Re: 'The Titanic' on-line list [link] of doomed passengers (Apr. 14-15, 1912)
tuvo...@go.com
> "List of Titanic's doomed passengers goes online: Handwritten pages include
> names, details of people aboard ill-fated liner"
In orderto view to pages you need to:
[1] Register at the site (you can always lie about your identity)
[2] Download a proprietary image viewer (you can always rebuild your
hard drive afterwards)
If a browser can't render it I don't want to see it.
Charlene
> x-no-archive: yes
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> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18109589
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> "List of Titanic's doomed passengers goes online: Handwritten pages include
> names, details of people aboard ill-fated liner"
>
> REUTERS
> Updated: 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
>
> LONDON - The names, ages and professions of passengers listed on the Titanic's
> fateful journey have gone online for the first time, 95 years after the
> luxury ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage.
Actually, a full list including biographical information has been
available for almost 15 years online at Encyclopedia Titanica. This
recently released list happens to be the original one, and of course
has significant historical value, but there are a lot of errors. The
crew names were often deciphered incorrectly (the crewmembers wrote
their names down, which as you can imagine sometimes makes them
difficult to read) and a number of passengers were travelling under
assumed names. Also, at least one crewmember deserted the ship in Cork
to go visit his mother.
Maybe, however, this new list will stop every Tom, Dick, and Harry
from claiming that their great-aunt Tillie was on the Titanic "but got
off on the last boat". If every great-aunt Tillie or great-uncle Hiram
who claimed to have been on Titanic as it sailed had actually been
aboard, the ship would have sunk like a stone in Southampton Harbour.
wd43
Charlene
> On Apr 14, 3:01 pm, "A" <a...@hot.net> wrote:
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> > x-no-archive: yes
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> >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18109589
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> > "List of Titanic's doomed passengers goes online: Handwritten pages include
> > names, details of people aboard ill-fated liner"
> > [http://www.findmypast.com/titanicTranscript.action]
>
> > REUTERS
> > Updated: 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
>
> > LONDON - The names, ages and professions of passengers listed on the Titanic's
> > fateful journey have gone online for the first time, 95 years after the
> > luxury ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage.
>
> Actually, a full list including biographical information has been
> available for almost 15 years online at Encyclopedia Titanica. This
> recently released list happens to be the original one, and of course
> has significant historical value, but there are a lot of errors. The
> crew names were often deciphered incorrectly (the crewmembers wrote
> their names down, which as you can imagine sometimes makes them
> difficult to read) and a number of passengers were travelling under
> assumed names. Also, at least one crewmember deserted the ship in Cork
> to go visit his mother.
And of course now that I read the article again, this list is only of
the passengers, not the crew.
wd43