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For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the "Titanic" that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down on April 15, 1912, and how its wreckage was discovered 75 later. Illustrations.

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For more than one hundred years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later.

At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, the largest passenger steamship of this time, met its catastrophic end after crashing into an iceberg. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew onboard, only 705 survived. More than one hundred years later, today's readers will be intrigued by the mystery that surrounds this ship that was originally labeled "unsinkable."

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