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Fri 04 Apr 2010Descendants toll bell for Mayo 11 who perished on board 'Titanic'
THREE SLOW tolls of a church bell for each of 11 emigrants from one north Mayo parish drowned on RMS Titanicmarked the 98th anniversary of its sinking at a ceremony yesterday.
The bell ringers, several of whom are descendants of those lost, performed in St Patrick’s church, Lahardane, at 2.20am – the estimated time the ocean liner sank after it hit an iceberg off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks on April 15th, 1912.
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