Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
April 15, 1912
Four days out of Southampton the largest ship ever built struck an iceberg on a glassy North Atlantic night. There were lifeboats for only half the two thousand two hundred aboard. Fifteen hundred drowned or froze in black water. The century's faith in engineering progress took its first very public wound.
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