Michael Poirier

Titanic survivor breaks silence after 46 years

Added 28th February 2024

Violet Jessop challenges Ellen Barber's recollection...

The Titanic Break-Up

Added 14th April 2022

Accounts of the Titanic break not found in inquiries or testimony...

Survivors give their impressions of Titanic movies

Added 13th October 2021

Reactions of those survivors who decided to revisit the Titanic...

SURVIVORS GIVE THEIR IMPRESSIONS OF TITANIC MOVIES

John Jacob Astor’s Fatal Mistake

Added 13th April 2021

Astor could have survived had he stepped into lifeboat seven when given the opportunity....

Dissecting Titanic accounts

Added 12th April 2021

Anna Sjöblom swore a woman had died in her boat and then her husband died of shock....

New Titanic books focus on Canadian connections
The 100th anniversary has given us two books on Titanic's Canadian connections......

Ohio Tales of the Titanic
Ohio Tales of the Titanic, is definitely a standout. This specific book focuses on the Buckeye state connections to Titanic....

Edith Corse Evans
Portrait of an elusive heroine...

On a Sea of Glass : The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic
On a Sea of Glass is a comprehensive book for those interested in every aspect of the lost liner....

RMS Olympic: The Early Years
It's easy to start the story of Olympic by talking about a limousine pulling up in front of Downshire House. However this has been over-used in many books and articles. What can one say about the ca...

60 Years Ago The Titanic Went Down
Sixty years on, Washington Dodge recalls the night he survived the sinking of the Titanic....

Survivor of Titanic's Sinking 50 Years ago Tells Story Of Tragedy
Across the span of 50 years, a handsome old lady turned her memory back to the sinking of the great ocean liner Titanic...

Anna Kincaid is: Olympia's unsinkable Molly Brown

Added 1st October 2018

50 years ago Saturday, April 14, 1912, an Olympia woman, Mrs Anna Kincaid, celebrated her 18th birthday – aboard the luxury liner Titanic....

ANNA KINCAID IS: OLYMPIA'S UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN

Titanic survivor finally awarded $280
Roberta Maioni Compensation...

Somerset Survivor of the Titanic : His Views on the Film
One of the two surviving officers of the Titanic, the “unsinkable” White Star liner, which went down in April, 1912, with the loss of 1,502 lives, is Mr. Herbert J. Pitman, who lives at Pitcombe, near Bruton. His memories of the disas...

The Ship That Couldn't Sink: Survivor Recalls Titanic Disaster
A survivor of the sinking of the Titanic recalled yesterday how youthful curiosity saved his life in the disaster exactly 43 years ago....

The William Perines celebrate 25th anniversary
newspaper photo...

John Irwin Flynn's account
Although the torpedoing of the Lusitania is one of the most thrilling tragedies of maritime history, now being revived by the search for its lost treasure, there is one Pittsburgher who wouldn’t want to talk with any of the survivors....

Tacoma Woman was on the Titanic

Added 12th April 2021

Mrs G. Kincaid recalls terrible Ship tragedy of 17 years ago...

John Irwin Flynn Naturalization Application

SURVIVED TITANIC; HELD FOR ASSAULT
On a charge of assaulting his step-son, Robert Nugent, 14, Thomas McCormack, 376 Boulevard, Bayonne, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, was held in $2,000 bail to await the action of the Grand Jury by Recorder William J. Cain in the police court...

JEWEL ROBBERY : TITANIC SURVIVOR LOSES £3,000 BROOCH
A diamond brooch worth about £3,000, belonging to Mrs. J.J. Brown, an American visitor to Deanville, which was the sole article saved from her jewels in the wreck of the Titanic, was stolen two days ago from one of the leading hotels....

The Titanic : The heroine of the shipwreck
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...

A TITANIC SUIT
Widow of Man Drowned Last April Wants $10,000...

Camberwell Survivor's Pathetic Letter

Added 11th January 2023

The Titanic disaster Camberwell survivor's letter We have been favoured with the following poignant letter from a Camberwell lady who was a passenger on the lost Titanic. Her experiences d...

Wreck Survivors Known in Camden

Added 12th November 2021

Elmer Z. Taylor tells of Thrilling Experience when Titanic Sank...

Aubart account
May 13, 1912 : I had in my cabin jewels worth 4,000 (GPB) as well as many trunks of dresses and hats. One does not come from Paris and buy one's clothes in America. That is understood, is it not? Nothing could I take with me; nothing a...

DEVON LADY Tells her Story of Titanic Disaster
EXCITING TIME Miss Susie Webber, second cabin passenger, who was rescued from the “Titanic” send us the following account of her experiences: I started from a railway station in De...

MR. BRUCE ISMAY : Arrival at Liverpool: A Hearty Reception
The “Adriatic! Arrived at Liverpool on Saturday, having on board Mr. Bruce Ismay and some other survivors of the “Titanic” disaster. A large crowd assembled, including Press representatives from London, Paris, and the Provinces...

THE ASTOR MILLIONS
THE ASTOR MILLIONS Interesting Problem Respecting the Bequests to the Widow It is possible that the will of colonel J.J. Astor, w...

Alice Phillips letter describes sinking of Titanic
Vivid word picture of the Titanic wreck by an Ilfracombe survivor....

LETTER FROM LOCAL LADY SURVIVOR
Newspaper report of a letter sent by Annie Caton written while returning to England aboard the SS Lapland detailing her experiences on the Titanic....

A survivor of Titanic disaster visits Minot

Added 14th January 2019

Tells many interesting facts...

Man Mrs Astor saved starts new life here

Added 14th January 2019

Carl Johnson, pulled from sea by Colonel's widow, lands in Minneapolis...

Tells of his experience on Titanic

Added 12th November 2021

Interview with Titanic Survivor Emler Zebley Taylor...

Mr. And Mrs. Dick Reach Home
My Wife Saved My Life, Says Husband...

TWO CANADIAN SURVIVORS AND A VICTIM OF THE TITANIC
Quigg Baxter, Mrs Baxter and Mrs Douglas...

Major Butt Destroyed Papers
Mrs. Cassebeer statement...

Major Peuchen Arriving in Toronto
One of the few Canadian men aboard the ship to be saved...

Mrs Henry L. Cassebeer Jr.
Eleanor Cassebeer...

Mrs. Cassebeer Account
Mrs. Henry Arthur Casebeer, Jr., of New York City, who is one of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, was in Binghamton this morning visiting her mother, Mrs. L.V. Fosdick at the House of the Good Shepherd and to a representative of the Bingham...

FORCED TO SIGN, SHE SAYS
newspaper cutting...

Ilfracombe Girl's Thrilling Story Of Her Escape
Miss Alice Phillips, of Ilfracombe, age about twenty, and she told the reporters with tears in her eyes that her father had gone down with the ill-fated liner....

Local news for the parishes in North Devon
Local news of the Titanic...

Miss Hilda Slater
Passenger saved from the Titanic, was coming to Canada to marry Mr. Reginald Lacon...

Photograph of the Nakid Family
A photograph of the Nakid family. The family escaped from the Titanic but the baby died soon after from meningitis....