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The first Titanic voyage in 14 years is happening in the wake of submersible tragedy. Hopes are high
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic is undertaking its first expedition to the ship’s wreckage in years ... The voyage arrives as the worldwide ...
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Ghostwalking in Titanic
The PromenadeLights from a submersible penetrate the rusted ruin of Titanic’s first-class promenade ... Millionaire John Jacob Astor IV put his 18-year-old wife into lifeboat 4 through a ...
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The Culinary Legacy Of RMS Titanic
The April 14 ... the voyage. What was the ship’s bar menu like? VH: The Titanic sailed on the cusp of Prohibition but little did anyone suspect what was about to happen in just a few years.
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Titanic sub dive reveals parts are being lost to sea
The first people to dive down to the Titanic in nearly 15 years say some of the wreck is ... hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912. Of the 2,200 passengers ...
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A famed Jewish doctor survived the Titanic — and then took his own life
(JTA) — No one knows the exact number of Jews who were sailing on the Titanic, which struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from ... Fifteen years later, on March 14, 1927, JTA reported on ...
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Raising The Titanic’s Radio Room
Few ships have been as unlucky as the RMS Titanic, sinking as she did on the night of April 15, 1912 after raking across an iceberg on her maiden voyage, and no ship has grabbed as much popular ...
BBC7y
The 'merman' facing a Titanic mission
Submersible pilot David Lochridge is preparing to take paying passengers down 2.4 miles to the wreck of the Titanic. The 45-year ... of first-class passage on the ill-fated Titanic voyage in ...
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‘Poignant’ postcard from excited Titanic passenger up for auction
A postcard written by a first-class passenger on the Titanic will go up for auction later this month. Richard William Smith, ...
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Years before the Titanic sank, two mysterious books were published that seemed to predict the disaster
The Titanic disaster has inspired countless stories. That's not surprising. A luxury ocean liner sinking into the freezing Atlantic Ocean on its maiden voyage ... The first work was written ...
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Titanic postcard sent to Norwich to be sold at auction
The 57-year-old merchant was one of around 1,500 people to lose their lives when the ship hit an iceberg off the coast of Canada just three days later on April 14 ... first and foremost. The postcard ...
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A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804
His notes from the voyage were first published in 1805, and an abridged version appeared a year later. This expanded edition was published in 1813. Popular at the time due to growing public interest ...
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First Titanic voyage in 14 years happening in wake of submersible tragedy. Hopes are high
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic is undertaking its first expedition to the ship’s wreckage in years ... implosion The voyage arrives as the ...