Sunday 15 April 2012

100th Anniversary of the Titanic sinking

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and so I have dug out some related articles for your enjoyment. Here is the basics of the incident itself:




RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. One of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, she was built between 1909–11 by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. She carried 2,223 people.

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