Titanic: the unsinkable ship

A vintage newspaper front page from The Boston Daily Globe, dated Tuesday evening, April 16, 1912, with large bold headlines reporting the Titanic disaster. The main headline reads: "ALL DROWNED BUT 868". Sub-headlines include "About 1232 Lost Lives in the Titanic’s Plunge, Greatest Sea Disaster for Years." The page features a dramatic illustration of the Titanic sinking, with lifeboats in the water and passengers escaping. Other headlines and articles include: "EXCITING EVENTS BEFORE TITANIC’S FINAL PLUNGE", "Virginian and Parisian Found None Alive.", "Women and Children Safe But Few Notable Men.", "Carpathia Has Survivors—On Way to New York.", "CHARLES M. HAYS SAVED.", "SOME WHO MAY BE SAVED", "NEARLY ALL MEN LOST.", "THROUGH FIELD OF ICE.", "TITANIC’S PASSENGER LISTS.", and "BAY STATE PEOPLE SAVED". The newspaper price is two cents, and the edition is marked as "EVENING EDITION—7:30 O’CLOCK".
706 survived. The Boston Daily Globe newspaper, from the Whitestar Lines website.

Titanic is a ship that will be familiar to most, and if you would like to listen to a podcast series about her, I can recommend Titanic: Ship of Dreams. It’s a 13 part series covering everything from the construction of the ship, to modern movies retelling the disaster, to the Titan submersible that blew up while diving to visit her.

There’s also Titanic’s Best Lifeboat, an episode of 99% Invisible discussing the issue of lifeboats on Titanic and on boats in general.

Oh, yeah! Jack & Rose could have survived on that door. There was room. But then she’d be 25 within a few years and too old for him anyway, so maybe it’s for the best how Titanic ended.