“Their launch will signalize a most important era in marine achievement, for they will be by all odds, the largest vessels in the world.”-The Daytona Daily News
MediaConsidered the first international disaster, early reports of the sinking were almost entirely inaccurate.
"This afternoon New York received a wireless message from Halifax to the effect that most of the passengers on the Titanic had been put in lifeboats. A later message added that the White Star officials in New York had been informed that the Virginian was standing by, and that there was no danger of loss of life."-Belfast Telegraph 1912
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