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belfasttelegraph.co.uk	LET'S HONOUR THE WORKING CLASS HEROES WHO BUILT THE GREAT TITANIC Why has this city been so tardy in marking its great link with the Titanic? Why are some here still griping about why we should even bother commemorating it now? The Titanic was a disaster, they say. Why bum about our role in building a ship that sank on its first outing? It's an argument that misses the point by a large iceberg. Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/lindy-mcdowell/lets-honour-the-working-class-heroes-who-built-the-great-titanic-16006543.html#ixzz1OCWL6Mw0 ...	2nd June 2011
Monsters and Critics.com	NAT GEO'S BOB BALLARD TAKES US ON TWO DEEP SEA ADVENTURES JUNE 2 AND 3 Explorer Bob Ballard loves the sea and all its secrets and history. He was the man who first gave us intimate glimpses of the Titanic years ago, working in tandem with filmmaker James Cameron....	2nd June 2008
CBC.ca	HURRICANE HASTENS TITANIC WEDDING A young couple working on a research ship mapping the wreck of the Titanic celebrated their wedding aboard the vessel on Sunday....	1st September 2010
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
Isle of Man Today	A BOAT IN THE EVENING AT THE GAIETY THE Manx Operatic Society is working on one of the most expensive and challenging productions of its 60-year history. Titanic the Musical will be hitting the stage of the Gaiety Theatre in March, complete with custom sets and computer graphics to make the audience feel as if they are really on board the ship....	30th September 2008
New York Times	TWO MEN HURT ON OLYMPIC President Ismay Sails on Her to Return on New Titanic...	25th January 1912
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	HEADSTONE FOR TITANIC TEEN - 100 YEARS ON - BELFAST TELEGRAPH A teenager thought to have been the first victim of the Titanic has finally been given a headstone on his grave - more than 100 years after his death. Fifteen-year-old Samuel Scott fractured his skull while working on the ship in 1910 ......	1st August 2011
	DIE DREILINDEN, ESTATE OF THE SPENCERS The Dreilinden estate in Lucerne, Switzerland, was the property of the Spencer family. Also known as the 'Villa Vicovaro, it now houses the City's School of Music (Conservatoire). Miss Elise Lurette used to stay at the Dreilinden when she was working...
	1901 CENSUS - LISKEARD, CORNWALL The 1901 Census reveals that John Richard Jago Smith (aged 24) was living and working in Liskeard, Cornwall as a Post Office sorting & telegraph clerk....
	LAST CONTACT WITH TITANIC? Pete Morrall Was Jack Mew the last man to have contact with Titanic before she left Southampton?...
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC TEENAGER SAMUEL SCOTT GETS HEADSTONE - BBC NEWS A teenager thought to have been the first victim of the Titanic is finally to get a gravestone. Samuel Scott, 15, fractured his skull whilst working on the ship in 1910. His body has since lain in an unmarked grave in Belfast City Cemetery......	29th July 2011
	1901 CENSUS, WILLERSLEY, LEICESTERSHIRE At the time of the 1901 census Reginald, aged 21, was living at Willersley, Leicestershire and working as a footman. ...	31st March 1901
Hagerstown Morning Herald	TITANIC MODEL ON DISPLAY AT DISCOVERY STATION A working replica of the RMS Titanic was on display Tuesday during a fundraiser at Discovery Station at Hagerstown Inc. The model is a precise replica of the White Star liner that hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, taking the lives of more than 1,500 passengers....	4th December 2008
	DIE DREILINDEN, PROPERTY OF THE SPENCERS The Gardeners' Cottage...
BBC Northern Ireland	NOMADIC DOCKS AT THE ODYSSEY The SS Nomadic has been towed up the River Lagan and has been docked beside the Odyssey in Belfast harbour. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A welcome home ceremony which had been planned for the ship at the Odyssey for Monday had to be cancelled after a man working onboard the vessel died. The ship will remain at the Odyssey for the next two days before it is taken away for restoration. ...	19th July 2006
BBC News	MAN'S DEATH DELAYS NOMADIC HOMECOMING The homecoming ceremony for the SS Nomadic has been delayed after a man working on the boat at the Harland and Wolff shipyard collapsed and died. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. It had been planned that the boat would be towed up the River Lagan on Monday evening for a ceremony at the Odyssey complex. NIO Minister David Hanson said the event would now be held on Tuesday. ...	18th July 2006
	BRISTOW FAMILY INFORMATION Harry Bristow was a son of John Bristow and Mary Ann (nee Barnes). He was born in 1873 at the south Cornwall coastal town of East Looe in the part of the town known as Shutta. His father, John Bristow worked for British Railways and was born...
Ormskirk Advertiser	WALTER JAMES BROWN WALTER JAMES BROWN was 39 [sic] years old when he joined the crew of the Titanic as a First Class Saloon Steward. Before joining The White Star Lines, Brown worked for his older brother, William, in his grocery store on Moor Street in Ormskirk. Walte...	5th February 1998
Southern Daily Echo	DESIGNERS UNVEILED FOR SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM THE team that will design Southampton's £15m Titanic museum has been appointed. In a major step forward for the world-class tourist attraction, Southampton City Council has appointed award-winning architects Wilkinson Eyre....
	LETTER TO HIS SON FRANK, WRITTEN ON BOARD AND POSTED AT QUEENSTOWN Dear Frank, I hope that you got to Belfast all right and started work on time, I got your wire from Liverpool. We have made a good run from Southampton everything working A1, we nearly had a collision with the New York and Oceanic when ...	11th April 1912
	THOMAS HUGHES 1822-1896 (FATHER OF MRS. LILIAN CARTER) Lilian's father, Thomas Hughes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. He was a Liberal MP and barrister and spent much time promoting Working Men's Education and the Co-operative movement. He is most well known as author of 'Tom Brown's School...
suite101.com	RMS TITANIC: FAMOUS REPLICA OF LINER TO STAR IN 3D TITANIC - SUITE101.COM The replica of the famed, doomed, liner Titanic is going on a voyage. For 5 years part of a museum exhibit, it soon will be back working, on a 3D Titanic. Read more at Suite101: RMS Titanic: Famous Replica of Liner to Star in 3D Titanic...	22nd July 2011
New York Times	TITANIC SAILOR IN COURT Man Who Saved 45 Persons Says He Can't Support His Wife --- CHICAGO, Jan. 16---Albert Horswill, who said he was in charge of the last lifeboat to leave the Titanic, and saved forty-five women and children, told Judge Uhlir in court to-d...	17th January 1914
Irish Independent	'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR An Irish author and photographer, Don Mullan, is challenging the director and cast of the 1997 film Titanic to take care of the last living link to the 1912 maritime tragedy....	29th April 2009
	POSTWAR 1 EXQUISITE DÃ‰COR; in boldness of concept and beauty of design, the ebony and bronze stairway shown symbolizes the manner in which art and function have been blended in the Nieuw Amsterdam. Working hand-in-hand, Hollandâ€™s leading designe...
	PENGELLY (PENGILLY) FAMILY INFORMATION Frederick (Fred) William Pengelly was born in the parish of Calstock, East Cornwall in early 1893 whilst his father was working in the area as a mining engineer. Fred’s father, Frederick William Cardell Pengilly (sic) was born in 1861 ...
Southern Evening Echo	ARTICLE Titanic survivor 77-year-old Mr Lee James Hyland, of Sarnia Court, Boniface Crescent, Lordshill, Southampton who recalls Fred Allen a boy crew member mentioned in reference the playing of the Titanic Hymn. Allen, who lost his life in the disaster was...	24th November 1970
	HODGE FAMILY INFORMATION Charles Hodge (Snr. Asst. 3rd Engineer) was born in Plymouth, Devon in 1884. He was the son of Alfred and Emily Hodge. The 1891 census has the family living at 6 Princess Street in Plymouth and it was here that Charles' father ran his bakery ...
Mirror.co.uk	MAN HIT BY CURSE OF TITANIC THROWS BACK RELIC A man hit by the curse of the Titanic after stealing a piece of the sunken ship's hull has thrown it back into the sea....	17th April 2009
Irish Independent	'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR An Irish author and photographer, Don Mullan, is challenging the director and cast of the 1997 film Titanic to take care of the last living link to the 1912 maritime tragedy. Millvina Dean, at just nine weeks old, was the youngest passenger to be carried into the third class accommodation on the ship. Her father perished after saving his wife, young son and baby daughter and his body was never recovered. ...	26th April 2009
New York Times	BIGGER THAN THE LUSITANIA White Star Line Decides to Build Vessel---Speed to be 22 Knots --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Sept. 11---A Belfast correspondent telegraphs that Harland & Wolff have officially admitted that the...	12th September 1907
The Daily Banner	CUPID WINS OUT English Girl, Saved From Titanic, Weds In Hospital....	23rd April 1912
The Times	MR. BRUCE ISMAY "B. B. H." writes:--- As secretary for 13 years to a charitable fund for young people of which Mr. Ismay was chairman, I know something of the loss which has befallen us this week. One could not have wo...	21st October 1937
Surrey Advertiser and County Times	AN ASHTEAD VICTIM SAFE AGAINST ANYTHING BUT AN ICEBERG Another Surrey passenger on the Titanic was Mr. George H. Hunt, head-gardener at Ashtead Park. Mr. Hunt, who has for about four years been working in Philadelphia as head-gardener on a large estate, and who has a wife and two children living in that ...	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
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser	UNKNOWN TITLE The party of seven adults and four young children from Penzance were all bound to Akron. Mr. George Hocking, his mother (Mrs. Guy), who is a widow, and his sister, Miss Hocking, were of St Mary-street, and with them were Mrs. Emily Ri...	18th April 1912
Worksop Today	TITANIC SURVIVOR BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN CRESWELL CHURCHYARD AN AFTERNOON surfing on the internet led a Creswell woman to the discovery that a Titanic survivor, who died in the First World War, is believed to be buried in the village. Rita Williams, 63, of Wood Avenue, spotted the biography of Reginald Hardwick while surfing for stories about her village."I think this discovery is fantastic. It's really exciting, I have only had my computer a year. When I came across a Titanic survivor in Creswell, I passed it to my friends straight away," said Rita.Reginald is believed to have been working as a kitchen porter on board the ill-fated voyage of 1912 when the famous ship hit an iceberg.But he managed to escape on lifeboat 11. He was then taken on board the rescue ship Carpathia with other survivors which docked in New York....	22nd June 2006
Titanic Research	A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE Senan Molony THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study. There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain James...	13th October 2006
New York Times	LORD PIRRIE TO RETIRE His Harland & Wolff Interests Sold to Brown & Co., Report Says --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, March 13---It is reported from Belfast on good authority that Lord Pirrie has intimated his intention not o...	14th March 1912
Washington Times	DUE TO CARELESSNESS, SURVIVOR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 19---C. H. Stengle, one of the first passengers off the vessel, said that the collision of the Titanic with the iceberg was the result of "criminal carelessness." "The ship was going 22 knots an hour when she struck," h...	19th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	FILM STORY OF TITANIC SINKING GETS THE GREEN LIGHT LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD by Hedda Hopper Film Story of Titanic Sinking Gets the Green Light Hollywood, Feb. 22--Darryl Zanuck has given the green light to Charlie Brac...	22nd February 1952
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
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
The Toronto World	WIRELESS WORK ON A YACHT NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME --------------------- J. G. Phillips, Who Flashed the Signals of Distress From the Titanic, Talked Several Times to Two Local Wireless Operators While Working on the Great Lakes Boat and Told of His Am...	17th April 1912
	ABOUT MARY MCGOVERN AS TOLD BY A RELATIVE Date of Birth: April 1890 Place of Birth Clarbally, Corlough Co. Cavan, Ireland Mary was making the trip to New York alone, traveling by train from Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim to Queenstown to board the Titanic. Her ticket cost 7 po...
	INFORMATION ABOUT JOHN JAMES BOREBANK Borebank, Mr. John. J. Missing. First Class Passenger. Cabin D22/1. Occupation - Horticulturist, c/o Lodges of the World, Winnipeg, Canada. Real Estate agent. Left Winnipeg in the Spring of 1911 for the Coronation of King George V. Then was re...
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
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
Khaleej Times	THE TITANIC AND THE SINKING OF HEARTS I know I wouldn't have been half as moved by the news of Millvina's death at a ripe old age had it not been for Cameron's Titanic. ...	4th June 2009
	GENERAL INFORMATION Hodge, Charles. WAS twenty-nine years of age, and held a second engineer's certificate. His birthplace was Devonport. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Davey, Sleep & Co., of Plymouth. He had been in the service of the White St...
	PARSONS FAMILY INFORMATION Edward Parsons (Chief Storekeeper) was born in Barnstaple, North Devon in 1875. He was the son of James Hill Parsons and Rebecca. One of 6 children his siblings were Edith (b.1865 Bradworthy, Devon), Richard (b.1868 Exeter, Devon), James (b. ...
Titanic Review	E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC Brian J. Ticehurst THIS is Gary Coopers second book on the RMS Titanic's Captain. His first book The Man Wh...	5th May 2009
The Toronto World	WIRELESS FLASHES HEARD BY TWO TORONTO OPERATORS ------------------------- Messages Sent by Ports Along the Atlantic Seaboard Are Often Caught at (sic) Local Station if the Night is Clear---Tapping of the Instrument Decipherable at T...	17th April 1912
	MR BENJAMIN HOWARD & MRS ELLEN HOWARD Marion James Mr & Mrs Benjamin HOWARD On researching Benjamin Howard and his wife Ellen Howard who both perished, their bodies were never found. I have been able to locate some details about them and their family members....
Elizabeth Daily Journal	ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC [Links to the earlier parts of this article can be found on the summary pages for the members of the Renouf/Jefferys family and the Carter family.] Among those who visited the White Star steamship offices in New York to-day in an endea...	16th April 1912
The Evening Telegram	HAD LETTER LAST FRIDAY Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	WIDOW SUES TITANIC OWNERS Mrs. A. Willer of Chicago Asks $10,000 for Husband’s Death Family Left Penniless Red Cross Saves Them fr...	20th July 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press	MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST ---------- Continued to Work Till Explosion Rent Titanic---Wife is Critically Ill ---------- Among the five postal clerks who stuck to their mail to the last and sank with it when ...	22nd April 1912
	PRIDEAUX FAMILY INFORMATION John Arthur Prideaux (k/a Jack) was born at Southampton, Hampshire on 24 April 1888 at a house in Victoria Road, Woolston. He was the son of John Davey Prideaux and Annie Elizabeth (formerly Slade). His father, originally from Teignmouth, Dev...
	WONNACOTT FAMILY INFORMATION Dorothy Wonnacott was born in Plymouth in 1885. She was a daughter of Arscott and Mary Jane Wonnacott. Her parents, both originally from the Holsworthy area of mid-Devon had married in about 1878 and were living in Plymouth from that time....
New York Times	WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK *** --- TWO YOUNG MEN'S HEROISM --- Woman Tells How Roebling and Case Saved Her---Others' Tribute to Dead --- Among the chivalrous younger heroes of the Titanic disaster were Washington A. Roebling, 2d, of Tr...	20th April 1912
Chicago Daily News	LINER PARISIAN ASSISTS IN TASK Another liner, the Parisian, of the Allan company, which sailed from Glasgow for Halifax April 6, is close at hand and assisting in the work of rescue. The Baltic and Virginian also are near the scene and the Olympic apparently ...	15th April 1912
Sheffield Telegraph	TITANIC MISSION ACHIEVED IT was a Titanic job but Sheffield Forgemasters rose to the occasion The engineering company created an exact replica of the ill-fated ships anchor at its Brightside Lane base for a new TV series called Titanic The Mission....	25th October 2010
The Witney Gazette	TITANIC SURVIVORS' STORIES ON ARRIVAL AT PLYMOUTH One hundred and sixty-seven survivors of the crew of the Titanic landed at Plymouth on Sunday from the Red Star liner Lapland. They told a large number of full and graphic stories of the disaster. One of the chief facts brought to light i...	4th May 1912
	PENNAL FAMILY INFORMATION Thomas Frederick Pennal (to use his full and correct names) was known as Frederick and because of uncertainty with his surname, for example, he appears on the Titanic Engagement Sheet as F. Pumal (Ref. No 178, 1st Class Victualling Dept.) he has unti...
	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...
	JOHN QUINN: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY John Quinn was born in Belfast on 3rd March 1876 the son of a shoemaker, he was one of ...
War Cry	SALVATIONISTS ON THE TITANIC: TWO RESCUED - Mother spends five hours on raft and sees sons drown - Died Like true Soldiers Commissioner Eva Booth Meets Survivors Indescribably Pathetic Scenes at Wharf - New York Stricken with Grief - Army Shelt...	27th April 1912
Antioch News	WIFE CAN'T COLLECT DAMAGES Mrs. Elsbury, Wife of Titanic Victim, Unable to Collect Damages for Death VICTIM LIVED AT GURNEE Attorney Finds That Amount for Which Co. is Liable is Insignificant; Will Receive only Fare Paid Mrs. Jam...	1st January 1913
	LETTER FROM CAPTAIN SMITH'S WIDOW Woodhead Winn Road Southampton Telephone 1400 Dear Frank, I'm sorry to be so long in answering your letter and picture of your family which I am pleased to have. What a lovely outlook from your home. By the "Olympi...	6th June 1912
Connaught Telegraph	THE TITANIC DISASTER, DUE TO EXCESSIVE SPEED Lord Mersey, the specially appointed Commissioner of Wrecks to enquire into the loss of the White Star Liner Titanic, on Tuesday delivered the finding of the Court. The attendance at the London-Scottish Hall, Westminster, where the in...	3rd August 1912
	PASCOE FAMILY INFORMATION Charles was born on the 18 March 1867 in the village of Breage, a few miles west of Helston in south-west Cornwall. He was baptised at the parish church on 18 August 1867 and was the son of Anthony and Jane Anne Pascoe. (The 1881 UK census shows his...
New York Times	ALARM FROM LOOKOUT IGNORED, SAILOR SAYS Officer on Titanic's Bridge Had Warning of the Iceberg from the Crow's Nest. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow's nest to the officers on the bridge of the doome...	21st April 1912
	WHAT REALLY SANK THE LUSITANIA NYI, the following lot is among the highlights in Swann's Sept 15 auction of the Eric C. Caren Collection: Sale 2253 Lot 309 WHAT REALLY SANK THE LUSITANIA? (STEAMSHIPS.) John Brown ...	30th August 2011
New York Sun	NOTED STYLIST DIES IN LONDON Lady Duff Gordon Designed Fashions for Royalty...	22nd April 1935
New York Times	BUYER FINDS TRADE IN GERMANY STIFLED E. P. Calderhead Say Factories There Are Crippled Because They Lack Materials --- ALL PRICES HAVE ADVANCED --- Berlin Streets, Cafes, and Hotels Deserted---Factory Workers in France Are Men Over 70 --- A repo...	23rd April 1915
New York Times	CHARLES G. ROEBLING, BRIDGE BUILDER., DIES Engineer and Philanthropist, Head of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. Expires in Trenton at 69 --- Charles Gustavus Roebling, millionaire philanthropist and engineer, who, with his brother, Washington Augustus Roebling, completed the constru...	6th October 1918
The Times	PIRRIE HONOURED FOR SERVICE AS LORD MAYOR BELFAST, DEC. 14.To-night a banquet was given to the Right Hon. W. J. Pirrie, J.P., Lord Mayor of Belfast, and Mrs. Pirrie by the citizens on the occasion of the approaching termination of the second year of Mr. Pirri...	15th December 1897