A great marine disaster which shocked the world occurred 23 years ago on Sunday week, when the Titanic —a White Star liner of 45,000 tons —collided with an iceberg off the Newfoundland const while on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. The ship sank and 1635 lives wore lost out of a complement of 2310 . At that time the Titanic shared with her sister ship, the. Olympic; the distinction of being the largest ship afloat. She had been equipped with extremely elaborate safety devices, and one of the most tragic circumstances of the disaster was that many people who were unablo to escape in the lifeboats believed that the Titanic could not sink because of these.appliances,
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12534, 22 April 1935, Page 2
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