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After leaving Queenstown, Titanic followed the Irish coast as far as Fastnet Rock, [140] a distance of some 55 nautical miles (63 mi; 102 km). From there the voyage of 1,620 nautical miles (1,860 mi; 3,000 km) along a Great Circle route across the North Atlantic, reached a spot in the ocean known as "the corner", southeast of Newfoundland ...
Mauretania was on a westbound voyage from Liverpool to New York, beginning 13 April 1912, and was docked at Queenstown, Ireland, at the time of the RMS Titanic disaster. Mauretania was transporting Titanic ' s cargo manifest carried by registered mail.
The Titanic arrived at Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland at 12:30 pm, and picked up the last of her passengers. She then departed for New York City with 2,208 people on board. [ 34 ]
Part of Titanic's iconic front tip has fallen off at the bottom of the ocean, researchers report.. The prow inspired one of the most famous scenes in James Cameron's 1997 film about the shipwreck ...
Cobh (/ ˈ k oʊ v / KOHV, Irish: An Cóbh), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. With a population of 14,418 inhabitants at the 2022 census , [ 2 ] Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal .
PS America was a paddle wheel steamship of the White Star Line, built in 1891.Together with her sister ship PS Ireland, she tendered the various White Star Liners which stopped to embark passengers at Queenstown, Ireland (now Cobh).
The tragedy of the Titanic sinking, which killed more than 1,500 people, was made into a hit blockbuster movie in 1997 and earned more than $600 million during its original release in the United ...
Joseph Bell was the first son of John Bell Sr. and Margaret Watson, both agricultural entrepreneurs. He grew up in Farlam, a small village in the Rural District of Brampton, in the county of Cumberland; he had three siblings: Jane (1864), Richard (1865) and John Jr. (1868). [1]