Titanic dead who left from Cobh to be remembered
A MEMORIAL service will be held in Cobh to remember the 123 people who boarded the Titanic from the Cork town, with only 44 of them surviving the infamous sinking.
Cobh Tourism is inviting the public to join the annual service at 3pm on April 14 at the Titanic Memorial in Pearse Square, where there will be music, prayers and the laying of wreaths.
Attendees will then gather at the promenade to hear the names of the 79 Cobh passengers who died on April 15, 1912.
Boats
All the people who boarded in Cork Harbour got onto two small boats that took them out to the Titanic, anchored off Roches Point.
One victim who boarded on April 11, 1912 from ‘Heartbreak Pier’ in Cobh (then named Queenstown) was Jeremiah Burke, of
Glanmire, who died on his 19th birthday.
At some point during the voyage, he threw a message in a bottle into the sea, and it washed up a year later near
Cork Harbour.
The handwritten message read: ‘From Titanic, Goodbye all, Burke of Glanmire Cork’.
The bottle is now on display at the Titanic exhibition in the Cobh Heritage Centre.
DIVERS battling heavy storms and strong currents discovered the remains of two construction workers still trapped in their pickup truck following the Baltimore Bridge tragedy.
Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes (35) from Mexico and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera (26) from Guatemala were located in 25 feet of water in their red pickup. Four others are missing, presumed dead.
The find came as it was claimed the disaster is likely to be the “biggest marine insurance loss in history”.
Both bodies were pulled from the frigid Patapsco River after the Dali container ship lost power and collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday.
All search efforts have been exhausted, and based on sonar scans, authorities “firmly” believe the victims are encased in material from the collapsed bridge.
The ship underwent “routine engine maintenance” in port before the tragedy.
Coast Guard Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath said authorities were informed that the ship was undergoing maintenance.
He said: “As far as the engine goes, we were not informed of any problems with the vessel.”