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May 5, 2023 - 19:32 | | CBC News - Canada
It was more than 100 years ago tonight that RMS Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and foundered in just two hours and 40 minutes. The sinking would condemn more than 1,500 to die in the frigid North Atlantic, but someone conspicuously not among the dead that night was the ship’s chief baker Charles Joughin, who survived history’s worst maritime disaster by getting incredibly soused. To learn more, watch the Everything Should Be Better video, read the transcript below, or scroll down further for a more complete account of Joughin’s incredible tale of booze-soaked...
April 14, 2022 - 07:01 | Tristin Hopper | National Post
The RMS Titanic sank more than 100 years ago today, in the early morning of April 15, 1912. Below, we present one of the littler known aspects of the disaster, and an epic case of hard sleeping.
Every Titanic survivor remembered the screaming. Fifteen hundred people all plunged at once into waters that were minus two degrees Celsius, and begged for help in the 30 to 40 minutes that it took them to die. One survivor, Frank Goldsmith, was never again able...
April 14, 2021 - 20:46 | Tristin Hopper | National Post
