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Survivors of the Titanic's sinking

lifeboats carrying Titanic survivors

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Lionel Lukin

British engineer

View of the ROV Hercules investigating the stern of Titanic during a 2004 expedition deployed from the NOAA ship, the Ronald H. Brown. (disasters, ships)

The Titanic