He arrived in New York City on 11 April 1912, after declining an offer of passage on the RMS Titanic, telling the Bahá'í believers, instead, to "Donate this to charity."
Proceeds from the sale of tickets at this game were donated to the survivors of the RMS Titanic.
He appeared to have been very interested in the RMS Titanic disaster of 1912, particularly in the Enquiries subsequently held, apparently suspecting suppression of certain information.
He tried to develop an iceberg detection system using reflected sound waves after the Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912.
In 1947, Saunderson's great-grandson, also named Alexander, married Louise Astor Van Alen, granddaughter of James John Van Alen and grandniece of RMS Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV, and the ex-wife of two different Georgian Mdivani princes.
He and seven other missionaries purchased tickets to travel back to America on the RMS Titanic, but due to a situation with one of the missionaries, Sonne canceled all eight tickets.
In the winter of 1912, Taylor and Robert Goodwin represented Marjorie Newell Robb against Oceanic Steam Navigation Company for the sum of $110,400.00, together with costs from the April 15, 1912 sinking of the Titanic.
RMS Titanic - The Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company also helped to insure the RMS Titanic.
Another family member of a later generation was Catherine, daughter of Patrick McCarthy, farmer, of Ballygurteen, Kilmoyler, who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
Upadhyay Gour Govinda Ray used to say, “Benoyendranath is a rose in bloom.” At the time of Titanic disaster in 1912, Sen presided over a memorial service.
The Butt Memorial Bridge is a road bridge in Augusta, Georgia dedicated to Major Archibald Willingham Butt, a victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
His mother died when he was four-years-old and his father, who had worked on the RMS Titanic, was killed as an innocent passer-by in a gun battle between the IRA and the Black and Tans.
Herbert Fuller Chaffee (Eben's son) was a first-class passenger aboard the RMS Titanic, with his wife Carrie Constance Toogood.
The hotel's restaurant, now named Fitzroy Doll's, is said to be almost identical to the RMS Titanic`s dining room which he also designed.
Stories of the haunting began when Charles Melville Hays died on his return voyage on the RMS Titanic from Europe 12 days before the hotel's opening.
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The hotel was to be opened on 26 April 1912, but Hays, who was returning to Canada for the hotel opening, perished aboard the RMS Titanic when it sank on 15 April.
Just several months before Leconte died, his nephew, Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, had been one of over 2,200 passengers and crew on board the RMS Titanic for its maiden voyage.
During his time working for the dock labourers, Edwards was to play a leading part in the public inquiry which looked into the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
Number 1 Cockspur Street was at one time Oceanic House, the London office of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or the White Star Line, which owned the famed liner RMS Titanic.
During the spring and summer of 2005, COSI hosted the blockbuster traveling exhibition "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" and saw record attendance.
Opened on 20 April 1912 by Victor Cox, the original building had 200 seats and the first show raised funds for the survivors and relatives of those killed earlier in the month on the RMS Titanic.
The town is famed for its granite industry and for being the home town of William McMaster Murdoch First Officer of the RMS Titanic.
Prior to finding HMAS Sydney, Mearns said that it was, in some ways, "bigger than the Titanic" because of what it meant to Australia.
In 1908, they designed what was then the world's largest floating crane, built for Harland & Wolff in Belfast, which would be used for the building of the passenger liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.
Dickinson H. Bishop (March 24, 1887 – February 16, 1961) was an American who traveled on board the ill-fated RMS Titanic.
Lynch has an extensive collection of Titanic memorabilia and even more extensive knowledge of the subject, having researched the RMS Titanic along with Marschall since the early 1970s.
Unknown to him, boxes labelled as property of Vladimir Basarab are also loaded on board; the ocean liner is later revealed to be the RMS Titanic.
Edith remembered clearly when RMS Titanic struck the iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on 14 April 1912.
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Titanic's hold contained tableware, furnishings, and 1,000 rolls of bed linen for the intended hotel.
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Edith's last memory of her father was that he was dressed in an Edwardian dinner jacket while smoking a cigar and sipping brandy on Titanic's deck as Edith and her mother were being lowered in the lifeboat.
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Edith was 15 years old when she and her parents boarded the RMS Titanic in Southampton, England as second-class passengers.
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On 15 April 1995, Edith was present with fellow Titanic survivor, Eva Hart, aged 90, at the opening of a memorial garden at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London where a granite monument commemorating the 83rd anniversary of Titanic's sinking was erected.
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Edith Haisman (27 October 1896 – 20 January 1997) was one of the last remaining and oldest survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912.
After the Titanic disaster, they reached America and carried on with their plans to visit British Columbia, Klondyke and Alaska.
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Elsie Edith Bowerman (18 December 1889 - 18 October 1973) was a British lawyer, suffragette and RMS Titanic survivor.
She also may have consented to films because she no longer had the protection of her beloved Broadway employers Henry B. Harris, who died on the Titanic and Charles Frohman, who perished on the Lusitania in May 1915.
His most famous work is his second novel, Psalm at Journey's End, which in separate but steadily more interwoven stories follows the individual musicians that end their careers and lives at Titanic.
In 1904, Matania joined the staff of The Sphere where some of his most famous work was to appear, including his illustrations of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
Four young men from Fritham went down with the Titanic in 1912; Leonard Mark Hickman, Leonard Hickman, Stanley George Hickman, Ambrose Hood.
One of his earliest pieces, The Sinking of the Titanic (1969), is an indeterminist work which allows the performers to take a number of sound sources related to the sinking of the RMS Titanic and make them into a piece of music.
The songs on the album were of a more diverse nature to the pure pop the group would later become famous for, with themes including a song about prostitution ("Lady"), open air sex ("Movin' With Susan") and a real-life tragedy ("Spring of 1912").
In 2000, RMS Titanic Inc. named Jessop as the recovery manager of the wreck of the Titanic.
Southampton has been host to many famous ships, including the Mayflower and the Titanic, the latter being crewed largely by Hampshire natives.
One of the Dunkirk 'little ships' still moored at Ramsgate and open to the public is the Motor Yacht Sundowner, (built 1912) once the private yacht of the second officer of the Titanic, C.H. Lightoller, whom surviving that fatal wreck later insisted personally at being at the helm during the evacuation of Dunkirk.
The Institute is also the home of the Guild of Benevolence of the IMarEST, which continues the work of the fund founded for the families of the engineers of the Titanic, and which today provides help and funds for those seafarers and others who find themselves in hard times.
Alexander died in a barber's chair of a heart attack after hearing of his friend John Hugo Ross's death on the Titanic.
McCarty has a BS in Chemistry from Temple University, and completed her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, based on her studies of recovered material from the RMS Titanic.
His grandmother was the Edwardian couturiere Lady Duff-Gordon, otherwise known by her professional name Lucile, and who was a survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster.
However, the Longdens' train was late getting to the port of Southampton, and they missed their scheduled voyage to New York City on the Titanic.
This would have been impossible, as the Titanic sank in 1912, three years before construction on the dam that formed Lake Wissota began.
It was released April 11, 1912 while Gibson was on the RMS Titanic
J. Bruce Ismay, the president of the White Star Line, was a former player with the club and survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
The school was founded in 1915, as a consequence of the official report into the loss of the Titanic, and today continues to be supported by the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.
Louise Patten, Lady Patten (born 1954) is a British businesswoman and author, who is the wife of the Conservative politician, John Patten and the granddaughter of the RMS Titanic Second Officer, Charles Lightoller.
In 2008 he played Captain Smith of the RMS Titanic, in the docudrama Titanic: The Unsinkable Ship.
In 1901, Alfred Rowe, an English rancher who later perished in the sinking of the Titanic, donated land near a railroad cattle loading stop for the establishment of a town site.
His best-known film was A Night to Remember (1958), in which he played Thomas Andrews, designer of the RMS Titanic.
Returning from Scotland with his daughter and niece, Harper booked passage on the White Star Line’s new ocean liner Titanic.
It was based on the 1912 novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle, a writer who perished in the Titanic sinking in 1912.
In 1958 he acted in the first of two Titanic films, A Night to Remember, as a steward unable to communicate with non-English speaking passengers.
His Film 50.14N 41.46W (the point in which the RMS Titanic ship sunk, attended in international film and video dance festivals in Greece, Spain & Russia.
The area has historical and cultural links which include the Titanic, The Beatles and The Canadian Army Mutiny in the First World War.
One of Brightwell's most memorable roles was in Titanic as Quartermaster Hichens, the crew member who was at the Ship's Wheel at the time of RMS Titanic's impact with the iceberg which sank it.
Herbert John "Bert" Pitman MBE (1877 – 1961) was the Third Officer on board the Titanic.
His topical event songs, "Mystery of the Dunbar's Child" and "Sinking of the Titanic" also remain popular - and the latter contained within its verses a truncated rendition of the old gospel music standard "Nearer, My God, to Thee," demonstrating the further versatility of his repertoire.
Among her many decisions is the 2011 ruling that decided the title to and restrictions upon artifacts salvaged from the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
In 1912, William Carter bought one and was planning to transport it from Southampton, England to New York City on the RMS Titanic.
In 2009, Neill presented a documentary on the RMS Titanic for UTV, and has returned to the station as a newscaster/presenter and in-vision announcer.
They may be familiar from underwater photographs of shipwrecks, such as the RMS Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck.
When asked how he felt about this, he compared himself to the captain of the Titanic, thereafter becoming known as "Nathan Iceberg" (ibid).
Some wills now include Titanic clauses (named for the RMS Titanic, which caused many simultaneous deaths among testators and executors).
The first version of the treaty was passed in 1914 in response to the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
Many of the RMS Titanic's wealthy First Class passengers stayed in the South Western Hotel next to Southampton Terminus before they boarded for their disastrous journey.
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Southampton Terminus is remembered for the many passengers of RMS Titanic who passed through it.
Hays went down with the RMS Titanic in April 1912; nevertheless, construction on the SNE commenced at full speed in May.
Based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, the company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century — most famously, the RMS Mauretania which held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, and the RMS Carpathia which rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic.
Upon the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, he asked Lord Loreburn, the Lord Chancellor, to appoint a commission of inquiry into the disaster.
The Irish Times reviewer Kevin Courtney noted the return of Coleman to Irish television screens as "the agony uncle to another group of troubled teenagers, this time six girls with enough collective baggage to sink the Titanic".
The great loss of life associated with the sinking has led to the Tek Sing being referred to in modern times as the "Titanic of the East".
The wreck of the Titanic was explored by an ROV, as well as by a crew-operated vessel.
Jack further encourages her along this career path, even introducing her to Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic.
John Farnleigh is a wealthy young man married to his childhood love, and a survivor of the Titanic disaster.
The relativistic missiles hit while they are surveying the RMS Titanic.
The Doctor, Ace and Bernice travel to the Aztec Empire in 1487, to London in the Swinging Sixties, and to the sinking of the RMS Titanic as they attempt to rectify the temporal faults - and survive the attacks of the living god Huitzilin.
His daughter, Lilian, perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
Their son, Hugh, travelled back to his home in New York from her funeral on the RMS Titanic.
The brewery was founded in Burslem Stoke-on-Trent in 1985 and takes its name from the ill-fated steam liner Titanic.
During their 2009 Dansbandskampen appearance, it was mentioned that the band was not named after the boat RMS Titanic that sank in 1912, but rather an ice hockey stick.
In contrast, in 1912 when the RMS Titanic sank, the wireless operator transmitted their distress in both CQD and SOS formats.
They included the tourist present at the sinking of the RMS Titanic, at the John F. Kennedy assassination, the destruction of Air France Flight 4590 and at the Hindenburg disaster.
To give perspective to the size of Victoria Quay, VQ is in fact a few feet short of the length of the actual RMS Titanic, and there are some prominent nods to naval architecture in the design of the building.
A dessert called Waldorf Pudding was served to first class passengers on the RMS Titanic on the April 14, 1912.
(October 8, 1917 – May 19, 2002), was an American author, best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account A Night to Remember, about the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
By the last decade of the 19th century, it was delivering forgings to Admiralty specifications - a customer relationship that continued throughout World War I. Somers' company also produced parts of the anchors used on the RMS Titanic.
The pulpit was given as a memorial to B. Watson, Esq, and two stained glass windows were added in memory of Frederick Humby, an old Watts boy who lost his life in the Titanic disaster of 1912.
Edith Corse Evans, heir to a hide-tanning and real estate fortune with a West Sayville summer home, was a passenger on the Titanic.
Winnifred's father heard the news of Titanic's sinking, but received a wireless message that his wife and daughters were safe.
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Eight-year-old Winnifred, along with her mother and sister, boarded the Titanic as second-class passengers at Southampton, England.
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Winnifred Vera Quick Van Tongerloo (January 23, 1904 – July 4, 2002) was one of the last four remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.
The defendant, Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, otherwise known as "Lucile" (her couture label), was a leading designer of fashions for high society as well as the stage and early silent cinema, and was a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.
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Harold Bride's recollection that the orchestra was playing "Autumn" as the Titanic foundered in 1912 has led to speculation by Walter Lord that he was in fact referring to Songe d'Automne, which was part of the repertory of the White Star Line orchestras and with which he would undoubtedly been familiar.
When the angel Balthazar changes history in the sixth season episode "My Heart Will Go On" so that the Titanic never sank, Ellen is restored to life and is married to Bobby.
Emily Ryerson (August 10, 1863 - December 28, 1939) was a first-class passenger who survived the sinking of RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.
The former Drawing Offices of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, once the largest shipyard in the world, where the RMS Titanic was designed and built.
By 1914 these beds were found in luxurious hotels, clubs and ocean liners, including The Queen Mary & The Titanic.
Widener Library, which opened with a solemn ceremony on June 24, 1915, commemorates Harry Elkins Widener (born January 3, 1885 in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania), a 1907 Harvard graduate, who was a book collector and victim of the Titanic disaster.
On 1 September 1985, a joint French-American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution identified the location of the wreck of the RMS Titanic which sank off the coast of Newfoundland 15 April 1912.