Encyclopedia Titanica

Jason D. Tiller

Member and Contributor since August 2000

Jason D. Tiller

Jason Tiller's interests are other ships and ship disasters, sports, the paranormal, music...just to name a few. His research has focused on the Canadian passengers that were aboard the Titanic and is currently writing a full scale biography on the life and times of Lt. Colonel Arthur G. Peuchen, who was a first class passenger.

The Titan Submersible Tragedy
Added 20th July 2023
The story of the Titan and a tragic accident at the Titanic wreck site...
THE TITAN SUBMERSIBLE TRAGEDY
Ghostly Tales from the Titanic
Added 27th May 2023
Spooky tales related to the Titanic and her people....
GHOSTLY TALES FROM THE TITANIC
Toronto's Titanic Survivors
We all know that the R.M.S. Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on April 10th, 1912 bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, and that she struck an iceberg on Apri...
TORONTO'S TITANIC SURVIVORS
Nearer My God, To Thee, Is Musicians' Prayer
Added 21st March 2022
Those on the Titanic Played It Knowing Their End Was Close at Hand...
No Red Tape over Bodies of Victims
Added 21st March 2022
What customs formalities would be exacted in regard to the admission of bodies recovered from the Titanic....
Silent Toast to Major Butt.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 23.---A silent toast to Major Archibald Butt was drunk last night by the Second Company Governor's Foot Guard, one of the historic military organizations of the State, at its annual observance of the anniversary of the depa...
Major Peuchen and a Star reporter
Major A. G. Peuchen on his arrival in Toronto, after his rescue from the Titanic.  He is facing the reader, and was snapped as he was about to enter an automobile....
MAJOR PEUCHEN AND A STAR REPORTER
Major Peuchen and his family
Left to Right: Mr. Alan Peuchen, Mrs Peuchen, Major Peuchen, Miss Jessie Peuchen.When the New York Central Express was stalled a few miles outside Hamilton for two hours Saturday on account of a wreck ahead, Major Peuchen and h...
MAJOR PEUCHEN AND HIS FAMILY
A Glad Homecoming : Titanic Survivor Major Peuchen
Major Peuchen, his wife, daughter and son, as they stepped from the train at the Union Station Saturday....
A GLAD HOMECOMING : TITANIC SURVIVOR MAJOR PEUCHEN
Carpathia wireless operator Harold Cottam
Wireless Operator on the "Carpathia," who "Providentially" Caught the 'Titanic's Distress Call.'...
CARPATHIA WIRELESS OPERATOR HAROLD COTTAM
Harold Bride
One of the Titanic Wireless Operators Who Escaped and Who Testified Before the Investigation Committee on Saturday....
HAROLD BRIDE
The Second Officer
LIGHTHOLDER [sic]The man who directed Major Peuchen to enter the Titanic lifeboat.  Telling of his own escape before the Senate Inquiry, he was asked:"Did you leave the ship?"...
THE SECOND OFFICER
Tots Saved From the Sea
These two handsome little boys, who are at the home of Miss Margaret Hays, are one of the mysteries of the Titanic disaster.  These small boys were rescued as the big liner was foundering.  They speak French fluently, and they know what their firs...
TOTS SAVED FROM THE SEA
EATON'S DAILY STORE NEWS
THE STORE WILL CLOSE AT 1 P.M. TO-DAYAS A TOKEN OF OUR SORROW and sympathy with the widow, family and friends of the late Mr. George E. Graham, and as a mark of honor [sic] and respect for his heroic end on t...
How Maj. Peuchen Escaped.
I said: Are you a sailor? and he replied that he was a yachtsman. Then I told him that if he was a sailor to get over the bulwarks to the lifeboat--to go ahead. He did, and proved himself afterward...
MAJOR PEUCHEN BLAMES CAPTAIN WHO WENT DOWN WITH HIS SHIP
Loss of Titanic, He Says, Was Due to Criminal Carelessness in Running at Full Speed Thru the Ice With a New Crew--Capt. Smith Was Having His Dinner When Crash Came--Major Peuchen Left in Third Boat, Which Had Only 22 People and Could Have...
THINGS THAT ISMAY DID NOT OBSERVE
Bruce Ismay on the stand before senate investigating committee:"I saw no passengers in sight when I entered the lifeboat.""I did not see what happened to the lifeboats."...
G.E. Graham
Newspaper image...
G.E. GRAHAM
JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER
Canadian Press DespatchNew York, April 19.---Col Gracie, U. S. A. who was the sole survivor of those who went down with the Titanic, and was rescued, gave this remarkable statement last night:...
LAST MAN TO LEAVE TITANIC WAS COLONEL GRACIE, U.S.A.
-------------------Was in That Last Awful Swirl That Followed When MonsterSank------Came to Surface After a...
MAJOR'S DAUGHTER REMINDS HIM THAT IT'S HIS BIRTHDAY
Jessie Peuchen Listened to Father's Graphic Story, ThenWished Him Many ReturnsHOW THE MAJOR TOLD HIS ENTRALLING TALE...
Titanic stood on end before she sank
Lights all blazed until she took a vertical position....
Heroic Conduct of a Ship’s Officer
Added 31st March 2022
H. Lowe Saves Many Lives of Passengers in Boat...
C. M. Hays' Career
When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer.  Mr. Hays had been in ...
GILT-EDGED STOCKS AFFECTED BY DISASTER
Canadian Press DespatchLondon, April 16.---The disaster to the Titanic caused a slight weakness to-day in glit edged securities on the stock exchange on sales by underwriters. The International Mercantile Marine shar...
Royalty's Deep Sympathy
-------London, April 16. (Can Press.) ---King George has sent the following message to the White Star Co.:"The Queen and I are horrified at the appaling disaster which has happened to the Tita...
SHOCK WAS FATAL
BOISSEVAIN, Man., April 16---J. P. Alexander, ex M. L. A. dropped dead today when told of the Titanic disaster. He was troubled with heart disease. ...
SOUTHAMPTON TOWN OF MOURNING
SOUTHAMPTON, April 16.---Distressing scenes have been witnessed thruout the morning at the White Star offices here, which have been thronged by the relatives of the crew of the Titanic.  The town is absolutely stunned by the news of t...
THREE MONTREAL MEN---VICTIMS OF TITANIC TRAGEDY
Article recalls Hudson Allison, Thornton Davidson, Harry Markland Molson......
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 Tim...
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 Ambi...
Charles Lydiatt
Steward on Board Titanic, and Brother of Sergeant Lydiatt of Toronto Police Force....
CHARLES LYDIATT
George Graham : AGONIZED WAITING IN TORONTO FOR THE SHIP THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT
A husband nearing home, a wife receiving with joy the message that assured her of her husband's welfare. Then the news which has been received with deepest sadness by the whole world......
HAD LETTER LAST FRIDAY
BROTHER STEWARD ON TITANIC : Charles Lydiatt Had Been Steward on Every Boat on White Star Line : Brother Waiting for News...
HAD SIXTEEN LIFEBOATS
peaking about the lifeboat equipment of the Titanic, Mr. H. G. Thorley, the Toronto agent of the White Star Line, said the steamer had eight boats of the most modern character...
HAYS MAY BE SAFE
Newspaper article...
HUGO ROSS WAS ABOARD
Newspaper article...
J. Borebank Known Here
Passenger on Titanic Was Born in Toronto and Lived Here Most of His Life...
Major A. G. Peuchen, Toronto
Cabin Passenger on Titanic...
MAJOR A. G. PEUCHEN, TORONTO
Major Peuchen : AGONIZED WAITING IN TORONTO FOR THE SHIP THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT
Major Arthur G. Peuchen, 599 Jarvis street, whose name appears in the list of survivors, is well known in business and military circles in Toronto....
Many Canadians on Fated Steamer
Added 23rd March 2022
Noted People From America and the Old Country on First Trip of the Giant Vessel Which Sank in the Atlantic....
MANY CANADIANS ON FATED STEAMER
THORNTON DAVIDSON
Newspaper image...
THORNTON DAVIDSON
WON'T AFFECT STOCK MARKET
Even John Jacob Astor is Not a Power in Financial World......
World’s Largest Vessel Founders on Her Maiden Voyage
Added 31st March 2022
Loss of Life is Estimated at Eighteen Hundred...
List of Rescued Includes Mr. Hays
Added 31st March 2022
White Star People Say the Hays Party is Safe....
The Hundred-TN Rudder of the Titanic
Added 14th April 2022
The Titanic is a sister vessel of the White Star Liner Olympic, and will be ready for use late in the year.She is 45,000 tons register and 882 1⁄2 feet long, and 92 1⁄2 feet broad....
THE HUNDRED-TN RUDDER OF THE TITANIC
Monster Liner was Launched at Belfast
Added 14th April 2022
Vessel 882 Feet Long and 45,000 Tons Register Takes to Water...

Robertha Josephine Watt

Robertha Josephine Watt
2nd Class Passenger

Anthony Wood Frost

Anthony Wood Frost
2nd Class Passenger

John Collins

John Collins
Engineering Crew

Arthur Godfrey Peuchen

Arthur Godfrey Peuchen
1st Class Passenger

Albert Adrian Dick

Albert Adrian Dick
1st Class Passenger

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