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Monsters and Critics.com (2008) 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  
Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Advertiser (1912) 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 (2008) 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  
  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....
   
  (1901) 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  
Metro (2006) TITANIC FASCINATION GETS SOME STICK
Friday, June 2, 2006 It may be called Titanic, but Mark Colling never had a sinking feeling about his 7m model of the ship after building it out of more than 5million matchsticks. The father-of-four has just smashed the world ...
2nd June 2006  
Hagerstown Morning Herald (2008) 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
This picture shows the Gardeners' Cottage at the Dreilinden. 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 Elis...
   
BBC Northern Ireland (2006) 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  
  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...
   
BBC News (2006) 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  
Ormskirk Advertiser (1998) 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  
  (1912) 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  
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 Ey...
   
  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...
   
New York Times (1914) 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 (2009) 'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR
By ALISON O'RIORDANSunday April 26 2009An 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  
  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 (1970) 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 (2009) 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.Mike Gilpin, 49, took the relic from divers nine years ago while working at a dock.Since then his life has ...
17th April 2009  
Irish Independent (2009) 'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR
By Alison O'RiordanSunday April 26 2009An 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. ...
26th April 2009  
New York Times (1907) 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 (1912) CUPID WINS OUT
New York April 23. Sarah Roth a survivor of the Titanic disaster, was married to Daniel M. Iles in St. Vincent's hospital and the happiness of the bride and bridegroom made many men and women who are being cared for in St. Vincent's feel cheerful...
23rd April 1912  
Surrey Advertiser and County Times (1912) 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  
The Times (1937) 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  
  (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 (1912) 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 (2006) TITANIC SURVIVOR BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN CRESWELL CHURCHYARD
22 June 2006 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, spott...
22nd June 2006  
ET Research (2006) A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE
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 (1912) 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 (1912) 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  
New York Times (1912) 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 (1912) 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 (1912) 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...
   
Rutherford Republican (1912) 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 (1912) MRS. CANDEE LAUDS MAJ. BUTT’S HEROISM
"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  
Khaleej Times (2009) THE TITANIC AND THE SINKING OF HEARTS
Like most people of my generation - and I suspect many people of generations before and after me - the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 was etched definitively on my mind thanks largely to director James Cameron.When Titanic re...
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. ...
   
ET Reviews (2009) E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC
THIS is Gary Coopers second book on the RMS Titanic's Captain. His first book The Man Wh...
5th May 2009  
The Toronto World (1912) 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
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 (1912) 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 (1912) HAD LETTER LAST FRIDAY
BROTHER STEWARD ON TITANIC Charles Lydiatt Had Been Steward on Every Boat on White Star Line--Brother Waiting for News "Only last Friday Sergeant George Lydiatt, of No. 4 Police Stat...
16th April 1912  
Asbury Park Evening Press (1912) 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...
   
New York Times (1912) 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  
  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....
   
Chicago Daily News (1912) 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  
The Witney Gazette (1912) 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 (1912) 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 (1913) 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  
  (1912) 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 (1912) 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 (1912) 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  
New York Sun (1935) NOTED STYLIST DIES IN LONDON
London, April 22 - Lady Duff Gordon, for thirty years directress of the noted dress firm Lucile, with branches in New York, London, Paris and Chicago, and an innovator in feminine apparel, died yesterday in a London nursing home, following an illness...
22nd April 1935  
New York Times (1915) 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  
 

 
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