Volume 12 , Issue 15

1912 - The RMS Titanic

On April 10, 1912 (about 98 years ago today, April 10, 2010) the RMS Titanic sailed from Southampton with 2,200 passengers and crew. Four days later the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank. 1500 people died and 700 survived.



The RMS Titanic was a British registered four funnelled ocean liner built for the transatlantic passenger and mail service between Southampton and New York. Constructed at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, Titanic was on her maiden voyage and at that time, the largest vessel afloat.

Some of the Titanic Passengers:

STEAD, Mr William Thomas, age 62, 1st Class, 113514, £26 11s, Southampton, Journalist. Until his death Stead continued to preach "peace through arbitration" and when he boarded the Titanic in Southampton he was traveling to America to take part in a peace congress at Carnegie Hall on 21 April at the request of the President William Howard Taft. Stead occupied cabin C-87 (? C-89) but while the ship sank he sat quietly reading a book in the First Class Smoking Room. The world famous news journalist W.T. Stead perished onboard the RMS Titanic.

Everyone should remember the "Unsinkable "Molly" Margaret Brown (née Tobin).

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