The night was April 15, 1912. The weather was fair, and the ship was the greatest ever conceived by the human mind and built by human hands. She was on her maiden voyage, the last long leg of which was to take her from the port town of Cobh, in Ireland (pronounce it “COVE,” as that’s what it means; it’s just the Gaelic way to spell the English word), …
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