The RMS Titanic leaves port

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VIA: Stair na hÉireann / History of Ireland

ON THIS DAY: in 1912 – The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.

At 7.30am, Captain Edward J. Smith boards Titanic with full crew. Third class passengers embarked at 9.30, followed by second and first class. Titanic sets sail from Southampton at noon heading for Cherbourg. Even before she leaves the harbour, there was disarray. The swell caused by the giant ship created a suction that broke the mooring ropes of the City of New York. A collision was narrowly avoided when Titanic’s captain, Edward Smith, ordered the ship to reverse. Reports suggest that the ships were within 10 feet of each other before matters were brought under control.



Image | Titanic underway after the near-collision with SS City of New York. On the left can be seen Oceanic and New York.

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Stair na hÉireann / History of Ireland

ON THIS DAY IN 1912 – THE TITANIC STOPPED OF AT QUEENSTOWN (NOW COBH), CO CORK.

The doomed ship anchored two miles off shore at Roches Point as the port could not accommodate a ship of its size. 123 mainly 3rd class passengers who had paid 15, 10 shillings for a one way trip embarked. Eight people who boarded at either Southampton or Cherbourg disembarked. Only 48 of the Queenstown passengers would survive. Those who would die included 18-year-old Mary Delia Burns from Sligo, 20-year-old Katherine Buckley from Cork. One of the passengers who disembarked was Frank Brown, then training for Jesuit priesthood. Brown took the only photographs of the Titanic’s final stop that are known to survive. Brown had been gifted a ticket for the Southampton-Queenstown part of Titanic’s fateful voyage.

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RMS Titanic is in Cobh, Ireland.

On this day and in this moment April 10, 1912, around 1:55 pm 110 years ago symbolic photograph which captures a historical moment was taken.


Taken in Queenstown (now Cobh) by Father Francis Brown from the tender Ireland.

It is a poignant view of RMS Titanic weighing anchor for the last time. Besides, this photo's good angle point at some 6,5 meters below the water line, the very spot where RMS Titanic will receive her fatal wound from the iceberg.



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