TITANIC TRAGEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 89, 15 April 1913, Page 11

TITANIC TRAGEDY.

ANNIVERSARY TO-MORROW. LONDON, April 9. Three American ladies, Mesdames Futrelle, Harris, and Thorne, all of whom lost their husbands in the Titanic wreck, will commemorate the anniversary of the great shipping catastrophe in a novel way. Towardß the middle of this month they will sail from Boston for England, their departure from the American port being so arranged that they will reach the scene of the disaster on the anniversary of the date on which the Titanic foundered. Then, in the darkness of early morn, they will each reverently cast. a wreath into the sea.

It will be twelve months to-morrow, the loth inst. since the great sea tragedy occurred by which over 1,500 lives were lost. The Titanic, while on her maiden voyage, struck an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast at about 10.30 on Sunday night, April 14, and sank a little after 1 o'clock on the morning of the loth. The big liner had on board 1,308 passengers and a crew of S9B, making 2,206 persons I in all, of whom only 703 were saved—493 passengers and 210 of the crew. With the hull and cargo of the Titanic £2,250,----000 of the underwriters' money went down to the bottom of the Atlantic. One of the ladies mentioned in to-day's cable message is the widow of Mr Jaques Futrelle, the novelist.