1,517 passengers die as Titanic hits iceberg and sinks on maiden voyage

Category
Disaster
Place
Global
Date
1912
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Her complement of just twenty lifeboats was enough to carry only half her 2,200 crew and passengers, and some of them were launched half empty. The next morning the liner Carpathia rescued 705 survivors, but 1,517 people, including Titanic's captain Edward Smith, went down with the ship." [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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