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ABOARD MS BALMORAL (AP) — With prayers, a hymn and a moment of silence broken by a ship's deep whistle, passengers and crew on a memorial trip marked 100 years to the moment since the Titanic sent more than 1,500 people to a watery grave.

As the 1912 disaster was commemorated around the world, the city that built the vessel — Belfast, Northern Ireland — looked back on the tragic sinking with a distinctive mixture of sorrow and pride.

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Titanic tale has Pequot Lakes connection 04/15/12 - 3:24pm

As a 17-year-old, Bertha Lehmann anticipated making a trans-Atlantic trip like no other.

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Titanic sinking being remembered near and far 04/13/12 - 6:07pm

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Two Titanic survivors who later became tennis pros are being honored at Rhode Island's International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum. Nearby on Cape Cod, a wreath will be laid for a radio operator who relayed Morse code messages as the ill-fated ship went down. In Denver, a musical piece composed for famed passenger Molly Brown is getting its premiere.

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Titanic survivors' descendants to recall disaster 04/13/12 - 5:57pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As a little boy, Tom Goldsmith followed his grandfather into his north-central Ohio den and begged him to tell him about the Titanic. His grandfather, Frank Goldsmith, was a 9-year-old traveling in third class when he was plucked from bed and placed on one of the last lifeboats lowered into the frigid Atlantic Ocean as the ship sank.

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Except for Titanic: It's everyone for himself on sinking ships 04/12/12 - 3:35pm

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A hundred years after the Titanic sank, two Swedish researchers on Thursday said when it comes to sinking ships, male chivalry is "a myth" and more men generally survive such disasters than women and children.

Economists Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixon of Uppsala University also showed in their 82-page study that captains and their crew are 18.7 percentage points more likely to survive a shipwreck than their passengers.

"Our findings show that behavior in life-and-death situation is best captured by the expression 'every man for himself'," the authors wrote.

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Titanic's sinking: Was it more than human folly? 04/13/12 - 6:18pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — After an entire century that included two high-profile government investigations and countless books and movies, we're still debating what really caused the Titanic to hit an iceberg and sink on that crystal-clear chilly night.

Maybe there's more to blame than human folly and hubris. Maybe we can fault freak atmospheric conditions that caused a mirage or an even rarer astronomical event that sent icebergs into shipping lanes. Those are two of the newer theories being proposed by a Titanic author and a team of astronomers.

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Ships on opposites sides of ocean on Titanic trips 04/11/12 - 5:45pm

NEW YORK (AP) — Two cruise ships on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean have embarked on journeys to visit the spot where the Titanic sank, but one that had departed after a short stop on the Irish coast returned briefly after a passenger became ill.

With the sickened passenger needing to be airlifted for medical care, the European memorial cruise on Tuesday interrupted its trip retracing the path of the Titanic's doomed maiden voyage 100 years ago.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, the cruise ship Journey departed a New York pier on Tuesday night.

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View of Titanic, two miles below the surface of the Atlantic 04/10/12 - 3:40pm

This composite image, released by RMS Titanic Inc., and made from sonar and more than 100,000 photos taken in 2010 from by unmanned, underwater robots, shows a portion of a comprehensive map of the 3-by-5-mile debris field surrounding the bow and stern of the Titanic on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.

The luxury passenger liner sank about 375 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada, after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage from England to New York on April 15, 1912, killing 1,517 people.

AP Photo/RMS Titanic Inc.

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Memorial ship will visit Titanic graves in Canada 04/10/12 - 12:23pm

NEW YORK (AP) — A memorial ship is preparing to ferry passengers from New York to Canada to visit the graves of those who perished on the Titanic.

Titanic Memorial Cruise says the cruise ship Journey will leave New York City's pier Tuesday evening for Halifax, Nova Scotia. That's exactly 100 years after the Titanic left Southampton, England.

Passengers will visit a cemetery where 150 victims of the Titanic are buried. The ship will also feature lectures about life on board the doomed ocean liner and hold a memorial service at sea.

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Wreaths, rose petals headed to Titanic site 04/10/12 - 12:19pm

BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard base in Boston is hosting a ceremony to bless the wreaths and hundreds of thousands of rose petals that will be scattered where the Titanic sank 100 years ago.

The ceremony Tuesday includes Titanic historians and Bishop J. Kevin Boland of the Apostleship of the Sea in the United States. The Coast Guard Cutter Juniper will then head to the Titanic's North Atlantic resting site.

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Prayers and silence mark Titanic centenary 04/15/12 - 3:21pm

Titanic tale has Pequot Lakes connection 04/15/12 - 3:24pm

Titanic sinking being remembered near and far 04/13/12 - 6:07pm

Titanic survivors' descendants to recall disaster 04/13/12 - 5:57pm

Except for Titanic: It's everyone for himself on sinking ships 04/12/12 - 3:35pm

Titanic's sinking: Was it more than human folly? 04/13/12 - 6:18pm

Ships on opposites sides of ocean on Titanic trips 04/11/12 - 5:45pm

View of Titanic, two miles below the surface of the Atlantic 04/10/12 - 3:40pm

Memorial ship will visit Titanic graves in Canada 04/10/12 - 12:23pm

Wreaths, rose petals headed to Titanic site 04/10/12 - 12:19pm

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