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Titanic: One of history’s greatest scoops landed by Belfast Telegraph.
In 1912 the newspaper reported the sinking of the Titanic on the same day that the liner went down in the north Atlantic — an amazing feat for the time.
The Tele was the first newspaper in Europe to report the collision with an iceberg, after a telegram was sent to the newsroom alerting it of the disaster in what remains the earliest documented notification of the disaster.
The message — on Post Office paper and sent to the Belfast Telegraph's Royal Avenue office, the largest selling newspaper in Titanic's home city of Belfast, on April 15, 1912. It was received by sub-editor Robert ‘Bob’ McComb. Its author quoted a Reuters report as the source of the news and described the famous luxury liner as ‘sinking in mid-Atlantic’.
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In 1912 the newspaper reported the sinking of the Titanic on the same day that the liner went down in the north Atlantic — an amazing feat for the time.
The Tele was the first newspaper in Europe to report the collision with an iceberg, after a telegram was sent to the newsroom alerting it of the disaster in what remains the earliest documented notification of the disaster.
The message — on Post Office paper and sent to the Belfast Telegraph's Royal Avenue office, the largest selling newspaper in Titanic's home city of Belfast, on April 15, 1912. It was received by sub-editor Robert ‘Bob’ McComb. Its author quoted a Reuters report as the source of the news and described the famous luxury liner as ‘sinking in mid-Atlantic’.
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