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Featured anniversary | 10 April
1912: RMS Titanic sailed from Southampton
After leaving Southampton for New York, the liner called first at Cherbourg, France, and then Queenstown (known as Cobh since 1921) in Ireland, before travelling across the north Atlantic to America.
In the early hours of 15 April 1912, RMS Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean. The disaster claimed over 1,500 lives.
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