1908

My new art piece of depicting how the Olympic would've looked like with Design D, but with an added main mast (the aft mast)...

Hello, how different are the portholes of the 1908 D design, I ask because I'm tempted to do it using a Titanic model. I'm guessing it's quite different from the real ships since the cabins didn't had the corridors with portholes. source: Original General Arrangement plan (1908) -...

The Evening Post, Wellington, 20 May 1908 Retrieved from the National Library of New Zealand web site, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home FIRE ON THE IONIC --- ANOTHER FLAX OUTBREAK --- ANXIOUS TIME FOR OFFICERS AND SEAMEN --- PROSPECTS OF GETTING FIRE...

The Times, 15 July 1909 PROBATE, DIVORCE, AND ADMIRALTY DIVISION --- (Before MR. JUSTICE BARGRAVE DEANE, sitting with two of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House.) --- THE CELTIC --- Passenger Liner in Collision --- This action was brought by the owners of the steamship Moorhen...

MAB note: To the extent that this article says that Jennings spent two and a half years on the Hong Kong-San Francisco route, it's wrong. He only took Oceanic I on her first two transpacific roundtrips in 1875, and then returned to the North Atlantic. The Evening Post, Wellington, 16...

Boston Daily Globe, 11 June 1908 ESTABLISHES TRAINING SHIP --- White Star Line Undertakes to Fit Young Men to Become Officers in Mercantile Marine --- Plans for a training ship to fit young men to be officers in the mercantile marine have been completed by the White Star line of...

The Times, 17 June 1909 PROBATE, DIVORCE, AND ADMIRALTY DIVISION --- (Before Mr. JUSTICE BARGRAVE DEANE, sting with two of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House) --- THE TROPIC --- Collision with a White Star Liner --- This action was brought by the Argonaut Steam Navigation...

Does it seem possible to anyone that the staterooms shown on the website below were on the Rotterdam IV, and not the Olympic or Titanic? To view them, please go to the following link and scroll down to the bottom: http://www.dkb.nl/mutters/geschmutters_US.htm (For the sake of avoiding...

The Times, 11 December 1908 LAUNCH OF A WHITE STAR LINER --- BELFAST, DEC. 10 --- In the presence of a large gathering of spectators Messrs. Harland and Wolff to-day launched the steamship Megantic, sister ship to the Laurentic, and the latest addition to the White Star Dominion...

A few days late, but better late than never? The New York Times, 27 November 1908 SUNK IN FOG, 4 PERSONS DROWN --- Panama Boat Finance on the Bottom in 15 Minutes After Collision with Georgic --- SINKS IN SHIP CHANNEL --- Captain with Drawn Revolver Saving the Boats for Women and...

The Times, 11 September 1908 LAUNCH OF THE LAURENTIC --- The Laurentic, the first of two new steamers to be built and equipped by Messrs. Harland and Wolff (Limited) for the White Star Line Dominion service was successfully launched yesterday from the south yard in the presence of a...

The New York Times, 4 February 1908 15 LOST FROM BURNING SHIP --- The Cymric Saves Capt. Lewis and 36 Men from the St. Cuthbert Off Cape Sable --- WIRELESS TO THE TIMES --- Dispatches from the Cymric, Five Hundred Miles Away, Describe the Rescue --- FIRE STARTS ON SUNDAY --- The...

The New York Times, 27 January 1908 SKIPPER DIES AT SEA --- Capt. Kidwell of the Freighter Georgic a Victim of Pneumonia The death and burial at sea of Capt. Thomas Kidwell of the White Star line freighter Georgic, was reported when that vessel arrived yesterday from Liverpool. The...

Hi, Some help needed here. Does anyone know what is the number of pages and illustrations in the complete article "A Trip on the Two Largest Ships" by F. N Doubleday from the 1908 World's Works Magazine? Thank you for your time. Every good wish, Eric Longo

Thanks to everyone who has given us infor on our Lightoller book! We also have 3 White Star Line passenger brochure books - First Class and Second Class for S.S. Cymric and Republic, dated 1908. One for S.S. Republic shows R.L. Barker was Purser there also. All in very good condition and at...