Lot 240
R.M.S. Titanic, The Bangor Daily Commercial, full newspaper, evening edition dated April 19, 1912, 16 pages, 19 x 23½. Headline reads "Her Side Ripped As By Giant Can Opener". Full coverage of the Titanic disaster as reported by the Bangor, Maine press the day after the rescue ship Carpathia docked in New York. Typical all-over toning of front and verso, some chipping and page faults at right and bottom edges, else Fine.
Estimate 300 - 400
The Titanic sinking represents one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history, with over 1,500 passengers out of the roughly 2,300 aboard perishing in the frigid North Alantic waters off the coast of Newfoundland. The newspaper article cites 1,589 deaths and 745 survivors, both of which numbers are somewhat overstated compared to the final statistics.
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