 1911
Paterson Morning Call	JUMPED FROM SINKING SHIP Frederick Hoyt Sees His Wife Safely in a Boat Before His Plunge ---------- IS PICKED UP LATER ---------- And Happily Reunited With His Wife in Lifeboat---Thrilling Story of Man Known in This City ---------- ...	23rd April 1912
	THE RESCUE OF CARL SCHMIDT Carl Schmidt is pulled from aboard the Berlin after more than a day in the water. ...
Christian Science Monitor	WOMAN SURVIVOR OF TITANIC TELLS OF THE LAST HOURS OF SHIP Miss Caroline Bonnell Says Great Vessel Stood Still in Tracks and Then Gave a Great Shiver SAW NO CONFUSION (Written for the United Press by Miss Caroline Bonnell) (Copyright 1912 by the United Press) M...	19th April 1912
New York Times	WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK *** --- Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- WOMEN MANNED LIFEBOATS --- Forced to Oars by Lack of Proper Crew---Girl Who Gave Up Her Seat --- Magistrate Robert C. Cornell said yes...	20th April 1912
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	BELFAST, PORT OF Belfast, Port of. Belfast Harbour, the premier harbour of Ireland, is at the head of Belfast Lough, in latitude 54° 36' N., 5° 56' W. The time of high water at full and change is 10 hours and 43 minutes. The ri...
Daily Home News	JERSEY WOMEN TELL THRILLING TALES EAST ORANGE, April 20---Generous praise was given yesterday to Col. John Jacob Astor, Major Butt, Vice President Thayer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, President Case of the Vacuum Oil Company, Clarence Moore, George D. Widener and other men who perish...	20th April 1912
The Times	STORIES OF THE WRECK : CAPTAIN SMITH'S HEROISM After the men had had dinner the taking of their statements was rapidly proceeded with, and it was soon announced that a number of them were at liberty to leave the dock premises if they wished to do so. Most of them availed themselves of this per...	29th April 1912
Daily Sketch	MAN WHO WAS PULLED BACK Says Officer Shot Two Men Who tried to Enter Boat A graphic description of the scene on the Titanic after the boats had gone is given by an Athlone survivor, Mr ...	4th May 1912
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S HIDDEN DECK Samuel Halpern An examination of Titanic's double bottom...	8th April 2005
Derbyshire Times	CHESTERFIELD VICTIM A young lady who has intimate relatives in Chesterfield was among the officers on the ill-fated Titanic. She is Miss Evelyn Marsden, and is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. G. Robinson, Ash Tree, Chesterfield. A nurse-stewardess in the first saloon, Miss Mars...	1912
New York Times	FOR BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL Fountain to Titanic Victims to be Erected Near White House --- WASHINGTON, Oct. 23---Plans will be completed in the near future for the dedication of a fountain erected south of the White House in honor of the memories ...	24th October 1913
Elizabeth Daily Journal	COMPLAIN OF CONDITION OF BODY OF JOHN MARCH The body of John S. March, one of the five mail clerks of the steamship Titanic and father of Mrs. John A. Corwin, of 261 Stiles street, reached Newark yesterday from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was taken charge of immediately by the undertaking firm o...	8th May 1912
Ocala	OCALAN WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO SECURE TITANIC PASSENGER'S SIGNATURE Scanning a sea of more than 650 famous autographs on a tablecloth, one might ask: Who is Millvina Dean? Of all the personalities on the cloth, from Hank Aaron to Zig Ziglar, Walter Light Jr. said he found Dean the most captivating....	16th June 2009
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	SOUTHAMPTON, PORT OF Southampton, Port of. The Southampton Docks, now owned and managed by the London and South-Western Railway Co., are situated within a perfectly sheltered harbour, and have the unusual natural advantage of double tides, with pract...	1908
St Ives Times	HAYLE MAN'S NARRATIVE TRIBUTE TO A KIND HEARTED CAPTAIN...
New York Times	INSIST TORPEDO SANK HER Hospital Ship Britannic Survivors Say Propellers Killed 45 Men --- Several survivors of the hospital ship Britannic, which was sunk in the Aegean Sea, were among the crew of the Adriatic, which arrived here...	28th January 1917
Washington Herald	LIFEBOATS WOULD HAVE SAVED MORE Titanic's Steward, in Giving Story, Says Great Loss of Life Was Due to Their Absence --- SHIP'S ENGINEER, CAUGHT IN DOOR, BEGS TO BE SHOT TO END AGONY --- New York, April 18---The following statement made to-day by Alfred ...	19th April 1912
The Times	OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai...	20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	SMITH CONFIDENT OF SHIPS STRENGTH Commander of Titanic Believes Liner Practically Unsinkable Says Flushing, L.I. Friend NEW YORK, April 17,- The night before Capt. E.G. Smith of the Titanic started for Europe to take command of the liner, he dined with Mr. & Mrs. W. P....	18th April 1912
	ALBERT ERVINE'S LAST LETTER "Yours received in Cherbourg, France yesterday evening. We have had everything working nicely so far, except when leaving Southampton. As soon as the Titanic began to move out of the dock, the suction caused the Oceanic, which was alon...	11th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal	ISMAY GOT INTO BOAT John R. Joyce, a banker of Carlsbad, N. M., a passenger on the Carpathia, said: "When the Carpathia reached the scene of the wreck, we saw eighteen boats and one raft on the water. The Carpathia picked them all up. Four pe...	19th April 1912
Atlantic City Daily Press	LITTLE DISORDER ON TITANIC E. Z. Taylor, of London, Gives Graphic Story of Shipwreck and Rescue ---------- E. Z. Taylor, of Philadelphia and London, and stockholder in the American Mono- Service Co., told his story of the disaster and rescue in a cal...	20th April 1912
New York Times	WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK Mrs. J. J. Brown of Denver Tells Story of Her Seven Hours In Lifeboat --- *** --- Mrs. J. J. Brown, wife of a Denver mine owner, told yesterday afternoon to a reporter for THE TIMES at the Ritz-Carlton the story of her se...	20th April 1912
New York Times	ETHEL BEANE, WHO SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 90 ROCHESTER, Sept. 19 (AP)---Ethel Beane, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912, died over the weekend in a Rochester nursing home. She was 90 years old. The Titanic sank the night of April 14 on its maiden voyage from So...	20th September 1983
	GENERAL INFORMATION ALLEN, Miss Elisabeth Walton. Saved. Cabin B5. (Saved in Lifeboat number 2). (Niece of Mrs. E. S. Roberts and cousin of Miss Georgette Madill, which see). Home address: Tunbridge Wells, England. (Mrs. J. B. Mennell). Insurance c...
Chicago Record-Herald	SURVIVOR IN CHICAGO Anna Kelly, 17 years old, who says she was the last woman to leave the Titanic, arrived in Chicago last night and was taken to he home of her cousin, Miss Anna Garvey, 303 Eugenie street. Her sisters, Beatrice and Marguerite, live at the same addr...	23rd April 1912
Voyage	MUSGRAVE John P. Eaton On October 1911, when Titanic was moved from the deep water wharf to the Alexandra Wharf to clear a convenient mooring for the incoming Olympic, the move was accomplished with the assistance of the ...	12th December 2004
Western Morning News	WESTCOUNTRY CONNECTIONS A representative called at the residence of Mr. J. A. Pascoe, Crownhill, whose brother, Mr. C. H. Pascoe, is believed to be the only Westcountry member of the crew saved in the Titanic disaster, and had the pleasure of an interesting conversation wit...	29th April 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press	COMPTONS TELL OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, APRIL 20---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated over the loss of Mrs. Compton’s son Alexander, who went down with the...	20th April 1912
Illustrated London News	THE SEA MESSENGER THE SEA MESSENGER The little vessel represented in our illustration has been invented by Mr J. A. R. Vandenbergh of Portsmouth (Eng.), to be freighted with letters and papers belonging to any ship in danger of foundering at sea, or in ...	21st May 1870
Camden Post-Telegram	ISMAY PRAISED BY TITANIC SURVIVOR Ship's Head Barber Tells Camden Elks of His Thrilling Experience. --- BLAMES DISASTER ON WIRELESS JEALOUSY --- Bruce Ismay was defended last night by Gus Weikman at the home of Camden Lodge of Elks in Mr. Weikman's recital...	15th May 1912
	LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - RICHMOND COUNTY CLUB New York Monday 22/4/12 c/o Mr. Hale Richmond County Club Dongan Hills Staten Island N.Y. Dear Mother, Just a line to let you know I am getting along much better. ...	22nd April 1912
Wells Journal	LADY'S PRAISE OF A TITANIC SEAMAN One of the able seamen on the Titanic, Thomas Jones, a native of Anglesey has received the following letter from New York:- ''I feel I must write and tell you how splendidly you took charge of our boat on the fatal night. There were on...	30th May 1912
Burlington Daily Gazette	GUNNAR TENGLIN "It was not a hard shock," said Tenglin, "but my friend and myself, finding the engines stopped, thought, we would go up and investigate. I put on all my clothes but my shoes and we went to the forward deck. The deck was covered ...	25th April 1912
New York Times	ADRIATIC GOT ON A MUD BANK White Star Liner Stuck Fast Five Hours Till a Tug Hauled Her Off --- The big White Star Line steamship Adriatic, incoming with many cabin passengers, spent five hours early yesterday morning on a mud bank on the so...	5th November 1909
Washington Times	WASHINGTON MAN TELLS HARROWING DETAILS OF WRECK Col. Gracie Describes Scenes on Titanic After the Accident --- Last of the survivors to leave the sinking Titanic, Col. Archibald Gracie, of Washington, tells a story of horrible hardship in the icy waters after he was swept, clinging t...	19th April 1912
	HANNA MAMEE Patricia Sheehi (Cameron) (Hanna Mamee's niece)...
Newark Evening News	GOVERNMENT TO SHIP BODY OF MARCH HERE The government authorities are making arrangements to bring the body of John S. March, one of the three United States mail clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic, from Halifax to Newark, according to information received by Miss Antoinette A. Mar...	29th April 1912
	HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR Titanic Stories The Marconi Radio Operator's descendants visit Titanic's birthplace....	14th November 2011
Washington Herald	MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Daughter of Henry Siegel, the millionaire merchant. She was brought in on the Carpathia with the rest of the survivors. In relating her exxperiences she said: "There were many lifeboats preparing to be launched w...	21st April 1912
Berkshire County Eagle	THE WILLIAM PERINES CELEBRATE 25TH ANNIVERSARY newspaper photo...	29th January 1947
Torquay Directory	A FULFILLED DREAM. ECHO OF THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC One of the stewards on board the Titanic was a son of the late organist and choirmaster of a church in Torquay. He leaves an aged widowed mother, who was dependent upon him. His sister narrates a strange dream. She says that for several nights pri...	15th May 1912
Steubenville Herald-Star	DEATHS AND FUNERALS : WILLIAM COUTTS Police said William L. Coutts, 55, of 561 S. Negley Ave., Pittsburgh, was found dead at 11.31 p.m., Tuesday, between two houses in the 100 block of S. Water Street. Coutt's body was discovered by Alfred Rhea of 155 S. Wter St., who told po...	25th December 1957
The Charleroi Mail	MRS. HIRVONEN TELLS STORY OF HARROWING SCENES IN LATEST GREAT OCEAN DISASTER. SAW BIG STEAMER SINK Hundreds Leaped Into Water When Gigantic Steamer Went Down ---Says Ismay Was In Same Boat Shuddering as she recalled the awful scenes of Monday morning when the fated steamer Titanic sunk with over 1,700 person...	23rd April 1912
Washington Herald	ARCHIE PUT ME IN A LIFEBOAT Marie Young Miss Marie Young, of Washington, Tells of Aid's Heroism and Calmness --- By MISS MARIE YOUNG --- Musical tutor to the younger children of former President Roosevelt. She had been studying music in Europe and was returning...	20th April 1912
	PETER DENNIS DALY BY HIS GRANDSON "What follows is the story of PDD and his Titanic involvement as told to me by my father (Richard) and supplemented by my uncle Nicanor (who in the 20's settled in Buenos Aries, Argentina) joining other established Dalys there: Paul, (bachelor), Vict...
Cornishman	CORNISH LADY'S EXPERIENCE (courtesy of the Western Morning News) Mrs Stephen Ould (sic), of Sacamento, USA formerly of St Keverne, was in her room in the second cabin section, preparing to retire when the boat struck. "It felt as if something had tried to ...	16th May 1912
The Sphere	AN ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER BY A SURVIVOR Joseph Scarrott "The night of April 14, 1912, will never be forgotten. It was a beautiful starlight night, no wind, and the sea was as calm as a lake, but the air was very cold." "Everybody was in good spirits and everything throughout the ship ...	1912
Lake County Times	LAKE CO. MAN TELLS TERRIBLE STORY Survivor of Titanic Now in Indiana Harbor Owes Life to Mrs. Astor....	27th April 1912
Unidentified Encyclopædia	JOHN HARPER Aguilla Webb [Extract] John Harper, the newly called pastor of Moody Church in the early 1900's, manifested his Christian character in the sinking of the Titanic. Dr. W. B. Riley related the death of Harper. "We have the history of John Harper's en...
The New York Times	MOST OF THE CREW SAIL Sent Home on the Lapland---How Many Were Saved --- All of the crew of the Titanic, except the saved officers and about twenty of the crew who are to be witnesses, sailed for their homes yesterday morning on the R...	21st April 1912
Kenosha Telegraph-Courier	MRS. HANSON IS HOME MRS. HANSON IS HOME _____________________ ...
Chicago American	TITANIC'S COURSE AND SPEED CAUSED DISASTER, SAYS DAHL A picture of a sea dotted with so many icebergs that the Carpathia was forced to steer an zigzag course to leave the field of menacing floes was added to the indictment against officials of the White Star Line to-day by Charles Dahl, a Titan...	24th April 1912
Hanford Sentinel	RELIVING A TRAGIC NIGHT ON THE SEA Doris Robertson Polley Searching for one's roots has become a national pastime. What use to take years to research has become much simpler with the use of computers. Genealogy is no longer the sole intellectual occupation of a few scholars. Anybody can tract the history...
Chicago Examiner	A TITANIC HERO Charles Brown, the English comedian now playing with "A Modern Eve" at the Garrick, lost a number of friends when the Titanic went down. He knew most of the officers on the ill-fated ship, and the purser, McElroy, had been a com...	2nd June 1912
Dowagiac Daily News	MR. AND MRS. BISHOP GIVE FIRST AUTHENTIC INTERVIEW CONCERNING TITANTIC [SIC] DISASTER THEY RECITE A GRAPHIC TALE OF THE GREAT SEA DISASTER OF A WEEK AGO. "Ladies and Grooms First" Was Order They Obeyed and Both Left the Ship Together TELL EXPERIENCES WHILE AFLOAT German Baron Would Not A...	20th April 1912
Washington Times	WIDENER WAS HEROIC TO END, SAYS FRIEND Traction Magnate Kissed Wife Good-By, Then Went Back To Die --- NEW YORK, April 19---Rushed to Philadelphia in a special train that had been sidetracked at the Communipaw station of the Pennsylvania railroad, in Jersey City, were the su...	19th April 1912
North American	BARBER THROWN FROM TITANIC AS IT SANK Charles Weikman, of Palmyra, N. J., to Quit Sea After 750 Voyages --- HE CLUNG TO WRECKAGE --- A graphic account of the sinking of the Titanic was told yesterday by Charles Weikman, chief barber on the liner, at his home i...	20th April 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION Sofia was a maid. She was born in the village of Riistavesi, near Kuopio, in 1874. She moved to Helsinki in 1905, where she worked at the School For The Blind for three years. After this job she worked for some time at the Missionary House, and then ...
New York Times	FIREMEN OVERCOME BY SMOKE Stubborn Fire in the Cellar of 679 Broadway---One Man in the Hospital --- For two hours last evening firemen fought a fire in the sub-cellar of the five-story building 679 Broadway, adjoining the Broadway Central Hotel. Dense, stifling ...	7th November 1893
Unidentified Newspaper	MRS. ADA PERINE, 92, SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING Mrs. Ada Perine, 92, who 55 years ago survived the sinking of the "unsinkable" luxury liner Titanic, died Sunday at the Maryland Masonic Home for the Aged in Cockeysville, where she had lived since 1953. Mrs. Perine, then Mrs. Ada Ball, was...	1967
Bristol Times and Mirror	GRAPHIC STORIES OF HEROISM The New York correspondent of the ''Daily Telegraph'' cables a special and graphic message regarding the heroism of some of the women in the wreck. According to this source of information: The heroism of Edith Evans, who gave up her own life that ano...	27th April 1912
Camden Daily Courier	EXPLOSION PITCHED HIM INTO SEA Titanic's Barber Passes Through Camden on Way to Palmyra Home --- WAS SAVED BY SAILOR SAVED BY HIM --- The 5.28 train to Palmyra from this city last night carried the only survivor of the Titanic wreck from this part of th...	20th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP NOMADIC 'LEFT TO ROT' The Titanic's little sister has been left to all but rot away for three years as she awaits decisions on how she will be restored, it has been claimed. ...
New York Times	SMITH CALLED BACK HALF-FILLED BOATS Survivor Says He Heard Command by Veteran Skipper to Take More Aboard --- OTHER TALES CONFLICTING --- Mrs. Emil Taussig Declares Men Were Barred from Boats with Ample Room --- The fact that Capt. Smith realiz...	22nd April 1912
Western Morning News	UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ...	29th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	WILLIAM LINDSAY William Lindsay was one of the few saved from the Titanic on which he was a dynamo attendant. William Lindsay says he feels too upset to write much and his brother here hopes to hear more from him within a couple of weeks. The survivor of the great c...	22nd April 1912
Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Advertiser	MR. WILLIAM MURDOCH Mrs. Murdoch the widow of the late Lieutenant Murdoch, First Officer of the ill-fated liner, has received the following letter: Hotel Continental, Washington, April 24th, 1912. Dear Mrs. Murdoch, - I am writing on behalf of the surviving officers to ...	11th May 1912
The Daily Banner	STORY TOLD OF SINKING OF THE TITANIC By A Nephew Of A Mt. Vernon Man Who Was Rescued In One Of The Life Boats Charles Burgess Arrives At Home In England ...	16th May 1912
Washington Times	STEERAGE SURVIVOR HERE TELLS OF STILL ANOTHER REAL HERO Mary Glynn Declares Young Irishman Refused Seat in Lifeboat --- Maritime speed mania was the cause of the accident off the Newfoundland banks last Monday morning, which took as its awful toll 1,535 human lives and more than $10,000,000 ...	22nd April 1912
Jersey Journal	BATTLED FOR LIFE WITH SAILOR AFTER THE TITANIC SANK McCormack Tells How Seaman Tried to Throw Him Out of Lifeboat---Special Blessing for Bayonne Survivor _____ Thomas McCormack, 19 years old, of 36 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne, a Titanic surviv...	23rd April 1912
The London Gazette	LEGAL NOTICE OF THE RETIREMENT OF THOMAS ISMAY The London Gazette, Issue 26243, 8 January 1892. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Thomas Henry Ismay, William Imrie, William Samuel Graves,...	8th January 1892
Newark Evening News	MRS. COMPTON TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood, N. J., and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated o...	19th April 1912
Denver Post	LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ...	19th April 1912
New York Times	GIRL SURVIVOR HAS PRAISE FOR ISMAY Miss Rosenbaum Declares She Owes Her Life to White Star Head --- FORCED HER INTO LIFEBOAT --- Declares He Was Among Last to Leave Sinking Titanic, Calling "Any More Women?" --- Out of al...	23rd April 1912
Titanic Research	ICE ON DECK Henning Pfeifer Further analysis of the iceberg impact....	12th February 2002
Maidenhead Advertiser	AN ACCOUNT OF MY JOURNEY ON THE TITANIC Nellie Walcroft Sir, I am sending the account of my journey on the Titanic thinking that it will interest those at Maidenhead whom I know. I left Maidenhead on April 9th., stayed in London and caught 'the special train to Southampton at...	29th April 1912
Evening World	TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li...	22nd April 1912
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle	SINKING OF TITANIC STILL HORROR TO COUPLE HONEYMOONING ON SHIP Margaret Frawley MRS. EDWARD BEANE, THEN BRIDE OF 17, SAW SHIP SINK AS SHE CRUISED NEARBY IN BOAT; HUSBAND SWAM AROUND TILL PICKED UP; NOW HAVE 2 CHILDREN It was a strange honeymoon for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beane of 44 Michigan Street when on April 14, ...	15th April 1931
	TITANIC BLUEPRINT "R.M.S. Titanic" Harland & Wolff design dept schematic scale blueprint of "Titanic's" plumbing & water systems. Approx 9ft x 20ins. This drawing was the personal property of W.D. Wilson esq., leading draughtsman at Harlan...
Chicago Tribune	PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER _____________ Arthur Tree Brings Pictures of Giant Floes in Which Titanic Met Doom...	18th April 1912
The Times	HARLAND, SIR EDWARD J. OBITUARY --- SIR EDWARD HARLAND, M.P. Sir Edward James Harland, Bart., M. P. for North Belfast, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Glenfarne-hall, Enniskillen. He was found dead in bed. Except for a chill...	25th December 1895
Weekly Advocate	NEWARK WOMAN PASSED OVER TITANIC COURSE THROUGH WRECKAGE Mrs Henry Buell and daughter, Miss Margaret Buell reached Newark Friday evening after spending a year in Germany and brought back with her the first lucid details following the sinking of the Titanic and scenes prevailing after the disaster. ...	2nd May 1912
Washington Herald	MRS. CANDEE LAUDS MAJ. BUTT'S HEROISM Mrs. Churchill Candee "The Action of Men of the Titanic Was Noble," She Writes --- By MRS. CHURCHILL CANDEE, Of Washington. --- New York, April 18---The action of the men on the Titanic was noble. They stood back in every instance that ...	19th April 1912
Titanic Research	NOTES ON LIFEBOAT LISTS Peter Engberg Explore the difficulties in producing a credible list of lifeboat placements....	11th July 1999
Cleveland Plain Dealer	SAYS MUSICIANS KNELT AS THEY PLAYED HYMN Mrs Ada M Clarke, one of the survivors, went to the White Star offices today to arrange for her passage back home to Southampton, England. Her husband, Charles S. Clarke, with whom she was on her way to California to make her...	20th April 1912
Western Daily Mercury	STEWARDESSES INTERVIEWED Shortly before the special train steamed out of the docks, two of the stewardesses who are returning to their homes – Mrs. Gold and Mrs. Martin – granted a brief interview, in which they narrated their experiences. They were first-class stewardesses ...	30th April 1912
New York Times	FLOWERS FOR OCEAN GRAVE Wife of Titanic Victim Strews Then Near Scene of Wreck --- When the Cunarder Carmania was in latitude 39.16, longitude 50.14 West, the nearest she approached to the place where the Titanic foundered, Mrs. J. H. Loring, a first-cabin pas...	13th May 1912
Washington Times	NO ALARM FELT WHEN STEAMER FIRST STRUCK MISS CAROLINE BONNELL Passengers Came on Deck to Get View of Big Berg --- TERRIBLE SUFFERING IN THE LIFEBOATS --- Carpathia Gave Tenderest Care To the Rescued---Four Buried At Sea --- BY MISS CAROLINE BONNELL (Copyrighted, ...	19th April 1912
Trenton Evening Times	TRENTON MEN ABOARD GIANT TITANIC WHICH MEETS DISASTER IN ICE Washington A. Roebling II, and Stephen W. Blackwell among Hundreds of Passengers who are taken Off in Lifeboats when Maiden Voyage Seemed Likely to End in Sinking of World’s Biggest Vessel Returning to their homes in Trenton after a t...	16th April 1912
	WILLIAM GREENFIELDS ACCOUNT William was involved in his Father's fur business and sailed to Russia once a year to purchase pelts. Blanche went with him this time to buy silk in Paris for the linings of the coats. William met his ...
New York Times	COL. ASTOR AT FERNCLIFF Will Entertain Miss Force and Her Family Over Labor Day --- Special to The New York Times --- KINGSTON, N. Y., Sept. 2---The announced plan of Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss Madeleine T. Force to remain at Col. Astor's Sum...	3rd September 1911
Antioch News	DEATH OF ELSBURY POSITIVE Dispatch From the White Star Line Says That Elsbury is Not a Survivor ALL HOPE IS ABANDONED Gurnee Man on Titanic Not Among Survivors--Family Now Compelled to Give up Hope. The last hope of the James El...	2nd May 1912