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Titanic: Original Footage (1900)

1900 · Silent film

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Period footage of a large ocean liner, identified as the Titanic; the ship's identity is unconfirmed.

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LUSITANIA: As I suspected, this is not the Titanic, but rather the Lusutania · JoeyBrooklyn · 2024-02-18

Lusitania was an ocean liner that was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906 and held the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908. It was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of the Mauretania three months later. She was sunk on her 202nd trans-Atlantic crossing, on 7 May 1915, by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,199 passengers and crew. It was the greatest and most deadly shipwreck in history up until that point and remained so until the sinking of the Titanic, also a Cunard line ship.

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