The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg 97 years ago tonight about 350 miles from where I now sit in St. John's, Newfoundland. Just before midnight on April 14, 1912 the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912.There's a really interesting Titanic exhibit here in St. John's at the Johnson Geo Centre.
The only wireless radio station on land to receive a distress call from the Titanic was at Cape Race, Newfoundland.
I find the entire Titanic saga even more captivating now that we're in Newfoundland, I have seen an iceberg, and I have felt the frigid wind that tears through St. John's. I can only imagine what it felt like out on the water that tragic night almost a hundred years ago.
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