99 years on, Cobh pays tribute to Titanic victims

A SPECIAL commemoration to honour the victims of the Titanic sinking was held in Cobh yesterday just one day short of 99 years after the liner called to the Cork town on her ill-fated voyage from Southampton to New York.

On Thursday, April 11, 1912, 123 steerage passengers boarded the Titanic in Cobh which was at that time called Queenstown.

Four days later the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of over 1,500 lives, including 79 of those who boarded in Cobh.