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Smith perished when the Titanic sank. Flashing intertitle reads: [ C-Q-D Help! Help! We are sinking! ] CQD (transmitted in Morse code) was one of the first distress signals adopted for Marconi radio use, only just being replaced by SOS in 1912. Intertitle: [ The Graveyard of the Sea - Icebergs and Icefloes near the scene of the disaster.]
RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean.The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time) [a] on 14 April.
The building and sinking of the Titanic took place at the same time as the debates on Irish Home Rule. [48] In the radio play The Iceberg (1975), Stewart Parker , a Northern Irish playwright , allows the ghosts of two shipyard workers who perished during the construction of the Titanic to speak about the Northern Ireland conflict .
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The events of the Titanic sinking have been popularized with dozens of books, documentaries and Hollywood feature films, including the 1997 blockbuster directed by James Cameron and starring ...
The sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 14–15, 1912 resulted in an inquiry by a subcommittee of the Commerce Committee of the United States Senate, chaired by Senator William Alden Smith. The hearings began in New York on April 19, 1912, later moving to Washington, D.C., concluding on May 25, 1912 with a return visit to New York.
Titanic: The Complete Story is a 1994 American two-part documentary chronicling the story of the ocean liner RMS Titanic which sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. It is a compilation of a four-hour documentary special produced by A&E Television Networks in 1994.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet still remain close pals, even nearly 30 years after Titanic!. On Tuesday, Nov. 19, DiCaprio, who celebrated his 50th birthday on Nov. 11, posed with Winslet, 49 ...