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Description: | A photograph of the liner RMS Titanic sailing out of Southampton, England, on her maiden voyage to the United States, taken by William J. Day (1854-1939) on 10 April 1912. The RMS Titanic was built in 1911 for White Star Lines. Together with her sister ships Olympic and Britannic the Titanic was designed to be the largest ocean liner of her time. On 14 April 1912 the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg mid-Atlantic and sank. Of the 2,227 passengers and crew only 705 survived. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | carbon print photograph | Temporal: | 1912 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Day, William J (1854-1939) | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/20178 | Go to resource |
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