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OLYMPIC AFTER HAWKE ACCIDENT
 
OLYMPIC AFTER HAWKE ACCIDENT
20th September 1911
The hull of the Olympic after the Hawke rammed it (Sept. 20, 1911) ...
OLYMPIC / HAWKE COLLISION
 
OLYMPIC / HAWKE COLLISION

From 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'...
DAMAGE TO THE OLYMPIC FOLLOWING COLLISION WITH HMS HAWKE
 
DAMAGE TO THE OLYMPIC FOLLOWING COLLISION WITH HMS HAWKE
20th September 1911
DAMAGE TO THE OLYMPIC FOLLOWING COLLISION WITH HMS HAWKE (1)
 
DAMAGE TO THE OLYMPIC FOLLOWING COLLISION WITH HMS HAWKE (1)
20th September 1911
Chicago Examiner
BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT
20th December 1911
BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT Admiralty Court Renders Decision in Olympic Collision Case Special Cable to the Examiner Sir Samuel Evans, president of the Admiralty Court, announced...
OLYMPIC AND TITANIC
 
OLYMPIC AND TITANIC

RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic meet for the last time in Belfast in March 1912....
H.M.S. HAWKE
 
H.M.S. HAWKE

Stratford Express
THE TITANIC DISASTER
20th April 1912
Mr William Dixon Mackie, fifth engineer on the steamship Titanic, who, it is feared has perished in the wreck of that ill-fated vessel. Mr Mackie, who was 31 years of age, had resided recently when ashore at 2b, Margery Park-road, Forest Gate. ...
Washington Times
CAPTAIN SMITH BELIEVED TITANIC TO BE UNSINKABLE
16th April 1912
That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in whi...
Oxford Illustrated
JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD
24th April 1912
MR WOODWARD was the youngest son of Mrs Woodward of Headington, and a brother of Mr. T. W. Woodward, the well-known tenor singer of Magdalen College Choir, living in Oakthorpe Road, Oxford. Mr. Wesley Woodward left Oxford about a fortnight ago to joi...
Surrey Advertiser and County Times
OTHER PASSENGERS
20th April 1912
Among others on board the vessel, and who, it is feared, has been drowned, was Mr. E. W. Hamblyn, of Southampton, elder brother of Mrs. H. A. Jamieson, of Portesbury Road, Camberley, Surrey. He was a steward on the liner, having been promoted from th...
Hampshire Post
MRS COGHLAN
19th April 1912
Also on board is Mrs. Coghlan, of Beach Road, and who is on board as a First Class Stewardess. Mrs. Coghlan who is engaged under the name of Miss Annie Martin is among the official list of those missing and much sympathy is felt for ...
Southport Visitor
SOUTHPORT MAN ABOARD
16th April 1912
We understand that among the crew of the Titanic is Mr. James Walpole, elder brother of Mr. H. Walpole, a prominent local bowler. This is the second shipping disaster Mr. Jas. Walpole has been in, having only recently been transferre...
Royal Cornwall Gazette
ST. AUSTELL
25th April 1912
The most impressive gathering was that at the Baptist Sunday School, with which the family of the late Mr. W. H. Nancarrow, one of the Mount Charles victims, was connected. As the children were being dismissed the members of the adult classes lined u...
The Evening Telegram
HAD LETTER LAST FRIDAY
16th April 1912
BROTHER STEWARD ON TITANIC : Charles Lydiatt Had Been Steward on Every Boat on White Star Line : Brother Waiting for News...
Sheffield Daily Telegraph
CHESTERFIELD NURSE RESCUED
20th April 1912
Miss Evelyn Marsden, who was a nurse-stewardess in the first caloon on the Titanic, is among the rescued. ...
Brighton Argos
SHOREHAM MAN MISSING [ISAAC MAYNARD]
17th April 1912
Article about Titanic survivor Isaac Maynard from Shoreham, Sussex...
Cambridge Independent Press
ARTHUR WILLIAM BARRINGER
19th April 1912
Mr. Arthur William Barringer, son of Mr. William Barringer, of 15 Thoday Street, Cambridge, was a Steward on the Titanic. It is hoped that he may be among those of the crew who were rescued, but his name has not appeared among the survivors. Mr. Barr...
OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK
The Sphere
OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK
30th September 1911
Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...
New-York Tribune
TO REPAIR THE OLYMPIC

Big White Star Boat Going Into Drydock at Belfast --- When the White Star steamship Olympic sailed yesterday morning it was announced that she would land her passengers at Plymouth and proceed direct to Belfast f...
The Times
A FIREMAN'S ADVENTURES
23rd April 1917
The remarkable adventures of a young fireman have been brought to light through the sinking of the "Donegal." John Priest, who lives in Southampton, is only 29 years of age. He has been on the sea since his youth, and has served in many wat...
New York Times
DISASTER AT LAST BEFALLS CAPT. SMITH
16th April 1912
Veteran Commander of Titanic Went Forty Years Without Accident of Any Kind --- WHITE STAR'S BEST OFFICER --- Declared Only Recently That He Did Not Believe Modern Ships Could Be Sunk --- Capt. E. J. Smith, i...
Southport Visitor
MR. JAMES WALPOLE
18th April 1912
As stated in Tuesdays Visitor among the crew of the ill fated liner was Mr. James Walpole, brother of Mr. Horace Walpole, of 17 Line-street, Southport and brother-in-law of the late Mr. W. E. Browne. A native of Southport...
The Mercury (Hobart)
THE TITANIC'S COMMANDER
25th April 1912
BRISBANE, April 24 For some time past there has been in Brisbane Captain Anning, who at one time was commander of the White Star liner Persic, trading to Australia. He said, in...
Western Morning News
FROM THE WESTCOUNTRY
20th April 1912
Captain and Mrs. T. Hoskings (sic), 17, The Green, Shaldon, received a telegram yesterday from Mr. Bock (the former’s cousin), now in America, to the effect that he had travelled down to New York, 300 miles from his home, hoping to meet their son amo...
Staffordshire Advertiser
STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER (1)
20th April 1912
Captain E. J. Smith, the commander of the ill-fated vessel, was a native of Hanley, the son of Mr. E. J. Smith. He was educated at the British School, then under the mastership of the late Mr....
 
CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY : HENRY WILDE

THE appalling disaster to the Titanic has taken away, in the person of Lieut, H. T. Wilde, RNR, one of the most promising officers serving with the White Star Line. Lieut. Wilde, who was chief officer of the Titanic, commenced his sea career in the s...
VULCAN
Voyage
VULCAN
13th February 2005
John P. Eaton
Vulcan struggling to pull the stern of the New York (left) away from Titanic's port side (Eaton-Haas Collection)...
 
BIOGRAPHY - FROM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS MAGAZINE 1912

THE Commander of the Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith, Royal Naval Reserve, (widely know as E.J. by all passengers and crew) was very well known and was one of the most popular masters in the Atlantic service. He was in command of the Olympic, and her...
 
LETTER FROM JACK BUTTERWORTH

Prior to leaving on the Titanic, Jack had been courting his fiancee (a Miss May Hinton of Woolston, Southampton) and they had agreed to become engaged. Jack wrote the following letter (actual letter see next column) which was posted at Queenstown: (n...
Warwick Examiner and Times
THE TITANIC : THE HEROINE OF THE SHIPWRECK
15th September 1913
Mrs Gold was a stewardess of the vessel, and had been in the White Star service for 10 years. Previous to being on the Titanic, Mrs Gold was on the Olympic and experienced the collision between the li...
SURVIVOR FROM €�TITANIC€�
Hampshire Chronicle
SURVIVOR FROM €�TITANIC€�
27th April 1912
A Newhaven A.B. Who Has Faced Many Perils of the Deep Mr Will Clifford Weller, who was an able...
Southport Guardian
SOUTHPORT AND BIRKDALE VICTIMS OF THE TITANIC
20th April 1912
SOUTHPORT AND BIRKDALE MEN. Yesterday the list of the names of members of the crew of the Titanic who have been rescued were published, and as they did not include those of Mr. James Walpole or of Mr. Walter Ennis, b...
The Sun (New York)
SMITH THOUGHT HIS SHIP UNSINKABLE
16th April 1912
Titanic's Skipper Was Never in an Accident on High Seas Before This One --- LOVED OCEAN LIKE A BOY --- Grew Up With White Star Line and Had Its Confidence---Junior Officers on Board --- ...
The Examiner
OFFICERS OF THE TITANIC
26th April 1912
PERSONAL DETAILS Interesting sidelights on the character of Captain E. J. Smith and the officers associated with him in his last command, the mammoth liner Titanic, were thrown by the officers of the White Star liner Afric, which arr...
The Daily Banner
STORY TOLD OF SINKING OF THE TITANIC
16th May 1912
By A Nephew Of A Mt. Vernon Man Who Was Rescued In One Of The Life Boats Charles Burgess Arrives At Home In England ...
RACING THROUGH THE NIGHT : OLYMPIC'S ATTEMPT TO REACH TITANIC
Titanic Review
RACING THROUGH THE NIGHT : OLYMPIC'S ATTEMPT TO REACH TITANIC
17th November 2011
Michael Poirier
The story of Olympic's abortive 350 mile dash to save Titanic....
Daily Enterprise
LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED
20th April 1912
---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Man Who Tried to Climb Into Life Boat; Two Explosions Occurred ---------- August...
THE CHEEK OF WILLIAM WELLER
Titanica!
THE CHEEK OF WILLIAM WELLER
3rd June 2004
Senan Molony
After the Hawke collision Able Seaman William Clifford Weller was annoyed that he would lose out on wages for the voyage......
Southend Standard
TITANIC VICTIM'S FUNERAL (1)
16th May 1912
Pathetic Ceremony at Liverpool. Impressive Scenes at the Funeral of Steward Lawrence. A funeral unique in the history of Liverpool was solemnised at the West Derby Cemetery, on Monday, when the body of Arthur Lawrence, ...
Whitehaven News
LOCAL CONNECTION WITH TITANIC DISASTER
2nd May 1912
The Blackburn Times of the 20th inst. contains the following account of an interview with Mr. James Shepherd, son of the late Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, formerly of Whitehaven, and now residing at Blackburn, whose son, Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, was one of t...
SWITCH THEORY FOUNDERS IN A SEA OF EVIDENCE
Titanic Review
SWITCH THEORY FOUNDERS IN A SEA OF EVIDENCE
12th July 2004
Monica Hall
OLYMPIC & TITANIC - The Truth Behind The Conspiracy by Steve Hall and Bruce Beveridge The Olympic–Tit...
Eastbourne Gazette
MR. J. WESLEY WOODWARD
24th April 1912
One of the best known among the hero musicians of the Titanic was Mr. J. Wesley Woodward, son of Mrs. Woodward, of The Firs, Windmill Road, Headington, Oxford, who was one of the violoncelle players of the Duke of Devonshire's Eastbourne Orchestra. M...
The New York Times
SINKING SHIP'S BAND CHOSE FITTING HYMN
21st April 1912
"Hold Me Up in Mighty Waters," a Suggestive Line in "Autumn" WERE NOTED MUSICIANS Friends of the Titanic's Bandmaster Say He Believed In Music's Power t...
Washington Times
TITANIC'S CAPTAIN HAD LONG RECORD ON THE HIGH SEAS
17th April 1912
As Captain of Olympic Smith's Vessel Hit British Cruiser Last Fall --- If the twentieth century retained a belief in the power of malignant spirits and the human passions of natural forces, the termination of the career of Capt. E. J. S...
New York Post
BOAT SPACE LOST
19th April 1912
Many of the lifeboats which bore the survivors of the Titanic to safety were only half-filled according to a Pennsylvania business man, who stood at the rail of the Carpathia and saw every one of the ...
Birkenhead News
BIRKENHEAD STEWARDESS MISS STAP'S GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
4th May 1912
THE EXPERIENCES OF A BIRKENHEAD STEWARDESS MISS STAP'S GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER...
THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC
Titanic Review
THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC
6th December 2004
Michael Tennaro
In this new book, Chirnside has done the triplets proud, with a thoroughly researched history of each of these vessels. ...
RMS OLYMPIC BY BRIAN HAWLEY
Titanic Review
RMS OLYMPIC BY BRIAN HAWLEY
5th September 2012
Mike Poirier and Stuart Kelly
Mike Poirier and Stuart Kelly review Brian Hawley's book on Titanic's sister ship RMS Olympic...
THE NEW YORK INCIDENT
Titanica!
THE NEW YORK INCIDENT
5th January 2018
Near collision for world's largest ship....
SPEED AND REVOLUTIONS
Titanica!
SPEED AND REVOLUTIONS
18th September 2007
Samuel Halpern
"We were working out a slip table, and we had not quite finished when she went down. All of us were on, working out a slip table, how many turns of the engine it would require to do so many knots; and all this, and it tapered down." - Titanic's 5t...
RMS TITANIC 100 YEARS ON
Titanica!
RMS TITANIC 100 YEARS ON
15th April 2012
Philip Hind
As the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster approaches Philip Hind explores why the sinking has etched itself into our consciousness and how Oxfordshire was touched by the tragedy....
VIOLET'S BARREN WHITE STAR WEDDING
Titanica!
VIOLET'S BARREN WHITE STAR WEDDING
27th April 2011
Senan Molony
The story of Titanic survivor Violet Jessop's short-lived marriage revealed for the first time....
 
WILLIAM MCMASTER MURDOCH

Mark Garfien
William McMaster Murdoch was born 28th February 1873 in Dalbeattie, Scotland. He was the fourth of seven children of Captain Samuel Murdoch and his wife Jeanie. The Murdochs had been a se...
Worcester Evening Post
NO HOPE FOR MORE SURVIVORS
16th April 1912
ST. JOHNS , N.F. April 16.- All hope that any of the passengers or members of the crew of the Titanic, other than those on the Carpathia, are alive was abandoned this afternoon. All the steamers which have been cruising in the vi...
 
ROAMING AROUND: MEMOIRS OF A MARCONI OPERATOR

Alec Bagot
Extract The next year went past for me in many experiences of life and places. I was a fully fledged Marconi operator, had visited my Australia of loving memories, Norway, with its North Cape, where I had taken photographs...
THE MYSTERY OF TITANIC'S CENTRAL PROPELLER
Voyage
THE MYSTERY OF TITANIC'S CENTRAL PROPELLER
5th May 2008
Mark Chirnside
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TITANIC'S PRIME MOVER
Titanica!
TITANIC'S PRIME MOVER
9th July 2007
Samuel Halpern
An Examination of Propulsion and Power...
 
TITANIC

Filson Young
The classic text of Titanic by Filson Young...