Website publishes 200K Titanic data

The documents about the passengers and crew of the ill-fated Titanic ship have been put online to mark the centenary of the disaster. The RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage between Southampton in England and New York City after it struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912. It was owned by White Star Line Shipping Company and was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
The ship sank after colliding with an iceberg in North Atlantic Ocean, 375 miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, leading to the deaths of 1,517 people. Only 711 people of the total 2,228 people on board the ship survived the tragedy. The documents, which number about 200,000, include the outward passenger list, crew records, lists of deaths at sea, passenger list of the Titanic survivors who were rescued by Carpathia, fatality reports and details of the graves of the Titanic victims from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The documents are available free on the website www.ancestry.co.uk [1].
Briton Millvina Dean was the last living survivor of the disaster. Dean, who was only nine weeks old at the time of the sinking, died on May 31, 2009, the 98th anniversary of the launching of Titanic’s hull.
British cities of Southampton, Belfast and Liverpool, French city of Cherbourg, Cobh in Ireland and New York in the United States are commemorating the centenary of the Titanic disaster with auctions, plays, musicals, exhibitions and new buildings.
A cruise ship from Southampton has been launched to retrace RMS Titanic’s journey across the Atlantic ocean. It includes relatives of passengers and crew on the ill-fated ship on board and will hold a special memorial ceremony at the time the Titanic went down at the spot where it sank.
The largest collection of artefacts salvaged from the Titanic has been auctioned in New York. More than 5,500 items from the ocean liner, which have an estimated value of £122 million, were sold as a single lot in an auction held on April 1 by Guernsey’s, a New York City auction house. The results of the auction will not be announced until April 15, the date of the Titanic’s sinking.