Watertight Doors

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La Science et la Vie	WATERTIGHT DOORS ON BOARD A WHITE STAR LINER From 'La Science et la Vie', June 1913...	1913
	HUGE DOORS!	1935
The Washington Post	BLAME FOR TITANIC HORROR President of British Board of Trade Arraigned in Commons He Retorts That Parliament is Equally at Fault for Failure to Enforce Steamship Regulations London May 21 – The attack on Sydney Buxton, president of the...	22nd May 1912
Crosby Herald	TITANIC HOME COMPLEX OPENS IN WATERLOO A NEW housing development with strong historical links to the Titanic has officially opened its doors....	25th March 2011
BBC News	POLICE CALLED IN OVER NOMADIC ROW The police were called to look into the removal of artefacts from the historic White Star vessel SS Nomadic, it has emerged. The artefacts - two ornate doors - were taken by the Nomadic Preservation Society which said it bought them in Paris and has proof of ownership....	23rd September 2009
MovieMaker Magazine	TITANIC'S CINEMATOGRAPHER RUSSELL CARPENTER Rush hour at the Hamburger Hamlet on Hollywood Boulevard. On a street crammed with tourists, nobody seems to notice a brand new Academy Award winner slip through the doors. Russell Carpenter, the tall, lanky, Oscar-winning cinematographer of Titanic, has come to dinner to discuss the movie and his future....	3rd November 2007
New York Times	THE DUFF GORDONS From London came a cablegram (to the White Star office), asking for news of Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. The cable remained unanswered for some time as line officials and their employees had more than they could attend to in the handling of inquir...	17th April 1912
u.tv	PUBLIC ACCESS TO TITANIC DRAWING OFFICE - U.TV The seven-year agreement between the Department of Enterprise and developers at Titanic Quarter is expected to be signed soon. It is hoped the building could be open to tourists for the centenary of the ship's sinking next April, after Titanic Belfast opens its doors to the world at the end of March. The attraction is expected to be thronged with visitors - but until recently all those enthusiasts could not have expected to get inside the historic drawing offices nearby where the vessel was designed....	12th December 2011
irishtimes.com	PROTESTANTS ON TOP: 'TITANIC' WAS A MICROCOSM OF ULSTER SOCIETY Designed and built by unionist Freemasons at exactly the moment they were plotting partition, the ship contained many coded references to their secret political goal. The most obvious of these were the watertight compartments, any four of which could flood without sinking the vessel. Likewise, Northern Ireland was designed to stay afloat even if four counties filled up with Catholics. The decision to include lifeboats for only two-thirds of the people on board reflected the idea of Northern Ireland itself as a lifeboat for only two-thirds of the people on board. But there were life-vests for everyone, which frankly was more than some of them deserved....	1st June 2011
BBC News	RMS TITANIC EXHIBITION OPENS AT ROYAL CROWN DERBY Royal Crown Derby has opened the doors to its new Titanic exhibition....	22nd February 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
	EVERY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE TITANIC Dimensions and Statistics: • Length - 882 feet 6 inches. • Beam - 92 feet 6 inches. • Draft - 34 feet 6 inches. • Height - 175 feet from keel to stack (the boat deck was 60 feet above the waterline). • Dec...	8th December 2005
	MEXICO CRUISE BROCHURE (PAGE 2) This page contains a rare view of the Morro Castle's dining room as seen from the balcony. Most other views show the rear of the room with its large sideboard - this view shows the passenger entrances to the room and also the landscape painting that hung between the doors....
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S HIDDEN DECK Samuel Halpern An examination of Titanic's double bottom...	8th April 2005
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
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
	POSTWAR 12. JUNGLE BAR. CABIN CLASS. JUNGLE BAR: One of the most delightful spots on the entire ship is the exquisitely appointed Jungle Bar. Its dark walls, sophisticated decorations and subdued lighting provide the intimate charm of your favorite rendez-vous at home. Here you will ...
Lloyds Weekly News	LORD CHARLES BERESFORD TRIBUTE TO THE BLACK SQUAD A fine tribute to the engineers and boiler room staff of the ‘Titanic’, the ’Black Squad’, who stood their posts in the bowels of the ship, to the last, was paid by Lord Charles Beresford in a letter to the Times. He Wrote: - “In the lat...	1912
	POSTWAR 8. FIRST CLASS DINING ROOM. DINING ROOM: Every detail of the First Class Dining Room is calculated to enhance your enjoyment of the lavish meals served aboard ship. The golden, padded ceiling, tinted mirrors and soft, diffused lighting lend an air of quiet distinction. On cruis...
	NIEUW AMSTERDAM : TOURIST CLASS DINING ROOM. 1938 TOURIST CLASS DINING ROOM: Located on A Deck, air conditioned and connected with the First Class Dining Room by doors, enabling both rooms to be used as one when required. Seating capacity 292. Carpeted in grey in large squares of alternating nap. Wa...
New York Times	CHIMNEY BURGLARS ROB FEATHER STORE Drop Down to Rosenshine's Like Santa Claus and Not a Burglar Alarm Sounded --- CARRY OFF $3,000 IN GOODS --- Insurance Companies in Despair, as Doors, Windows, and Exits Were Wired to Catch Robbers --- The be...	18th October 1911
	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
Shoreham Society Newsletter	A TITANIC LINK Little did any of us realise as we beat a path to South Coast Cinema doors to see that blockbuster movie Titanic that it had a Shoreham connection. A prominent Shoreham family lost one of their sons on the so-called ‘unsinkable ship’. Henry Head, ...	April 1998
	NIEUW AMSTERDAM : FIRST CLASS DINING ROOM First Class Dining Room: The Dining Room on A Deck is an exquisitely delicate setting of ivory walls, pale gold ceiling, gold leaf columns, tinted mirrors, satinwood furniture, two toned blue carpet and handmade frosty Murano glass lighting fixtures....
Newark Star	ORANGE CHURCH HONORS VICTIM OF TITANIC Grace Episcopal Church, Orange, was crowded to the doors yesterday afternoon during memorial services held for the Titanic victims. W. Anderson Walker, who lost his life on the ship and who was a well-known member of the church, was remembered durin...	29th April 1912
Gare Maritime	ANDREA DORIA : THE SINKING OF THE UNSINKABLE Pierette Domenica Simpson From "Alive on the Andrea Doria"...	9th January 2007
Whitehaven News	LOCAL CONNECTION WITH TITANIC DISASTER The Blackburn Times of the 20th inst. contains the following account of an interview with Mr. James Shepherd, son of the late Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, formerly of Whitehaven, and now residing at Blackburn, whose son, Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, was one of t...	2nd May 1912
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
BBC News	DRAMATIC FOOTAGE OF BRITANNIC Forgotten by many and unheard of by most. Yet the sister-ship of the Titanic is starting to escape from the shadow of the iconic shipwreck....	21st November 2008
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
Titanic Review	TITANIC : THE SHIP MAGNIFICENT : REVIEWED Dave Gittins Dave Gittins reviews Titanic: The Ship Magnificent, the ambitious two-volume edition that describes the achievement that was "Titanic" in detail as never before. ...	3rd April 2008
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
Titanic Research	A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Gavin Murphy How the gala opening of two hotels was disrupted two maritime disasters....	9th July 2002
	CITY'S UNSUNG TITANIC HERO Fred Leigh Article Frederick Barrett...	26th February 1987
	ACCOUNT BY MARSHALL DREW 'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a...
New York Times	LINER DID NOT SPEED, ISMAY DECLARES Not the Custom of the White Star Line to Try to Break Records --- TOOK LAST BOAT, HE SAYS --- Awakened by Crash --- Doesn't Know About Bulkheads --- Ship Sank in 2 Hours and 25 Minutes --- ...	19th April 1912
New York Times	SEALBY DEFENDS ISMAY Tribute from Republic’s Captain, Who Served Father and Son 25 Years --- Special to The New York Times ...	22nd April 1912
	NIEUW AMSTERDAM : GRAND HALL 1938 THE GRAND HALL: The Grand Hall is an excellent interpretation of the shipâ€™s predominating theme. Hendrik T. Wijdeveld conceived it as a subdued setting for the play of life that is continuously enacted here. The room is a symphony in gray that pro...
Titanic Research	MOLLY BROWN: MYSTERY UNRAVELLED Daniel Klistorner The evidence challenges some assumptions on where Molly Brown's stateroom was situated....	21st July 2002
	THE WHITE STAR LINE George Henry Preble THE WHITE STAR LINE, 1870.-The White Star Line was originally composed of a fleet of fast-sailing American clipper-ships, by the "Champion of the Seas," "Blue Jacket," "White Star,"...
New York Times	THE NIGHTMARE OF APRIL 14, 1912 Review...	20th November 1955
	JOSEPH GROVES BOXHALL - RADIO INTERVIEW Joseph Boxhall Radio Interview, October 1962 Transcribed by Capt. Charles B. Weeks and Cathy Akers-Jordan On that Sunday night the, 14th, of April, along with Moody who was the Si...	October 1962
Dowagiac Daily News	BISHOPS GO BEFORE SENATE BOARD OF INQUIRY TO GIVE STORY OF TITANIC DISASTER Both Are Called to Stand At Washington on Tuesday PUSHED TO SAFETY Mrs. Bishop Tells How They Were Hurried Aboard the Lifers When the Titanic Struck Huge Berg --------------- Mr. and Mrs....	26th April 1912
	R.M.S. TITANIC: UNIQUE ORIGINAL PLAN USED THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH TITANIC ENQUIRY. A large scales plan of the Titanic used during the Titanic enquiry is offered for sale......
	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...
	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
	ARCHIE JEWELL, BUDE BOY Bill Headdon King Street was owned by the Blanchminster of Charity, rent c2 old shillings a week. Our house was built of cob ...	28th May 2008
The Evening Post	MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC DISASTER The terrible tragedy of the Titanic, even though it is possible to hope that fuller information may mitigate it, presents several mysteries. Whence and how came the reports spread everywhere yesterday that the passengers had ...	16th April 1912
	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
	ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY Arne Mjåland Translated from German language by Arne Mjaland: He died 60 years after the Titanic. Tennis club lost honour member . On the April 15 1912 he experienced the most terrible night in his life. In February this ye...	18th November 1972

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