It’s 110 years since one of history’s most infamous calamities unfolded - the sinking of the Titanic.
For folk on Tyneside, in an age before instant mass communications, television, radio and the internet, many would have learned of the shocking news reading the pages of the Evening Chronicle. Our main story on Tuesday, April 16, 1912, carried the scarcely believable headline: Titanic sunk/2,358 souls on board/Enormous loss of life feared/875 reported saved.
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For folk on Tyneside, in an age before instant mass communications, television, radio and the internet, many would have learned of the shocking news reading the pages of the Evening Chronicle. Our main story on Tuesday, April 16, 1912, carried the scarcely believable headline: Titanic sunk/2,358 souls on board/Enormous loss of life feared/875 reported saved.
110 years since the Titanic sank - Tyneside connections and how we reported it
The Titanic was on her maiden voyage and 350 miles off Newfoundland when she hit an iceberg at around 11.40pm on Sunday, April 14, 1912, and sank with the loss of 1,517 lives
