Women Reporters & The Titanic Story - Titanic Commutator - 4Q 2011

Front Cover of The Titanic Commutator: The Official Journal For The Titanic Historical Society, Inc. for Issue 196 for the 4th Quarter 2001. GGA Image ID # 1046efefd9

On the Front Cover: A striking illustration of Olympic steaming along near the end of her transatlantic voyage as a pilot boat stands by. The painting is by the noted maritime artist Charles Dixon.

This issue features an article about four newspaperwomen who reported on the Titanic disaster. Other items included a commentary on the Responsibility for the Titanic Disaster, The Oceanic House of the White Star Line and information about the 2012 Titanic Historical Society Convention next April.

CONTENT IN THIS ISSUE

• Oceanic House—White Star's London West End Offices
  By Paul Louden Brown
• Women Reporters and the Titanic Story
  By Michael Dupuis
• Katherine Hurd Writes about the Titanic Disaster Aftermath
  With thanks to Frances (Hurd) Stadler
• Titanic Centennial Memorial Donors and Dedication Weekend Convention
• The White Star Line, Ss Olympic, and the Panama Canal
  San Francisco Call Archives
• Tichnor Brothers and Selling the Titanic Disaster in 1912
  By Karen Kamuda
• Titanic Pigeon Forge Remembers the 100th Anniversary with a Rose Petal Ceremony
  By Karen Kamuda
• Responsibility for the Titanic Disaster
  From the Literary Digest May 4, 1912

Featured Article

• Sea Poste
  A couple of letters correcting the glass slide as Mauretania was Aquitania; what happened to Edith [Russell] Rosenbaum's pig? What was it made of?; a rivet from the Titanic?; information on the final identification of the unknown child in Fairview Lawn Cemetery is available; questions on original findings of an unidentified child in the same cemetery; questions about a deck chair purchased many years ago in South Australia.

BOOK REVIEWS

• How to Survive the Titanic or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
  by Frances Wilson
  reviewed by Paul Louden-Brown;
• RMS Titanic, Owners' Workshop Manual
  by David E Hutchings and Richard de Kerbrech
• France/Norway
  by John Maxtone-Graham
  reviewed by Tim Trower

Content Page Photos

Top (Not Shown): At Oceanic House, the basement full, the main booking hall overflows with passengers baggage as the staff tries to cope with high season demands.

Middle Right (Not Shown): Katherine Hurd scratched out "Saxonia" on the stationery heading while aboard Carpathia describing the Titanic disaster.

Bottom Right (Not Shown): Labeled "Titanic" the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse postcard postmarked May 14, 1912, was the wrong ship, wrong company, and departure: 'Departure at Liverpool."

Back Cover of The Titanic Commutator: The Official Journal For The Titanic Historical Society, Inc. for Issue 196 for the 4th Quarter 2001. GGA Image ID # 104741cfb1

On the Back Cover: A postcard of Oceanic House, published by the Company in 1905. The printing, like all White Star's postcards, was by the Liverpool Printing & Stationery Company. (Paul Louden-Brown collection)

Publication Information

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The Titanic Commutator
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