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    1913 Olympic discharge port diagram.

    Does anyone know where that pdf of Olympic's sanity/discharge ports is? Don't mistake them for the engine outlets, i meant those hole along the water line where dirty water drained into the ocean. I don't know if I'm misremembering, but i think i last saw it in Marl Chirmside's site.
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    Titanic 1913 Painting Help? For Sale?

    Hello everyone, I have a painting of the Titanic painted in 1913, a year after the disaster. It was painted by Wheeler? Any help on the artist would be helpful. Also it has some writing below the name. I can't read through. I am willing to sell as well. James Scott
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    Atlantis (1913) Film

    Nothing Titanic related, but just a interesting film for curious film / maritime fans... Apparently the Harland & Wolff built ship Rotterdam (1897) when later the C.F. Tietgen of the Scandinavian America Line was used as a film set for the Danish film Atlantis (1913) based off a book by...
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    Titanic Orphans On Water 1913

    https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-orphans-water-1913.html
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    Hyperbole from 1913: Profile of Capt. Haddock

    MAB note: The digitized version of the article has some very indistinct spots in it. The question marks in this transcription reflect words or (particularly) numbers that are not entirely clear. The World Evening Edition, New York, 12 April 1913 Original article digitized by the New...
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    News from 1913: Death of Capt. Metcalfe

    MAB note: 1. The inconsistent spelling of "Metcalf(e) is in the original and and in nearly forty years' worth of California newspaper articles. 2. Metcalfe brought Belgic to the Pacific in 1875, not 1878 as reported here. 3. A Maryport native and nephew of Thomas Ismay, Metcalfe commanded...
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    News from 1913: Capt. Sealby becomes an admiralty lawyer

    The San Francisco Call, 25 February 1913 Retrieved from the California Digital Newspaper Collection web site, California Digital Newspaper Collection HERO OF SEA DISASTER TO PRACTICE LAW --- Captain I. Sealby, Who Commanded Republic, Will Make Home Here --- Captain I. Sealby, who...
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    News from 1913: Career of Capt. Lobez

    The Press, Christchurch, 24 January 1913 Retrieved from the National Library of New Zealand web site, Papers Past A WHITE STAR APPOINTMENT --- CAPTAIN R. LOBEZ'S CAREER --- The many friends in New Zealand of Captain R. Lobez, who last visited the Dominion as chief officer of the...
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    News from 1913: Death of Officer Morrow

    The Evening Post, Wellington, 27 October 1913 Retrieved from the National Library of New Zealand web site, Papers Past PERSONAL *** The death is also announced of Mr. J. M. Morrow, who last visited New Zealand in May as second officer of the Ionic. He made a number of voyages to these...
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    News from 1913: Death of John Inman Sealby

    MAB notes: 1. John Sealby and Mary Inman Sealby were the maternal grandparents of Thomas Ismay and the paternal grandparents of John Inman Sealby. 2, John Inman Sealby's brother Joseph was the father of White Star commander Inman Sealby. The Times, 8 February 1913 MR. J. I. SEALBY ---...
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    News from 1913: Death of Capt Roberts

    The Mercury, Hobart, 12 December 1913 Retrieved from the National Library of Australia web site, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper PERSONAL --- The many friends of Captain E. Crosby Roberts, who for a considerable number of years was connected with the steamers belonging to the White...
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    News from 1913 and 1934: Retirement/Death of Capt Kempson

    The Evening Post, Wellington, 6 March 1934 Retrieved from the National Library of New Zealand web site, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home LONG SERVICE --- SEA CAPTAIN'S DEATH --- MANY NEW ZEALAND FRIENDS --- Fifty-four years' service with the Shaw, Savill...
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    News from 1913: The end of Ismay Imrie and Co

    MAB Note: The 16 June article mentioned in the last paragraph of this article appears here. The Times, 30 June 1913 THE WHITE STAR LINE --- THE RETIREMENT OF ISMAY, IMRIE, AND CO. --- To-day there is withdrawn from the business world, or to be more precise from the shipping world...
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    News from 1913 MR SAMUEL LAWTHER

    MAB Note: I have never encountered Mr. Lawther's name before, that I recall, and can in quick, early research find no reference to his having a connection to White Star other than this obituary. His name is not listed in either Oldham or Anderson as among White Star's 1869 shareholders. He is...
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    News from 1913: Maiden voyage of Ceramic

    [MAB Note: Ceramic began her maiden voyage on 24 July 1913. This article appeared some days earlier, after her initial arrival at Liverpool from Belfast.] The Times, 8 July 1913 THE NEW AUSTRALIAN LINER CERAMIC --- A "DEFENSIVE MERCHANTMAN" --- The new triple-screw White Star...
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    Danish Atlantis 1913 DVD release

    For the past six months I have been writing to the Danish Film Institute (DFI) being very impatient. Their release of the old silent movie "Atlantis" from 1913 was postponed several times. But now it is finally here - I just received my copy with the mail yesterday. The film is not about the...
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    News from 1913: TEUTONIC MENACED BY GIANT ICEBERG

    The New York Times, 28 October 1913 TEUTONIC MENACED BY GIANT ICEBERG --- Saved by Sharp Lookout and Skillful Seamanship from Collision Like the Titanic's --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LIVERPOOL, Oct. 27---The White Star liner Teutonic...
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    SS Lusitania Arrive NYC April 24 1913

    Looking for any details of this Arrival in New York. Ellis Island Website has nothing on it nor does it have name of my Danish Immigrant I am looking for. [I have green card that shows ship name and arrival and name, but that is it. I am told passenger list do not exist for the Lusitania?? Help...
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    News from 1913: Olympic Returns to Service

    The New York Times, 10 April 1913 OLYMPIC, DONE OVER, ONCE MORE IN PORT --- Fitted with an Inner Skin and Longitudinal Bulkheads Which Make Her Steady Under Way --- $1,250,000 FOR REPAIRS --- New Parisian Restaurant---English Commissioners for Anglo-American Exposition Aboard ---...
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    News from 1913: Ismay's Resignation from White Star

    On 31 December 1912, after months of speculation, Bruce Ismay's resignation from the Presidency of IMM and the Chairmanship of White Star was officially announced in London. This article appeared the following day. The Times (London), 1 January 1913 MR. ISMAY AND THE WHITE STAR LINE ---...
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