Senan Molony

STANLEY LORD IN CONVERSATION WITH LESLIE HARRISON
Extracts from a conversation between Captain Stanley Lord and Leslie Harrison, held on 19 August 1961....

 

THREE GRACES, SHANGHAI
The Three Graces on the Bund in Shanghai, China, were modelled on the originals on the waterfront in Liverpool by wealthy Western businessmen and developers who began to commercialise China from the late 1880s onwards. The m...

 

THOMAS WHITELEY CONVALESCING IN NEW YORK
Thomas Whiteley at St Vincent's Hospital in New York...

 

THOMAS WHITELEY : THREE WARNINGS WERE GIVEN TO THE OFFICER ON THE BRIDGE
Thomas Whiteley, Tells of Hearing Men Who Were in Crows Nest Express Indignation Because Mr. Murdock, the First Officer, Repeatedly Refused to Act on Their Report of Danger. ...

 

STEWARD'S PREMONITION : THOMAS WHITELEY
Mr. Thomas Whiteley, a steward on the Titanic, who was saved.  He states that the two men in the crow's nest, who were rescued, were very indignant, and said that their warnings concerning the presence of an iceberg ...

 

THOMAS WHITELEY : ANOTHER TITANIC CASE
In Mr Justice Darling's court yesterday Mr [W. Norman] Raeburn on behalf of the defendants in Whiteley v. Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (Limited), asked that a date should be fixed for the hearing. He said that the plaintiff, who was a ...

 

ERNEST GILL

 

GEORGE FRANCIS MCGOUGH

 

NORA FLEMING PHOTOGRAPH
Photograph of Irish steerage passenger Nora Fleming, one of 14 third class passengers from the village of Addergoole, Co Mayo, who boarded the Titanic at Queenstown. It was Nora's 22nd birthday on the night the vessel struck ...

 

PRONUNCIATION OF "ROTHES"
DEBRETT’S PEERAGE, 1915   ROTHES, EARL OF (Leslie) [Title pronounced “Roth-ez.”]   Norman Evelyn Leslie, 19th Earl and a Represen...

 

HARRY ELKINS WIDENER MEMORIAL
Wall plaque at the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Harry Elkins Widener A Graduate Of This University Born January 3, 1885 Died At Sea April 15, 1912 ...

 

HARRY ELKINS WIDENER LIBRARY
Exterior, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Endowed by his mother Eleanor, and opened in 1915....

 

DICKINSON H. BISHOP

 

JOSEPH BOXHALL CARTOON

 

CAPTAIN LORD AND OFFICERS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON

 

STANLEY LORD AT THE WHEEL

 

CAPTAIN LORD WITH OFFICERS OF A LATER COMMAND.
Captain Stanley Lord (centre) of the Californian pictured with officers of a later command....

 

CAPTAIN STANLEY LORD AND HIS WIFE IN THEIR CAR
Stanley Lord at the wheel of a car accompanied by his wife Mabel...

 

LORD SURROUNDED BY GRINNING PASSENGERS
Captain Stanley Lord surrounded by grinning passengers, c. 1909...

 

CAPTAIN LORD'S CHART COMPASS

 

CAPTAIN STANLEY LORD

 

CAPTAIN LORD IN SUMMER WHITES ABOARD A LEYLAND LINER

 

FIELD ICE PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE MORNING OF APRIL 15, 1912,
Ice seen in the general vicinity of the Titanic sinking. Photographed by Dr Marloth, ship's surgeon aboard the NDL Frankfurt....

 

RUSSIANS TO THE RESCUE –- ICEFIELD DESCRIBED
SS. Birma (off Dover), Monday, April 22. We left New York in the Birma, of the Russian East Asiatic Com­pany, on Thursday afternoon, the 11th inst., bound for Rotterdam and Libau (Russia), in s...

 

EUGENE DALY - BY HIS DAUGHTER
Eugene Daly with his wife Lil and their only child Marion (Mary) in 1929. Mary is now a widow, living in Missouri....

 

GRAVESTONE OF EUGENE DALY
EUGENE DALY'S gravestone in St Raymond's cemetery, the Bronx. The Titanic survivor, a 'beloved father and grandfather' is said to be "safely home at last." Died October 30, 1965.     ...

 

MEMORIAL CARD FOR EUGENE DALY

 

EUGENE DALY WITH PIPES, 1910
Eugene Daly as a member of the Irish National Foresters band, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, 1910. Contributor's collection. ...

 

EUGENE DALY AND GRANDSON
Eugene Daly, in the last years of his life, with his grandson Brendan and family pet....

 

TITANIC NEWS VENDORS IN WASHINGTON D.C.
Washington news vendors at the time of the Titanic disaster. Headline to The Washington Post:   Mission of two United States cruisers fails; ...

 

DR HENRY FRAUENTHAL
ONE OF TITANIC SURVIVORS Dr Henry W. Frauenthal, noted New York Surgeon and head of the Hospital for Deformative and Joint Diseases, of which he was one of the organisers. He was a native of Wilkes-Barre and recently went to Europ...

 

SURVIVOR FROM “TITANIC”
A Newhaven A.B. Who Has Faced Many Perils of the Deep Mr Will Clifford Weller, who was an able...

 

THESE TWO MEN JUMPED OVERBOARD JUST BEFORE TITANIC SANK; ALL LIGHTS LIT WHEN SHE FOUNDERED
Special Dispatch to the Herald...

 

ANOTHER ADDED TO LIST OF LOST IS ALBERT MALLET, A TRAVELLER
MONTREAL, April 20.- The disaster to the Titanic was brought poignantly home to Montrealers today by the arrival in the city of some of the Montreal survivors. At ten o'clock yesterday morning a special train pulled into the Grand Trunk st...

 

MOUNT TEMPLE (1)

 

WILLIAM HARBECK WITH MOVIE CAMERA
Well known in Calgary, who is said to have been on the Titanic. Mr Harbeck was engaged, it is said, to take a series of pictures of the Titanic's first voyage. He took many pictures in Alberta in connection with C.P.R. advertising. ...

 

LAURELS ON STEAD'S OCEAN GRAVE
The Franconia stopped on Sunday over the place where the Titanic went down, whilst wreaths of laurel, picked in the garden of the late Mr Stead, were cast to the sea. ...

 

ANNIE ROBINSON ABOARD "GALATEA" IN 1913; CONVERSATION WITH KING AND QUEEN
The spectacle on which their Majesties looked when they embarked on the Galatea, the dock port tender, was indeed unparalleled. There never has been such an assembly of merchant vessels in review order before. The mere statistics are asto...

 

FILM ATLANTIC - ACTRESS INJURED IN RECREATION OF TITANIC SCENES
Court of Appeal Actress's claim under Workmen's Compensation Act Armour v. British International Pictures Ltd. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Slesser and Lord Justice...

 

ECHO OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
Action in the French courts Nice, February 9th (1914). An action against the White Star Line arising out of the loss of the Titanic began today before the Civil Court here. The Plaintiff, Mme Navr...

 

BELFAST FIREMAN'S FORTUNATE ESCAPE
The story of a fireman's fortunate escape from sailing in the ill-fated White Star liner Titanic was told yesterday in the Belfast Custody Court, when, before Sir Andrew Newton-Brady, RM, [Resident Magistrate] Patrick Morgan...

 

CAPTAIN E. J. SMITH MEMORIAL
A committee has been formed for the purpose of arranging for the erection of a suitable memorial to the late Commander Edward John Smith RNR, the Captain of the Titanic. It is proposed that it should take the two-fold form of ...

 

BIRTH CERT OF KATE'S DAUGHTER ELLEN

 

KATE PHILLIPS' DAUGHTER'S STORY (CONCEIVED ON TITANIC CLAIM)
Submitted by Senan Molony...

 

KATE PHILLIPS AND HER DAUGHTER ELLEN

 

HENRY MORLEY

 

FRANK DWAN TITANIC MEMORIAL
Memorial to Titanic third class passenger Frank Dwan at Bunmahon, Co Waterford, Ireland....

 

MORGUE PHOTO OF WENDLA MARIA HEININEN
Wendla Maria Heininen (body number 8) in the morgue on Agricola Street, Halifax, NS....

 

ISMAY YACHT TORPEDOED!
(Photo: HM Torpedo Boat Hunter) Action against a Naval Officer The hearing was begun on Saturday before His Honour Judge Percy Gye and a jury, at the Isle of Wight County Court, of an action broug...

 

A COMPARISON WITH THE TITANIC
Much the most interesting of the personal statements given in answer to questions was made to me by William Clarke, a fireman of Liverpool - actually a survivor of the Titanic disaster - a quiet, matter-of-fact old man with a grey moustache and...

 

WILLIAM CLARK : FLIRTING WITH DEATH
If ever a fireman bore a charmed life it is Fireman William Clark, of the ill-fated liner Empress of Ireland. An insatiable thirst for adventure has carried him all over the world. He has heard the thunder of big guns on the wa...

 

FREDERICK TAMLYN
Courtesy of Senan Molony...

 

BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE
A letter from Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall to the President of the Board of Trade, Sydney Buxton, written in July 1912 while Boxhall was serving aboard the Adriatic. Boxhall complained about the fees paid to...

 

THE GOLDSMITH FAMILY, CIRCA 1911
Frank Goldsmith Snr, his wife Emily, Frank Junior, and the baby that died before the family embarked on the Titanic....

 

FIREMAN KILLED WIFE
Western Assizes William Mintram, 33, a mariner, was tried for the wilful murder of Eliza May Rose Mintram, his wife, at Southampton, on October 18th [1902]. Mr Evans Austin, and Mr G. L. Craik appeared for...

 

FIRE ABOARD THE "CALIFORNIAN"
A telegram from Vera Cruz reports that the Leyland liner "Californian" took fire in that port and that the outbreak was not extinguished until much damage had been done to the cargo by fire and water. The fire originated in holds number four...

 

LIGHTOLLER'S 'SUNDOWNER' IN LIFEBOAT EMERGENCY
Search for 60ft Cabin Cruiser Shipping asked to keep look-out All shipping in the Channel and North Sea has been asked to keep a look-out for the 60ft cabin cruiser "Sundowner," with eight people on board, which Margate ...

 

BBC DENY TITANIC RADIO PLAY TO BE BROADCAST
BBC and the Titanic Disaster A formal statement contradicting the reports published in some newspapers (not the Daily Express) to the effect that the BBC intended to broadcast a play based...

 

SID DANIELS IN WW1
The only man who had not been to the front - and he was very angry that he had not - was an Army Service Corps man, who had driven up a Lewisham contingent in a motor-omnibus. He, to make up for having no fighting, was a survivor from the T...

 

AROUND THE WORLD IN A YACHT [ADVERTISEMENT]
Commander C. H. Lightoller, DSC, RD, RNR, and Mrs Lightoller are inviting ladies and gentlemen to join in a ten months cruise on their 3,000-ton motor sailing yacht "Westward." Sailing end of October, visiting West Indies, South Sea islands an...

 

THE SEA MESSENGER
THE SEA MESSENGER The little vessel represented in our illustration has been invented by Mr J. A. R. Vandenbergh of Portsmouth (Eng.), to be freighted with letters and papers belonging to any ship in danger of foundering at sea, or in ...

 

WEXFORD MAN'S DAUGHTER MARRIED TITANIC PURSER
Barbara Ennis, was married to Mr Hugh McElroy, later Titanic purser...

 

A TRADE THAT HAS BEEN BOOMING SINCE THE TITANIC DISASTER
‘ILL BLOWS THE WIND THAT PROFITS NOBODY’ The Titanic disaster has created an unprecedented demand for lifeboats, and we now seem to be in danger of placing too much reliance on this system of life-saving. Meanwhile these are busy times...

 

DANIEL BUCKLEY AS US INFANTRYMAN
Titanic survivor Daniel Buckley in the uniform and puttees of the United States Army. Buckley fought and died in World War One, and is now buried in his home town of Ballydesmond, Co. Cork, Ireland. Titanic crewman Sid Daniels also fought i...

 

EMILY RICHARDS AND SONS
Emily Richards and the two sons who were with her on the Titanic....

 

WW1 LETTER FROM THE FRONT - BY DANIEL BUCKLEY
A letter to his mother from US infantryman Daniel Buckley, originally from Co. Cork, Ireland. Buckley was killed a month before the end of the war. He served with Company K of the 165th US Infantry, and wrote copious missive, some of ...

 

ELINOR GLIN ON HER SISTER LADY DUFF GORDON'S TITANIC ORDEAL
One of a series of pages illustrating a detailed article by Elinor Glin, one of the "It" Girls, relating to the Titanic ordeal and the experiences and attitudes of those it involved. Elinor's sister, Lady Duff Gordon, was prominently saved with...

 

HUTCHINSON - BODY 170 (UNIDENTIFIED)
IT IS likely that body number 170 is that of Hutchinson. It was buried at sea. The estimated age was 25, and the corpse had keys marked "Carpenter's locker", with a wood rule, silver watch and chain. The Halifax Coroner's records ...

 

GEORGE HENRY HUNT
WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC George H. Hunt, of 1309 Sotuh Ruby Street (Philadelphia), it was discovered yesterday, was one of the victims of the Titanic disaster. He had been visting his parents in England for several months and h...

 

WILLIAM ALEXANDER

 

COAL STRIKE NEWS BILLBOARD
Advert for the Pall Mall Gazette in March 1912, suggesting that miners are "blackmailing the nation" (with obvious pun intended) by failing to work pits in their demand for better pay. If the coal strike had continued a few days longer, the...

 

GUINNESS 'TITANIC' TV ADVERT BANNED
Drinks commercial does not survive Titanic treatment A Guinness 'Titantic' ad has been banned because it could have caused offence to descendants of people who lost their lives in the tragedy. SINKING a pint has tak...

 

IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 1)

 

IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 2)

 

IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 3)

 

IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 4)

 

WILLIAM MCCARTHY, LIFEBOAT 4 CREWMAN
MR WILLIAM McCARTHYGrattan Hill, Cork, who is fortunately amongst the survivors. Elite, San Francisco...

 

WILLIAM MCCARTHY AFTER THE TITANIC DISASTER

 

JONATHAN SHEPHERD

 

TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD
One of the few surviving members of the crew of the liner Titanic, Mr James Crimmins, died suddenly at a Southampton Salvation Army hostel yesterday, at the age of 65. (The Times of London, February 17, 1956, p. 3) * Cri...

 

MEMORIAL TO THE ENGINEERS

 

THE HEROIC ENGINEERS
Mr. Arthur Ward, one of the Titanic's engineers. In all the messages received no mention is made of what happened in the engine-room, of the gallant engineers sticking to their post with the water pouring into the bowels of the ship. That not one was...

 

BERTIE WILSON

 

PHOTOGRAPH OF TITANIC ENGINEER JOSEPH BELL
Portrait of Titanic's Chief Engineer Joseph Bell. ...

 

THE HEROIC ENGINEERS WHO WENT DOWN TO A MAN

 

THOMAS DILLON

 

OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK
Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...

 

1911 EVENTS OF THE SEASON
Olympic maiden voyage; Titanic launch...

 

TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES
Sir William Arrol and two disasters...

 

TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC
Cargo vessel's encounter with ice...

 

SKETCH OF HAROLD LOWE
Fifth Officer attends New York Inquiry...

 

OLYMPIC FITTINGS TO BE SOLD OFF
Summer 2004 news report...

 

J. BRUCE ISMAY RETREAT FOR SALE
A Titanophile's Dream for $1.5 million...

 

TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913
Children emulate lifeboat scene...

 

SEAMEN'S ORPHANS ON HOLIDAY
At sea in boats, August 1913...

 

A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC
A New Leviathan The new Atlantic liner which Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited are building for the White Star Line will eclipse in size and tonnage the Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. The new vessel will be called the Britannic in ...

 

INVENTOR OF THE LIFEBOAT
The Lukin Grave in England...

 

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINKING
Castings for the Queen Elizabeth...

 

LUCIEN P. SMITH'S DECEMBER BABY
Mary Eloise Smith pregnant on Titanic...

 

ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC
Wild panic reported in August 1912 emergency...

 

Robert Hichens
Deck Crew

Thomas Arthur Whiteley
Victualling Crew

Kate Florence Phillips
2nd Class Passenger

Violet Constance Jessop
Victualling Crew

George Francis 'Paddy' McGough
Deck Crew

William Clifford Weller
Deck Crew

James Crimmins
Engineering Crew

Eileen McNamee
3rd Class Passenger

Neal McNamee
3rd Class Passenger

Joseph Dawson
Engineering Crew

William Arthur Lucas
Deck Crew

Ellen Corr
3rd Class Passenger

Frank Dwan
3rd Class Passenger

Daniel J. Moran
3rd Class Passenger

Hannah Riordan
3rd Class Passenger

Thomas Rowan Morrow
3rd Class Passenger

Hugh Walter McElroy
Victualling Crew