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Fire and Ice: Titanic Mourning Postcard, 1912

February 15, 2012

Photo: Courtesy Dr. Edward and Joanne Dauer

Many survivors remembered that the Titanic’s eight musicians played the hymn “Nearer My God to Thee” immediately before the ship sank. The hymn became a popular theme on Titanic memorial postcards. None of the musicians survived. 

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