Titanic Artifacts ~ Original Deck Chair Exhibit. Titanic Inquiry Project - Electronic copies of British and American inquiries into the disaster. Titanic ~ Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Exhibits. Titanic ~ The Unsinkable Ship and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Titanic History On April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic left Southampton, England on her maiden voyage.
After stops at Cherbourg, France and Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, she steamed for New York, USA carrying over 2,200 passengers and crew. Four days later, on Sunday, April 14 at 11:40 pm, Titanic struck a giant iceberg and by 2:20 am on April 15, the “unsinkable ship” was gone. Welcome to the Titanic & Nautical Resource Center. Titanic-Titanic.com. Titanic International Society. Titanic's Unknown Child Given New, Final Identity. Five days after the passenger ship the Titanic sank, the crew of the rescue ship Mackay-Bennett pulled the body of a fair-haired, roughly 2-year-old boy out of the Atlantic Ocean on April 21, 1912.
Along with many other victims, his body went to a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the crew of the Mackay-Bennett had a headstone dedicated to the "unknown child" placed over his grave. When it sank, the Titanic took the lives of 1,497 of the 2,209 people aboard with it. Some bodies were recovered, but names remained elusive, while others are still missing. RMS Titanic: New Acquisitions. Anything Titanic. Titanic's Unknown Child Given New, Final Identity.