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GLOOM IN SOUTHAMPTON

In Southampton people to the last moment clung to the hope that better news of the Titanic would be received, but on Tuesday afternoon the whole town was overcome with gloom. Flags were at half-mast on the public buildings and in the docks, and a meeting

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WINCHESTER, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912

SOME OF THE LOST... Among those not accounted for are Mr. W. T. Stead, the famous journalist; Colonel J. J. Astor, the millionaire, whose young bride is saved; Captain E. J. Smith , R.N.R., the commander; Major A. W. Butt, President Taft's aide-de-camp

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RELIEF FUNDS

The Lord Mayor has opened a Mansion House fund for the relief of the sufferers from the disaster, which is being liberally contributed to. Among the earliest contributions received were sums of 500 guineas from King George and 250 guineas from Queen Mary

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FORECAST FULFILLED

How strangely imagination may anticipate history has seldom been more remarkably shown than in the disaster to the Titanic. It was foretold in many of its details in a curious little novel by Mr. Morgan Robertson, entitled "Futility," published in the

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April 20th 1912: WRECK OF THE TITANIC 1635 PERSONS DROWNED

Yesterday, after a most agonising suspence of four days, details of the loss of the great liner Titanic were received. The Carpathia, with 705 survivors, arrived at New York in the early hours of the morning. It now appears that there were 1400 passengeres

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BEREAVEMENTS IN THE CITY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

The first intimation in Winchester of the sad news of the wreck of the liner Titanic was received at the office of the Hampshire Chronicle at 10.44 a.m. on Monday morning, the following being a copy of the Central News telegram posted in our window shortly

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THE TITANIC DISATER

To the Editor of the Hampshire Chronicle... SIR,-The Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral had set apart next Sunday for collections for the Church Missionary Society, but having regard to the appalling disaster which has occurred, and the fact that almost

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Fire prevention through education

YOUNGSTERS at a Basingstoke school had fun dressing up as firefighters and finding out what it's like to drive a fire engine in an emergency. The visit to Hatch Warren Infant School was organised by the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Education Unit, which

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New life celebrated with planting of tree

A BABY from RAF Odiham has received a unique gift to cherish for the rest of her life. A mature walnut tree has been planted at the military base to commemorate the birth of six-month-old Sarah Woolverson, at the request of her proud mum, Yvonne. "I found

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Train company trying to get back on track

BOSSES at South West Trains have set up a task force in an attempt to tackle constant delays. The company's record of delays between October and December last year, which has just been published by the Strategic Rail Authority, were among the worst of

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Five years for pervert caught in net sting

A LORRY driver has been convicted of downloading and distributing indecent photographs of children following a joint internet chatroom sting operation between police in Hampshire and the United States. Clifford Winter, 56, of Hearsey Gardens, Blackwater

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Hop-a-long head leads the way to the eggs

HEADTEACHER Stephen Kelsey proved he was game for a laugh when he dressed up as the Easter Bunny. The head don-ned the seasonal costume to join in the fun as pupils at Silchester Primary School took part in an end-of-term Easter egg hunt. "This is the

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La Rue makes light of his visit

SHOWBIZ legend Danny La Rue - one of Britain's most popular and prolific entertainers - brightened up the day when he made a special guest appearance in Basingstoke on Saturday. The television, film, theatre and cabaret star came along to the G Wheeler

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Nightmare ordeal of beaten bobby

A POLICEMAN has told how he thought he was going to die after he was set upon by a brutal gang of thugs during a terrifying late night attack in Basingstoke. Pc Dave Smith (pictured) said it felt like he was being "attacked by a pack of dogs" when the

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Proctor in road race double

AMANDA Proctor continued her excellent build-up for the London marathon by winning the women's trophy at the Petersfield half-marathon. It was another outstanding run, in a personal best time, to follow victory at the Bramley 10-mile road race, where

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Bliss leads home Overton runners

A DETERMINED group of runners from Overton Harriers were confronted by blustery conditions and rain towards the end of the South's premier 10k road race at Eastleigh. Mike Bliss, improving with every race after a long lay-off, finished 19th overall and

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Town gift a goal to their Camrose conquerors

Basingstoke Town 1, Braintree Town 2 BRAINTREE completed a hat-trick of wins over Basingstoke Town this season with victory at the Camrose Ground on Saturday. That said, the home side deserved a point after having another penalty appeal turned down. Basingstoke

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Pipe victory celebrations muted

TRAINER Martin Pipe became the first jumps trainer to earn more than £2m in prize money in a single season when his five-year-old Ravenswood scored by one-and-a-quarter lengths at Newbury. The 5-2 favourite won under young jockey Tom Scudamore in Saturday's

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'Stoke keep cup in exciting final

BASINGSTOKE retained the Hamp-shire Cup with a thrilling 16-15 victory over arch-rivals Havant on Sunday. Yesterday afternoon's triumph means 'Stoke have now retained the cup for the second year running. The latest victory also means the FX-backed side

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The arrival of the Titanic: from the Hampshire Independent Saturday April 6th 1912

Quietly and unostentatiously, without any blare of trumpets, the Titanic, the world's latest and biggest ship, steamed up the silent waters of the Solent and docked at Southampton at midnight on Wednesday, taking the same berth in the new wet dock that

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WINCHESTER, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912 : WRECK OF THE TITANIC APPALLING LOSS OF LIVES WOMEN AND CHILD

A terrible disaster, unparalleled in the records of the sea, has overtaken the world's greatest ship, the White Star liner Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday in last week on her maiden voyage to New York. Shortly after ten o'clock on

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SCENES OF GRIEF IN LONDON

Throughout the whole of Tuesay London lived in an atmosphere of suspense waiting for the wireless messages which came through the air with their words of comfort or desolation, or, almost worst still, bringing neither the one nor the other, but leaving

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GLOOM IN SOUTHAMPTON

In Southampton people to the last moment clung to the hope that better news of the Titanic would be received, but on Tuesday afternoon the whole town was overcome with gloom. Flags were at half-mast on the public buildings and in the docks, and a meeting

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SOME FEATURES OF THE TITANC.

The Titanic, build by Harland and Wolff, has the same dimensions as the Olympic, which was also in collision last autumn, the other vessel being the cruiser Hawke, her length being 832ft, and her breadth 92ft. Her gross tonnage is, however, 43,682 or

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A LULLABY: APRIL 15th, 1912.

Ye mourners, be strong, be strong! Sing them a lullaby-song! They gave-thy men so brave- Themselves in a glorious trying, now richa nd poor are lying, Engulphed in a common gave. For them no sombre trappings-each in his hero wrappings- The cloak that

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The Wreck of the Titanic: April 20th, 1912

We direct attention to a letter from Canon Braithwaite (Vice-Dean) in another column stating that the offertories at the Cathedral tomorrow (Sunday), which were to have been set apart for the Church missionary Society, will now be given to the Mayor of

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Project aims to give youngsters choices

MORE than 500 teenagers in Southampton, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are set to take part in exciting new activities after a vital project received a £1.1m cash boost. South Central Activities for Young People, a project run by Hampshire County Council

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Jubilee sculpture to be built

A UNIQUE sculptured wrought iron gate will be built off Fareham's West Street at a cost of £20,000 to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee. The elaborate gates will span the former Portland Street and ultimately will welcome shoppers into Fareham's ambitious

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Albion Band have a spring in their step

MUSIC from the stage and screen is given a brassy makeover at The Point, Eastleigh next week. The City of Southampton (Albion) Band present their spring concert, featuring music from the worlds of theatre and cinema, at the arts centre on Saturday, April

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Shrimps removed from sale

ENVIRONMENTAL health officers on the Isle of Wight have moved to ensure batches of contaminated warm-water shrimps and prawns are removed from sale following a health warning from the Food Standards Agency. The agency was alerted by the European Commission

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LEG 5 - DAY 17: LEADER BOARD

ASSA ABLOY and Tyco, lying in second and third place respectively, have closed the gap on overall race-leader illbruck to just 21 miles. 1 illbruck 2 ASSA ABLOY 3 Tyco 4 SEB 5 News Corporation 6 Amer Sports One 7 djuice 8 Amer Sports Too

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BRIDGE ON THE BRINK

WAYNE Bridge today stands on the threshold of realising his World Cup dream after winning selection for Sven-Goran Eriksson's 27-man squad to face Italy at Elland Road on Wednesday. More importantly for the Southampton defender, the England coach chose

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Southampton Yacht Club's Spring Series - Race 2

Victory for X-Parrot, Big Boys Toys and Shakatak in Southampton Yacht Club's Spring Series Race 2 - Sunday 24 March 2002 The second race of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club's Spring series on Sunday 24 March saw a south easterly breeze of 15 knots. The

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RIX SACKED

GRAHAM RIX's troubled tenure as manager of Portsmouth finally came to an end today. Pompey officials called a lunchtime press conference to announce Rix's departure from Fratton Park, giving way to director of football Harry Redknapp taking temporary

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The arrival of the Titanic: from the Hampshire Independent Saturday April 6th 1912

Quietly and unostentatiously, without any blare of trumpets, the Titanic, the world's latest and biggest ship, steamed up the silent waters of the Solent and docked at Southampton at midnight on Wednesday, taking the same berth in the new wet dock that

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WINCHESTER, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912: WRECK OF THE TITANIC

A terrible disaster, unparalleled in the records of the sea, has overtaken the world's greatest ship, the White Star liner Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday in last week on her maiden voyage to New York. Shortly after ten o'clock on

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TERRIBLE STORY TOLD BY CABLE

A Standard New York cablegram, dated New York, Tuesday, says:- "The most appalling disaster in Mercantile Marine history has resulted, so far as can at present be ascertained, in the death of 1,252 souls and the rescue of 868. All the latter are on board

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SCENES OF GRIEF IN LONDON

Throughout the whole of Tuesay London lived in an atmosphere of suspense waiting for the wireless messages which came through the air with their words of comfort or desolation, or, almost worst still, bringing neither the one nor the other, but leaving

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UNIVERSAL SORROW.

The whole civilised world has been thrown into grief by the unparalleled disaster to the Titanic, and already this universal feeling has been expressed in a very striking way. The following message was received last night by the White Star Company:-"The

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SOME FEATURES OF THE TITANC

The Titanic, build by Harland and Wolff, has the same dimensions as the Olympic, which was also in collision last autumn, the other vessel being the cruiser Hawke, her length being 832ft, and her breadth 92ft. Her gross tonnage is, however, 43,682 or

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PREVIOUS WRECKS: GREAT DISASTERS OF PAST TWENTY YEARS

The tragic fate of the Titanic naturally recalls other great disasters within memory. In the past twenty years the principal wrecks have been as follows:- H.M.S. Victoria, sunka fter collision with H.M.S. Camperdown, June 22nd, 1893 ... 359 Elbe, sunk

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A LULLABY: APRIL 15th, 1912

Ye mourners, be strong, be strong! Sing them a lullaby-song! They gave-thy men so brave- Themselves in a glorious trying, now richa nd poor are lying, Engulphed in a common gave. For them no sombre trappings-each in his hero wrappings- The cloak that

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WINCHESTER "TITANIC RELIEF FUND"

To the Editor of the Hampshire Chronicle... SIR,-The appalling catastrophe of the loss of "The Titanic" with such a huge loss of life has stirred the hearts of the people of our own and of all nations. It cannot yet be estimated how many families are

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Thousands to be spent on expelled pupils

EDUCATION bosses at Hampshire County Council have set aside £365,000 next year to pay for tutors for pupils barred from school. New rules mean excluded pupils are entitled to 25 hours of tutoring per week, compared with just 14.5 hours at present. County

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Community set to get a council-funded warden

THE BOROUGH'S first community warden is set to be appointed in the Buckskin area of Basingstoke as the council's Cabinet is recommended to approve £10,000 funding for the post. "This is a pilot scheme that will be ahead of the Government's recommendations

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In Port

Today's Principal Arrivings: Autosun, ro/ro, 0600, 201; Sormovskiy 3055, misc, 0800, 36; Bonn Express,container, 1400, 204; APL Garnet, container, 2000, 207; P&O Nedlloyd Shackleton, container, 2000, 206. Today's Principal Sailings: Nordsee, container

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Water End lose title chance

Barbican 3, Water End 1 THE SEASON has fallen apart for Reggie Eccott's Water End. At the beginning of the month, all they had to do was win their remaining three matches and they would have been division one champions. After losing two of these matches

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New Inn appeal on nine-point penalty

NEW Inn, the Basingstoke and District Saturday champions, have appealed to the Hampshire FA over a deduction of nine points. The punishment came from the league's Saturday section committee after New Inn fielded Tim Montague, who had been on general suspension

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Johannesburg could be new all-round star

IN A single week, the climax of the National Hunt season gives way to the start of the Flat and this year, more than ever, Godolphin's quest to win the Kentucky Derby is expected to reach Everest-like heights. Sheikh Mohammed's dream is to saddle the

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From The Hampshire Independent: A HUGE CALAMITY

The civilised world is suffering from the shock of a huge calamity, the sorrow attending which is brought home with particular force to our own town of Southampton. The loss of the White Star liner Titanic is a disaster of a magnitude which is unparalled

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TERRIBLE STORY TOLD BY CABLE

A Standard New York cablegram, dated New York, Tuesday, says:- "The most appalling disaster in Mercantile Marine history has resulted, so far as can at present be ascertained, in the death of 1,252 souls and the rescue of 868. All the latter are on board

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WINCHESTER, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912

SOME OF THE LOST... Among those not accounted for are Mr. W. T. Stead, the famous journalist; Colonel J. J. Astor, the millionaire, whose young bride is saved; Captain E. J. Smith , R.N.R., the commander; Major A. W. Butt, President Taft's aide-de-camp

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UNIVERSAL SORROW

The whole civilised world has been thrown into grief by the unparalleled disaster to the Titanic, and already this universal feeling has been expressed in a very striking way. The following message was received last night by the White Star Company:-"The

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RELIEF FUNDS

The Lord Mayor has opened a Mansion House fund for the relief of the sufferers from the disaster, which is being liberally contributed to. Among the earliest contributions received were sums of 500 guineas from King George and 250 guineas from Queen Mary

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FORECAST FULFILLED

How strangely imagination may anticipate history has seldom been more remarkably shown than in the disaster to the Titanic. It was foretold in many of its details in a curious little novel by Mr. Morgan Robertson, entitled "Futility," published in the

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GREAT DISASTERS OF PAST TWENTY YEARS

The tragic fate of the Titanic naturally recalls other great disasters within memory. In the past twenty years the principal wrecks have been as follows:- H.M.S. Victoria, sunka fter collision with H.M.S. Camperdown, June 22nd, 1893 ... 359 Elbe, sunk

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April 20th 1912 : WRECK OF THE TITANIC 1635 PERSONS DROWNED

Yesterday, after a most agonising suspence of four days, details of the loss of the great liner Titanic were received. The Carpathia, with 705 survivors, arrived at New York in the early hours of the morning. It now appears that there were 1400 passengeres

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BEREAVEMENTS IN THE CITY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

The first intimation in Winchester of the sad news of the wreck of the liner Titanic was received at the office of the Hampshire Chronicle at 10.44 a.m. on Monday morning, the following being a copy of the Central News telegram posted in our window shortly

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WINCHESTER "TITANIC RELIEF FUND"

To the Editor of the Hampshire Chronicle... SIR,-The appalling catastrophe of the loss of "The Titanic" with such a huge loss of life has stirred the hearts of the people of our own and of all nations. It cannot yet be estimated how many families are

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THE TITANIC DISATER

To the Editor of the Hampshire Chronicle... SIR,-The Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral had set apart next Sunday for collections for the Church Missionary Society, but having regard to the appalling disaster which has occurred, and the fact that almost

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Basketball: Scott threatens extra training for Stars after loss

SOLENT STARS' coach Mark Scott is threatening his squad with extra training sessions this week after letting the Kingston Wildcats off the leash to suffer a surprise 96-92 mauling. For the fourth time this season on their travels, Solent held a double-figure

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BATTLE ZONE

RESIDENTS armed with knives, baseball bats and hurling bricks clashed with police as part of Southampton was turned into a battle zone last night. And today the city's leading police officer appealed for public calm after the riots which brought chaos

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Benefit system's good and bad points

SOUTHAMPTON City Council has sound systems in place for administering Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit - but has inconsistent standards of verifying claims. That's the main finding of a report published by the Benefit Fraud Inspectorate - part

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Sculpture to mark Queen's Jubilee

A UNIQUE sculptured wrought iron gate will be built off Fareham's West Street at a cost of £20,000 to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee. The elaborate gates will span the former Portland Street and ultimately will welcome shoppers into Fareham's ambitious

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BRISTOL CITY YOUTH 2 - SAINTS YOUTH 0

Saints fielded young academy sides on Saturday as some of the scholars played on trial for other clubs around the country. The under-19s travelled to face Bristol City at Clifton College, and lost 2-0 in a highly controversial match. Saints started slowly

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Historic Watch goes on sale

A HISTORIC watch which stopped at exactly the time the ill-fated Titanic sank beneath the waves of the north Atlantic is expected to sell for around £25,000 when it is auctioned in Southampton in April. Chauffeur, John Gill, 24, perished along with 1,520

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Titanic poetry competition

DON"T forget to enter the latest Daily Echo Poetry and Short Story Competition. The competition is in two categories, Short Story and Poetry. The winners in each category will be published in the Creative Writing Supplement to be published on May 18,

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Titanic Wireless Commemorative Group worldwide linkup

THE HEROIC actions of one of the ill-fated Titanic's radio operators are set to be commemorated in April. Jack Phillips died 90 years ago on April 15 along with nearly 1,500 others on board the doomed vessel. Mr Phillips was chief telegraphist on the

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Radio link-up for Titanic Wireless Commemorative Group

THE HEROIC actions of one of the illfated Titanic's radio operators are set to be commemorated in April. Jack Phillips died 90 years ago on April 15 along with nearly 1,500 others on board the doomed vessel. Mr Phillips was chief telegraphist on the liner

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Titanic Poetry

Would you like to see your short story or poem in print and win a cash prize" Enter the latest Daily Echo Short Story Competition - and you could join the growing ranks of talented new writers being discovered by the Daily Echo each quarter. The competition

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