COBH-- located 213 miles away and from 1850 to 1920, known as Queenstown, Cobh is a seaport on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland, and the last port-of-call of the Titanic before its fateful Atlantic crossing. Some 120 passengers boarded here where you will find a granite marker for Margaret Rice and her five sons who all perished.
The former White Star office has been converted into the "Titanic Experience," an interactive virtual voyage. You check in, get the name of an actual passenger, cross the gangplank and meet actors portraying the captain and crew. Then you visit an elegant first-class cabin and exit to a lifeboat.
At the end of that, you find out if you survived or not. The article's writer was Katherine Buckley, a 22-year-old Irish girl in steerage. Her body was recovered by the Mackay-Bennett rescue boat and identified by her blue serge suit and ticket in pocket. Her body was sent to her half-sister's in Boston where she was buried.
Quite An Experience. --DaCoot
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