Titanic

Again, with more stories and articles from around the world in the days following the sinking of the Unsinkable Titanic.

This is from the El Paso Herald, (Texas, USA), 16 Apr 1912:

I like this entry, as it takes into account just the truths, not hopeful wishes, not fragmentary comments that are more "chinese whispers" than truth.

It states, categorically, that the Titanic did not carry enough boats. It also states a better idea of survivor numbers and numbers of those missing, presumed lost.

It puts to bed the idea, once and for all, that the Titanic was anything more than another passenger liner, albeit the largest and most magnificent in the world at the time. She was a ship who met a tragic end, with a huge loss of life. Because of this, she goes into the history books. If she had made her maiden voyage safely, and continued to sail in the years after, she would most likely have been converted into a war ship of some sort in WW1, and then either become another casualty of that war (or the war that followed) or broken up for scrap in the decades afterwards.

It is the sad truth of a ship's life.