This was the last port of call for the Titanic before it set sail to the open ocean. We had an excellent local guide who is a historian and expert in the sinking of the Titanic. He said the great loss of life was not that there weren’t enough lifeboats but that so many of them were not filled when they pulled away from the ship. It also was not women and children first but more first and second class. Very few survivors were from steerage.
There is a statue of Anne Moore who is the first name listed on the immigration rolls on Ellis Island. She had her two brothers with her. A photo 30 years later showed the US was good to Anne. Another monument is dedicated to the fisherman who rescued passengers from the Lusitania that was torpedoed 10 miles off the coast. It shows their sheer exhaustion!
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