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RMS Titanic

Class VK Main/Index sister projects: Wikipedia article. This index lists texts written about the RMS Titanic, and her sinking.

New York Herald

Before

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April 15

• Passengers Safely Moved and Steamer Titanic Taken in Tow, An incorrect story about the disastrous sinking of the Titanic, that was published in the Christian Science Monitor on April 15, 1912.
• Hand-written account by Captain of R.M.S. CARPATHIA describing his response to the distress signal of the TITANIC on 15 April 1912
• US Navy full memorandum
• According to Crome Yellow, the passengers sang "Nearer my God to Thee" as the ship was going down.
• Event noted in Chronology of Mahatma Gandhi's life, 1869-1914 on date "1912, April 15"

April 16

• Front page, New York Times, April 16
• Baltimore American
  • Title page with Partial List of Those Who Have Been Rescued
  • p. 6: The Sunken Steamer, Her Captain and the Rescue Ships
  • p. 7: Prominent Persons Who Were On Titanic

April 17

• INQUIRY BY CONGRESS INTO TITANIC'S LOSS; Mott of New York Introduces Resolution Covering Lifeboats and Wireless, The New York Times, April 17, 1912, Page 11
• A Ballade of Theatricals, appeared on a programme for a fund raising benefit in London on 14th May 1912

After

• “Titanic Disaster,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
  • “Astor, John Jacob,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914. Mentions he is the great grandfather of a victim.
• The American Practical Navigator/Chapter 1 : "In 1912, following the sinking of the Titanic, the International Ice Patrol was established."
• ““Titanic” Disaster, 1912,” Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.), 1922.

See also

• Portal:Shipwrecks