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thisishampshire.net	SOUTHAMPTON LOSES OUT TO BELFAST OVER TITANIC CENTENARY Both cities, each with a long maritime history and close connections with the ill-fated liner, are aiming to attract international attention when the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking is commemorated in April 2012. Now it seems Belfast has clinched the prized top position with not only the construction of a major £97m visitor attraction dedicated to the White Star ship, but also by the announcement of a unique partnership between the Ulster city and the American deep-sea explorer who found the liner’s wreck in 1985...	2nd November 2011
thisishampshire.net	FIRST CLASS TITANIC TIE TO TRAGEDY - THIS IS HAMPSHIRE.NET A Titanic deck plan owned by an elderly couple who were depicted in the hit movie lying in bed together as the ship sank is set to sell for £50,000. Ida and Isidor Straus drowned side by side in the disaster after she refused a place on a lifeboat to remain with her husband. ...	14th October 2011
thisishampshire.net	£450000 CONTRACT TO PROMOTE SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC-THEMED MUSEUM DOZENS of firms are likely to compete for a contract worth up to £450,000 to promote Southampton’s flagship Titanic-themed museum. City leisure chiefs says 45 firms, many local, have expressed an interest in the £90,000-a-year contract to market the £15m Sea City attraction, which is due to open in April next year. ...	15th August 2011
thisishampshire.net	SOUTHAMPTON AND BELFAST'S TITANIC MEMORIALS TAKE SHAPE AHEAD OF ANNIVERSARY THEY have both been billed as landmark tourist attractions to mark the 100th anniversary of Titanic's tragic maiden voyage. But council heritage bosses behind a £15m Titanic museum in Southampton have shrugged off ......	13th April 2011
thisishampshire.net	TITANIC VISION FOR £30M MUSEUM A MULTI-MILLION-POUND tourist attraction commemorating the Titanic disaster is today exclusively revealed by the Daily Echo.The west wing of the Civic Centre, home to the police station and old magistrates' courts, would be transformed into a £30m museum celebrating Southampton's history if the city council's vision is realised....	25th July 2008
thisishampshire.net	MILLVINA DEAN TO MISS TITANIC COMMEMORATIONS Ill-health has forced Millvina Dean, the last living survivor of the infamous sinking of the liner Titanic to cancel a public appearance she was due to make on Friday....	10th April 2008
thisishampshire.net	TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES ONE of the two last survivors of the 1912 sinking of the ill-fated Southampton liner, Titanic, has died.Throughout her life, Barbara West Dainton shunned publicity, refusing to talk about the loss of the Titanic and in the end she insisted her funeral, held earlier this week in Truro, was to take place before any public announcement of her death....	7th November 2007