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This is where the Titanic was at this time exactly 100 years ago

Interactive map shows that the ship would have been off the southwestern coast of Ireland, having left Cobh at 1.30pm on this day in 1912.

THIS DAY 100 years ago, the doomed Titanic liner departed Cobh (then Queenstown), Co Cork at 1.30pm.

It had started sea trials from Belfast on 2 April 1912, entered Southampton in England on 3 April, set sail at noon on 10 April to pick up more passengers at Cherbourg in France and then arrive in Cobh at 11.30am the following day. Two hours later, it left the Co Cork harbour on what was to be its longest leg – across the Atlantic. As we know, it never completed that leg, hitting an iceberg on 14 April and sinking in the early hours of 15 April 1912.

This interactive map on the Belfast Titanic museum’s new website is live-tracking the voyage progress as it would have happened 100 years ago.

As of 7.30pm on 11 April 2012, this is where the Titanic lay, making fine progress off the southwestern coast of Ireland:

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    Jul 17th 2012, 3:09 PM

    Good work.

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    Jul 17th 2012, 3:42 PM

    Well done Gardai. !!!

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    Jul 17th 2012, 3:17 PM

    Great news, I felt uneasy being in there today!

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    Jul 17th 2012, 4:20 PM

    Fair play to the Gardai.

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    Jul 17th 2012, 4:21 PM

    that Post Office is isolated from the Main Road …great result of Gardai

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    Jul 17th 2012, 6:17 PM

    Good work Gardai! I can’t help wondering if all the recent post and cash transport robberies are connected. They occurred in a cluster and the arrests are happening in a cluster as well. One wonders if there wasn’t an unerased white board at the first arrest location with “get shotgun to Denis after the transport job” “Buy new hammer” and “have Claudia steal another car” scribbled on it.

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