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Description: | The churchwardens and parishioners wanted a memorial to be built in honour of seven men who were from the parish, who were lost when Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage, April 15 1912.
R.M.S Titanic sailed on her maiden voyage from the Port of Southampton, April 10 1912. She was to call at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown in Ireland. Her final destination was to be New York City.
However on her way from Ireland to New York city, she struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean and sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912. She took with her 1500 lives whilst only 750 survived.
The disaster had a great impact upon Southampton and the rest of Hampshire as many of her passengers and crew were from the local area. | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Record Office-Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | memorial petition White Star Line Titanic memorial Titanic | Temporal: | start=1912-11-18; end=1912-11-18; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Hampshire Record Office-Hampshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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