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RMS Titanic’s 100th Anniversary Nears
September 3rd, 2010 by admin
April 14, 2012 will mark the Titanic 100th anniversary. The sinking of this vessel marks one of the largest maritime tragedies in history. On April 10th 1912 the Titanic set out on it’s first maiden voyage to New York. After a few days at sea, lookouts spotted an iceberg in the distance. However, it was too late to do much and the Titanic was hit causing the hull to break and watertight compartments began to flood.Chaos erupted aboard the ship as passengers began to realize what was happening. Lifeboats were used, but the vessel was not equipped with enough lifeboats to save the number of people onboard. Eventually the Titanic sunk and over 1500 lives were lost.