Titanic: 100 Years Later
A century after the “unsinkable” ocean liner sank to the bottom of the north Atlantic, Patch takes a moment to remember one of the worst — and certainly the most famous — maritime disasters in history.
As midnight approached on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic was steaming confidently toward New York Harbor on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, with 2,224 passengers and crew members aboard. Less than three hours later, the massive luxury liner that had been heralded as unsinkable lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, more than 1,500 of its passengers dead or on their way to perishing from exposure. Among the casualties that night were some of the richest and most notable people of the times, including Astor fortune heir John Jacob Astor IV, pioneering newspaperman and mystery writer Jacques Futrelle, noted American painter, sculptor and writer Francis David Millet and …
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Jeremie Smith
12:09 pm on Monday, October 31, 2011
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