But only a privileged minority found room in the lifeboats and the rest either went down with the ship or quickly perished in an icy sea. After another two hours, survivors in lifeboats were picked up by Carpathia and brought to New York. She struck an iceberg off Newfoundland and sank two hours later. Her voyage was from Southampton across the Channel to Cherbourg, then to Queenstown (nowadays Cobh, the port for Cork), then out into the Atlantic towards New York. Yet over a century later, it's the story of Titanic that still resonates. It was at the time the world's worst maritime disaster, but in terms of lives lost, it now ranks about 80th - yes, eightieth - below more recent tragedies that have largely been forgotten. This page describes the sites associated with the ship, which has sailed into legend. RMS Titanic was a transatlantic liner which was considered luxurious and unsinkable, but sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912.
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