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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic14.jpgThe Titanic just prior to being launched into the River Lagan for towing to a fitting-out berth where her engines, funnels and interiors would be installed, May 31, 1911. The Titanic was considered unsinkable but foundered in frigid Atlantic waters off Newfoundland after striking an iceberg. About 700 passengers survived in lifeboats, but some 1,500 perished in the sinking. Photograph: George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic13.jpgThe Titanic just prior to being launched into the River Lagan for towing to a fitting-out berth where her engines, funnels and interiors would be installed, May 31, 1911. Photograph: George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic12.jpgThe Titanic is launched into the River Lagan for towing to a fitting-out berth where her engines, funnels and interiors would be installed, May 31, 1911. Photograph: George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic6.jpgTitanic lifeboats on their way to the Carpathia following the sinking of the Titanic April 15, 1912. Photograph: George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic5.jpgTitanic lifeboats on their way to the Carpathia following the sinking of the Titanic April 15, 1912. Photograph: George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic1.jpgA boat from the ship MacKay-Bennett examines an overturned lifeboat from the Titanic in waters of the Atlantic in 1912. April 15, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The ship embarked on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York in 1912, only to sink under cold Atlantic waters after striking an iceberg. Photograph: Courtesy of Dalhousie University Archives and Special Collections, Halifax, N.S. Thomas Head Raddall Fonds/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic3.jpgTitanic dead are prepared for burial on the deck of the MacKay-Bennett off the Canadian coast in 1912. April 15, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Photograph: Courtesy of Dalhousie University Archives and Special Collections, Halifax, N.S. Thomas Head Raddall Fonds/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic7.jpgA group of survivors of the Titanic disaster aboard the Carpathia after being rescued, April 1912. Photograph: George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic8.jpgMr. & Mrs. G.A. Harder and Mrs. Charles M. Hayes, survivors of the Titanic disaster, talking aboard the Carpathia after being rescued, April 1912. Photograph: Library of Congress/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic9.jpgA crowd in New York awaiting survivors from the Titanic to arrive aboard the Carpathia following the sinking of the Titanic, April 18, 1912. Photograph: George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic2.jpgCoffins for the recovered bodies from the Titanic are seen in Halifax in 1912. Photograph: Courtesy of Dalhousie University Archives and Special Collections, Halifax, N.S. Thomas Head Raddall Fonds/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic10.jpgChild survivors of Titanic sinking, April 1912. Michel and Edmond Navratil of Nice, France, ages four and two, better known as the 'Titanic Orphans' were the only children rescued from the Titanic without a parent or guardian. The children, who spoke no English, were cared for by first-class French-speaking passenger Margaret Hays until their mother was located in France. Their father placed the two in the last lifeboat successfully launched from the Titanic. The Titanic was considered unsinkable but foundered in frigid Atlantic waters off Newfounland after striking an iceberg. Photograph: George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic11.jpgThe ‘Titanic Orphans’ Edmond and Michel Navratil, of Nice, France, on their mother Marcelle's lap after being reunited with her, 1912. Photograph: Library of Congress/Handout/Reuters
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The sinking of the Titanic
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/04/titanic4.jpgA child's shoes believed to be from the body of an unknown boy and recovered by the crew of the Mackay-Bennett, a cable-laying ship chartered by the White Star Line after the Titanic disaster, are seen in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax. Photograph: Paul Darrow /Reuters
