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WHITE STAR
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T.S.S.TITANIC.
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By Appointment
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CELEBRATED LINERS.-"WHITE STAR LINE.''
Raphaol Tuck & Soms "OHETTE” Postcard No. 9898
ART PUBLISHERS TO TMEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN.
T.S.8. "Titanic." The White Star triple-screw
steamer "Titanic," launched at Belfast 31st May, 1911, the
largest vessel afloat at the time, was a wonderful achieve-
ment of British shipbuilding, combined with the enterprise
of the owners. This modern leviathan was nearly 900 feet
long, 45,000 tons gross register, and 66,000 tons displace-
ment. The "Titanic,” in the White Star Line's mail and
passenger service between Southampton, Cherbourg,
Queenstown and New York, had accommodation for about
2,500 passengers, with a crew of 860. She was unhappily
wrecked on her maiden voyage--from Southampton to
New York-on April 15th, 1912, by collision with an ice-
berg, off the coast of Newfoundland, with the terrible
result that over sixteen hundred of those on board perished,
the ship and cargo, valued at some 25 millions sterling,
being a total loss.
Printeg in England
