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| telegraph.co.uk | THE TITANIC SANK INTO THE DEPTHS OF HUMANKIND In Belfast yesterday, they put out at City Hall a plan of the RMS Titanic, drawn for the Board of Trade inquiry into its sinking, at 2.20am on April 15, 1912, in mid-Atlantic with the deaths of 1517 passengers and crew. Those statistics chill us still. ...... |
23rd April 2011 |  |
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| wimbledonguardian.co.uk | THE JOURNALIST WHO 'SANK' THE TITANIC Journalist W.T. Stead, one of the best known victims of the Titanic disaster exactly 100 years ago in April this year, was also one of Wimbledon’s most famous residents.William Thomas Stead (1849-1912) lived at Cambridge House, Wimbledon Park Road South (now part of Church Road). At 2.20am, 15 April 1912 he was on the world’s most famous ship as it sank into the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. ... |
6th January 2012 | |
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| guardian.co.uk | TITANIC ANNIVERSARY: THE IRISH VILLAGE WHERE THE SUFFERING STILL RUNS DEEP At precisely 2.20am on 15 April every year, a church bell is rung in the tiny County Mayo parish of Addergoole on the west coast of Ireland. As the sound echoes across the slopes of Nephin mountain and the surrounding boglands, residents gather in the churchyard to remember the night that changed the parish for ever. It was at this exact time that RMS Titanic disappeared into the inky waters of the Atlantic. The parish was then home to just a few hundred people, but 14 of them were on board the Titanic. It is believed to have been the greatest loss from the disaster suffered by any area. As the 100th anniversary approaches, residents say that it is impossible not to feel a connection with those emigrants who set out from the village a century ago – only three of the 14 survived and just one returned, though only briefly. Their loss is still felt keenly.... |
18th March 2012 | |
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| ADDERGOOLE'S ANNUAL RINGING OF THE TIMONEY BELL Three members ring the Timoney Bell in daylight... |
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| NEW TITANIC THEMED CHURCH STAINED GLASS WINDOW FOR LAHARDANE, IRELAND'S TITANIC VILLAGE Addergoole Titanic Society St Patrick’s Church in Lahardane Village, Ballina, Co Mayo, Ireland gets two new windows with the themes Titanic Rescue and Emigration. ... |
10th December 2011 | ||||
