Waking the Titanic (Titanic Documentary) | Timeline

dear cousin I'm coming to America and the nicest ship in the world isn't that just splendid I'm coming with some of the nicest people in the world to they live in Chicago and I should be able to make the entire trip with them they've told me all about Chicago and I know I should like it much better than I do Ireland's yours truly Annie Kelly in April 1912 14 people from the parish of a der Poel in the West of Ireland set sail to emigrate to America they were emigrating from poverty to find a better life for themselves they came from the one parish and they all left under one day unfortunately for them they had the bad luck to step on board the ill-fated steam liner the ship of Dreams RMS Titanic the article 14 would have been among the poorest two aborted Titanic 11 of the 14 died on Titanic only three survived that from any one community had to abend the highest number I can't think any they would have rivaled that from any other country grandma had said she recalls at first that people were on deck picking up chunks of ice that had scraped off from the iceberg putting it in their drinks because it seems there were many parties and celebrations going on at that hour of the night many of the survivors said at night they would have nightmares and what they would hear is the screaming of the people in the water and the tiny village they left behind was so traumatized that they didn't speak about the relatives they lost on Titanic for almost a hundred years until Oh No [Music] a dragoon is a small-town land in North County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland it's a remote but scenic area situated between the shores of Loch Khan and the foothills of Nathan at the heart of a dragoon is the tiny village of La her dawn in 1912 the population of la orden was only 96 people living in 22 hoses the original story was one of the most tragic of the people's stories on Titanic and it was the numbers the numbers of people who were involved there were 14 young Irish people from a Virgo parish and County male of the 14 Alba 3 did not survive the disaster and this is a very very high percentage of loss the other Gulu 14 travels together in two main groups Catherine McGowan was related to Annie McGowan Catherine lived in America but had returned to a dragoon to bring her niece Annie back with her while she was at home her tales of success in America encouraged the fourteen to travel together with her as a group she traveled round recruiting more people to go she was obviously going to set them all up in certain jobs in Chicago if they came with her to Chicago and being as successful she was she was always very enthusiastic about this adventure an ek Kelli her friend Delia Martin Norah Fleming and Bridget Donna who already had plans to emigrate to America but the prospect of traveling together with Kathryn McGowan meant safety in numbers Catrin Burke was a close friend of Katherine McGowan's Katherine and her husband John were only married a year and had been childhood sweethearts they realized that their only hope of living the life they dreamed of together was to emigrate dear Ellie I suppose you've already heard the fish I've taken well I'd be sailing for America on the 11th of April with Kate McGann he'll be thinking I'm in terrible distress but no quite happy going when I sent you the Shamrock had no notion ago no more than the man in the moon but made up my mind all in a minute I'm very short of time just now is I'm busy as ever I can be Kate McGowan is here I'm going to a funeral I must close would loved you from Katherine Burke PS the name of the steamer I'm going on is called Titanic upon hearing of their plans John's sister Mary Burke also decided to travel with them Mary Mangan was also a friend of Catherine McGowan she too lived in America and had returned to a dragoon to announce to her parents the news of her engagement to be married [Music] hat kanavan was 21 years of age a rugged West of Ireland glad he too was leaving Ireland in search of a better life he traveled with his friend James Flynn at his cousin Mary kanavan who was also James's stepsister mary connivance friend Delia McDermott traveled with them they were the only group to go together all together from a parish from an area near country Ireland in 1912 was a very tough place to live it was a poverty-stricken country where people lived under a cold West's climbers large families of ten or twelve people were crammed into tiny three roomed hoses everyone was poor and every member of the family worked around the clock just to survive it was literally a hand-to-mouth existence there were different times there was no income bound here it was a poor impoverished area and the population were the same poor and impoverished there was a hard tedious mundane task to survive here for everyone here because life was so tough communities were very close-knit and they depended on each other completely to survive everybody knew each other well whole communities worked together to save the hay or bring in the turf it was this closeness that brought relief to the hard lives they lived they had no money they just didn't have one had barter and there were self-sufficient appointed you having a few cows and growing some leash and some vegetables not enough laughter that's how critical things were they live in humble houses they were really grim cold damp harshness they were cold because they weren't very well-off and they weren't very well fed and nutrition was very poor they died in their forties fifties sixties of old age noses are they died of consumption TV which was rampant amongst communities that same cold damp houses tour fires heavy smoke was a huge environment for tuberculosis and they had to you don't know English one small hitch such as a wet summer a bad harvest or an illness could literally ruin a family [Applause] because of this immigration was rife oh yeah like immigration was ramped - was that him was from every town and they were leavin there was no work for them here or no prospects to work for them here that time between 1850 and 1912 over 4 million people had emigrated Ireland a huge figure considering the population was only 8 million nearly every family in Ireland had a relative abroad [Music] the education system was basic and outside of cities most people only received a primary education and many never finished primary school emigrants left as young as 14 school records across Ireland show the scratched out names of those marked gone to the USA in fact it became a fashion a rite of passage families would proudly await and display photographs and letters from America England Australia Katie's boarding house Michigan Avenue Chicago at this time nearly every family in Ireland had a relative abroad new laws meant that only one child in a family could inherit the family land most families had between six and 12 children this meant that the rest of the children once they came of age had to find work elsewhere there was no work in Ireland even in the cities especially for poor uneducated country men and women marriage or emigration was the only option newspapers carry dozens of ads every day prompting people to travel on the fastest the largest the most luxurious of liners the shipping lines competed aggressively for business as steerage was where the companies made their greatest prophets ticket agents roamed the countryside knocking on doors with brochures persuading people of the better life they could have abroad and those who could afford to go went in their droves the girls left more than the fellows left because one plane four girls aren't here at all you all sent your daughter to marry if you're caught and if you code you try to go to America not England because it's roughening in the time but if you got to America you are well made and if you got her - Myka that was the best thing you could ever do it as a father the price of a ticket in third-class on Titanic was just over seven pounds sterling this is the equivalent of about 700 pound sterling in today's money but in 1912 it would take at least three years for the average Irish family to save this to them it was a fortune the hundred and fourteen couldn't have a forger and their parents couldn't afford either so dosed remittances money coming back from America which brought the next generation over and the remittances there was a huge phenomena at the time the money was coming back from dollars abroad and that's how this area survive and that's what got to 14 over the 14th impaired off from the village here and got on as bad over house Titanic while the a dragoon 14 were planning their new lives in America only a hundred miles away in Belfast construction had started on what was to be the greatest ship in the world this was the ship that should have taken the a dragula 14 to their dreams but instead took them to their graves construction began on the Titanic in 1907 it took three years to build at the time it revolutionized sea travel as it was the largest fastest and most luxurious ocean-going steam liner ever built it was the first ship that was guaranteed unsinkable titanic cost one and a half million pound sterling to build in today's money that's four hundred million pounds Harland and Wolff employed 15,000 people during this period with such a massive weekly payroll the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast became the biggest private employer in Ireland at that time dear Annie I hope this letter finds you well I am writing to let you know that I will be returning to Ireland for a holiday in a few weeks and I'm so looking forward to meeting you I hope that you will be returning to America with me it's a lovely place to live there are lots of opportunities in America jobs are plentiful yours faithfully your loving aunt Catherine McGowan forty was a considerable number in contest when people left in ones and twos they left on together that's 14 probably our quest where one person amongst them all Catherine McGowan catherine was the perfect example of a successful immigrant she had made it big in Chicago having set up a boarding house providing room and board to the newly arrived Chicago immigrants she was a rich entrepreneur and have returned to Ireland to escort her niece Annie to Chicago dear aunty I'm really looking forward to going to America I'm very glad that you were coming to collect me I'm looking forward to the opportunities ahead of me and hopefully with your help I'll be able to find some work your is Annie Magan when she returned to add her guru she returned a very different lady from the girl who had emigrated 22 years previously catherine was now a wealthy woman and returned dressed in finery and loaded with money and tales of the opportunities and riches that could be found in Chicago Catherine knew all of the 14 and actively persuaded them to travel together with her to America she told them stories of Broad streets jobs aplenty and lives beyond their wildest dreams one by one she persuaded them all to travel together at the same time on the same ship I'm really a trannie McGown when Annie finished school she was in contact with her and Catherine Macau the four-team would be very much a sizes because they all had the same expectations as Kath and Miguel told them about he probably thought that he could attain the same status as his cattle magong by going to America [Music] the week of the 8th of April in 1912 there were 14 wakes held in houses across the town land of a dragula there were 14 deaths to be honored these weren't real deaths are real wakes but American wakes Ireland has always had lots of customs and traditions one of these was the tradition of the American wake when emigrants were leaving to go to America their family and friends would hold a symbolic way emigrating was like a death a person who emigrated in these times would most likely never see their family or friends again most emigrants we're the lucky few never returned to Ireland once they left [Music] [Music] these were very emotional affairs and bittersweet very sad for the family of a person leaving and for the person themselves but also the prospects of a better life were exciting when Titanic was launched in 1911 the White Star Line made a point of not christening the ship or blessing it with the customary may God bless her and all who sail in her this caused huge consternation at that time around Europe it was considered unlucky to travel on any maiden voyage and this act strengthened this feeling many very superstitious the Irish included looked upon this to a certain extent as flaunting God saying God couldn't sink this ship wherever in the world there is poverty there is religion and Ireland in 1912 was no different because life here was so precarious the Irish were very religious they were also very superstitious there was a lot of for warnings about sailing on Titanic Adelia McDermott for one had had a experience about this herself only a few days before Delia left on Titanic a stranger stopped her on the road one evening when she was returning home with friends he told her that she'd be making a journey in a few days and that there'd be a terrible tragedy that hundreds would die but she would be saved other family members of our world people also had psychic forewarning so to speak the night before she left Delia Mahan's brother read her tea leaves and allegedly told her there would be a terrible disaster on her journey and that she would die but these weren't strong enough I guess to keep the people from from sailing [Music] the day before the other ghoul 14 left Ireland they spent their final hours preparing packing and with family marry Mangan spent this time with her parents before going back to America to get married and start a new life [Music] Catherine and John Burke were also preparing for a new life they were expecting their first baby which would be born in America they were full of plans and hope for their new life and family Diann McDermott's mother told her that to be a lady in America she had to wear a hat that all ladies wore hats there she told her that to be a real American lady one must arrive in New York wearing a hat and gloves the day before dia left her mother took her to Hickson's shop in cross Melina to buy her first hat and gloves [Music] Brigit Oh Donna who worked in the local shop the day before she left the three-year-old daughter of the shop owner asked Bridget's to send her back a ring from New York to get the sizing rice Bridget measured the little girl's finger with a piece of string [Music] James Flynn spent the afternoon with his sister who was upset at his leaving she had been deaf since birth and James was the only one of her family or friends that could sign with her he promised he'd sent her a tickets for her passage once he got to New York when Titanic was launched and in the water she had the most expensive fitting out of any ship the facilities were state-of-the-art a heated swimming pool a gym completed with multi gym machines rowing machines and spinning machines the famous grand staircase was hand-built from oak and mahogany by Belfast's master craftsman because steerage class was where the shipping companies made their greatest profits the white skyline decided that Titanic would revolutionize this class steerage on Titanic was real luxury it wasn't called steerage it was called third-class and third-class on Titanic was like second-class on most other ships and even as good as first-class on some ships the finished ship was resplendent sleek and elegant deemed the largest and fastest ship in the world all the Titanic needed now a crew and passengers [Music] on the morning of April 10th 1912 Theodore Gullu 14 made their way to castle bear train station goodbyes were emotional they faced a 14 hour journey to County Cork to meet Titanic which was no preparing to leave Southampton England [Applause] [Music] when the 14 reached Castlebar train-station they were excited but nervous this was final and they were now leaving home [Music] [Applause] [Music] conditions were fantastic on board third-class on Titanic the accommodations on Titanic were unbelievable in third-class for these people for the a dragoon 14 the experience of being on Titanic was amazing it was the first time they saw electric lights the first time they had the luxury of a bed to themselves it was the first time they had proper washing and toilet facilities it was the first time they had experienced silver cutlery linen napkins and tablecloths the people really appreciated this I mean they were using it they were using me the facilities were available to them and certainly enjoying the food that in many cases was probably the best meals they never had having different boards Titanic emotion was extraordinary spirits was here was the greatest liner ever bent at the time her class and phonetic was extraordinary high standards by comparison to other ships sailing over and back our 14th magical would never have seen luxuries like these even though they were having steerage to us this ship was the most luxurious ship in existence Ammar just the safest and it was unsinkable the three days the a dragula 14 spent aboard the Titanic were among the best days of their lives and life aboard Titanic reinforced their expectations of what their new lives in America would be like for them [Music] [Applause] and he can't Kelly was my int she was in bed when somebody woke her up and said the Titanic is sinking she thought they were teasing her but then somebody else came and they said oh yeah you've got to get out when Titanic hit the iceberg the outer guru 14 were in different parts of the ship some were in their cabins others were at a party the impact wasn't felt by everyone in fact the shudder was so sliced that many people on the ship didn't even feel it so everyone was calm and orderly nobody thought the ship was in any danger [Music] grandma had said she recalls at first that people were on deck picking up chunks of ice that had scraped off from the iceberg putting it in their drinks because it seems there were many parties and celebrations going on at that hour of the night and most likely she probably considered there was no danger up until the disaster itself these people were having a great time they were having fun they were doing things together they were saying they were dancing when the Titanic hit the iceberg this was 20 minutes to 12 Nora Fleming was celebrating her birthday and she was singing on this fateful day the stewards had told the outer ghoul 14 that there was nothing to worry about that they were to stay in steerage and above all stay calm they were told that they would receive further instruction as soon as possible Nora Fleming kept singing to help the situation and to help keep people at ease as time went on however the a dragoon 14 became more and more anxious stress began to increase and pressure began to show however they did their best to stay calm like they were told to by the stewards and I think that lasted so long until they saw the slam of the ship the way it was sinking and that's where the panic started and despite the panic the audible group seemed very organized in this the men came to find the women and realized we have to get out of here we have to find a way to the light book the people see us working to give an access to our products to get the boats you could not get access to second-class or first-class from steerage the Hodja cultural gates Empire and they were kept that way and they're armed and my crew were told to keep him down below or to be an order they knew from the beginning there weren't enough lifeboats for at least a thousand people that were on board that ship but it was even worse because the lifeboats are set up in such a way that the first eight life was were on first-class deck space now no other class was allowed in that area so those first eight boats went off with almost entirely first-class people the added load group was very organized the men got the women together and they started working up the decks and the only way to do that till you got to the uppermost deck was by literally putting women in your hands and boosting them up onto the next deck so literally you had three or four decks you had to ascend to get to the boat deck that was only the last one that there was a stairway that could be used to get on to the boat deck itself it has to be called heroic I think when the a Dragoon group got to the lifeboat decks there were only three lifeboats left in the panic the group lost each other in the crowd Catherine and Mary Burke each got a place on a lifeboat but when John Burke was refused access both Kathryn and Mary got out of the lifeboats to stay with him Anna Kate Kelly was put on a lifeboat in their place I should not have been saved except for mrs. Barrus refusal to leave her husband I locked up and saw my cousin watching holding in his hands his rosary beads which he raised to bless me he was among the money that went down with the ship on the other side of Titanic Delia McDermott had got on a lifeboat then the most extraordinary thing happened she realized she had left her house behind her she got off the lifeboat and returned back into steerage of Titanic to get her hat when she got back on deck all the lifeboats had gone she then lowered herself down a rope and jumped 15 feet into the last lifeboat that was being lowered away and she survived that was something that was so important to her it was the one thing that she had that she valued that she wanted to bring to America I'm sure she thought I won't be able to afford another one like that when I get to America and I cannot chance it so I'll take the I'll take the chance and I'll go back and see if I can get it and most likely not realizing the dangerous situation that she was in on another part of the ship Annie McGowan also managed to get a place on a lifeboat I'm related to Annie McGowan she remembered being grabbed get in the lifeboat get in the lifeboat and she was scared because she didn't know what was happening with her aunt and she remembered hearing husbands and wives not wanting to be separated screaming she remembered when she was in the lifeboat that a man tried to get in the boat and said if you if you don't let me in I'm gonna tip over the whole boat so they let him in the lifeboat but her biggest concern was for her aunt and what had happened to her aunt and I believe in the lifeboat they tried to reassure her and tell her that her aunt was on the next lifeboat but she never ended up hearing what happened [Music] [Applause] [Music] all of a sudden she said it just busted in half and she thought a boiler had broke and that's what caused it and that's when she said you really heard a lot of screaming [Applause] the lights completely go out so it's pitch black and then you hear the screams that's when the screaming started it was terrible the salt water and the wind made my eyes bleed the screams of the passenger is left in the Dexter stood over the water [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it was horrible horrible nice horrendous nights unforgettable noise and I'll forget her cries and appeals and people are darling those who actually entered the water when you land in the water the temperature was 0 to 1 the way most women swim for starch if there were life jackets you can swim the life jacket on you you flows like a cork the more you struggle the worse it becomes here because you use a point of energy and you get cold rapidly you last about 14 15 minutes and the years different unconsciousness you know david about 20 minutes very few people that ended up in the water were survivors we're talking about maybe two dozen at most and the reason being the water was so cold people did not die by drowning as many people think most of them had lifebelts on they were above the level of the water and the water was was pretty clear that night pretty calm the water was so cold they died of hypothermia and died probably within ten or fifteen minutes at most of the time they went in the water they were just a few hours off those normal to the drowned in the darkness which is worst again so it was a horrible end for all the 1500 round [Music] of the a dragoon 14 only three survived Titanic Annie Kate Kelly Anna McGowan and Delia McDermott on arrival in New York they were taken to st. Vincent's Hospital where they remained for two weeks all three were badly traumatized and very weak Louis them got very good treatment from the hospital staff they were they were kind of special people because of what had happened to them but that wasn't necessarily true of the representatives of the White Star Line Anna Kate Kelly was my great aunt the doctor was quoted as saying he didn't think she would survive every time she closed her eyes she would relive the tragedy all over again she couldn't eat couldn't drink she was just distraught which was real contrast from the way I knew her I knew her as a very you know forthright kind of person that very witty and with tremendous strength of character my mother was very very stressed out and not according to her Julianne say could even talk about the incident at all that she was very very sick [Music] Delia McDermott was my grandmother she came on the Titanic with two girlfriends and both of them perished she was so traumatized by the sinking of the Titanic that anything that would remind her of it would cause her a lot of anguish as these people were recovering in st. Vincent's Hospital the White Star Line representatives very definitely took advantage of these people when they were ill when they were not thinking properly when they were in hysterics and would go into the rooms and have them sign papers and the papers basically said they would settle with the White Star Line for $25 no matter how much they had lost on board no matter what kind of injuries they had in other words they were signing off everything to the White Star Line that they could have sued for later for $25 we needed to say to the same the same as to get the ticket to Chicago [Music] any cake Kelly was a very good example of this this happened to her she did sign the papers and she did get $25 and that was the extent of what she got for her belongings and the ordeal she'd been through [Music] marry Megan did not survive that Titanic her body was discovered on April 22nd it was a 61st body to be retrieved from the water and it was easily identified because of the jewelry that had been found at her effects in particular there was a gold watch with there her picture inside and her name was engraved inside in Megan and also engraved on the outside em Megan she had her engagement ring that was listed in her FX but later on there was a notation added that there no ring in effects so the ring went missing at some stage it was never returned to the family her body was buried at sea her clothing was buried with her and they returned to her personal effects to the family the reason that they buried some at sea and not others was because some of the bodies were too decomposed and you know would be difficult for embalming the still bodies being found floating on - Leslie just June 1912 the same year the bodies of the remaining 10 of the a dragoon group do you man marry Canavan Pat kanavan Catherine McGowan John Burke Catherine Burke Mary Burke James Flynn Nora Fleming and Bridget ho Donohue were never found [Music] didn't know when I adopted for a whole week or Apple they got wind after five days but the information was inaccurate for start and over the exaggerator's and then they couldn't give the proper story normal knew who drowned who survived and then eventually the authorities had the names and numbers in New York so you would have taken maybe eight nine days for the news to come back to a household that their son their daughter had not met America when the news came the payments and sufferable and they could do nothing about it they had no body they had no grave to go to and it's very well described what happened it just been put of the people on the beds there were white snow white quilts and you can imagine all the crying and the neighbors coming or the pain was always there they went with that pain they died with that pain the important thing was to make a new life and get on with it which they all did they all made a new life [Music] [Applause] grabbed my my dad had to be my sister's wedding I'm sure [Music] here and a NEMA gal and lagoon baptized on July 9th 1897 Dave birth July 5th however remember the stories that she used to tell born at the stroke of midnight so we got to celebrate her birthday on July 4th she's the only person horn between the fourth and the fifth what that means I never good Annie McGowan was my grandmother there is close to a hundred of us that would not be here if she had not survived the Titanic Annie McGowan was my mother and when she came here all she had was a nightgown slippers and a Colt she was sick for quite a while and they were afraid that she would lose her mind if it was constantly brought up and then of course her aunt had died on the ship but once she started going on with her life and she got over the initial shock of the experience I mean I don't think you ever really get over it but she she led a normal life and then she went to secretarial school and she got a job and shortly after that she met my dad and they got married she had three girls my sister friend my sister Jackie for myself my mother was a very strong lady a very feisty determined person she when she made up her mind to do something she did it nothing was gonna get in her way she was gonna get it done she didn't like something she told you I discovered her newspapers in the drawer when I was a teenager she had their original those papers about the sinking of the Titanic in the jar and she never ever talked about it prior to that and I asked my mother about it she said just put that away and never mind don't talk about it and the next I heard was just before I got married and we discovered that this was true she was really on the Titanic and but she still would not talk about it growing up she was terrified the water my mother never went in the water ever never wanted us to go in the water either delia MacDermid was my grandmother Delia has 34 descendants and 30 of them are alive right now until you married my grandfather John Lynch and he was the Galway man she met him and married him in America and they lived in Jersey City and he worked on the Central Jersey Railroad his whole life they had three children Delia was just a very quiet person very reserved she never initiated conversations I can picture her sitting in her rocking chair in the kitchen and I also picture her with a rosary beads she was you know she was always praying she ran a boarding house where she lived on Union Street she would be up for early she'd attend daily Mass and she would tend to her home she was a real homebody my grandmother never spoke about the Titanic and I learned from an early age on not to ask her about the Titanic perhaps it's a feeling of anybody who survives the disaster where others have lost their lives and you wonder why did God spare me especially for her after she got herself up out of a lifeboat and was able to get back into a second lifeboat which was amazing because I'm sure by the time she got into the second lifeboat there were people struggling to find lifeboats and to get into one and she was fortunate enough to get into one forty minutes before it sank she never spoke about going home again any Kelly lived with her sisters is she I think she was there for a time before she was able to pull herself together and you know get out too and get a job you know I probably saw her very regularly once I came here Annie Kate Kelly lived and worked in Chicago as a milliner for nine years then as a direct result of her experiences on Titanic she completely changed the direction of her life any Kate Kelly always questioned why she was saved when so many others wealthier better equipped in life didn't survive and she always felt a calling and ended up giving her life to the Lord and became a nun and was a teaching nun for most of her life mr. Patrick Joseph she took my father's name he was Patrick Joseph also she said well I decided if I wanted to make a life for myself I had to put the Titanic behind me and move on she taught in many of the grammar schools and in the Chicago area she was very straight-laced lady very fond family and very into her students a lot of young people actually kept in touch with her those whom she had taught until she died [Music] the village of lard on in Ireland still feels the pain of the Titanic tragedy a hundred years are the story of the a dragoon 14 nearly died completely with the last generation INLA heard on the pain of their loss was so intense that the villagers stopped talking about it completely the revisionists around the area after us and then beaver stop talking deliberately stop trying abolish first he was it broke the hearse 4-digit struggling greatly having lost somebody secondly there was a possibility was money owed that somebody may have come back over old money and he got fischer and then they stopped talking rubbish and that's why the story suddenly began to disappear and that's why it wasn't known about a generation later because of this a lot of documented evidence of the 14 was lost over the years however in the last decade the people of adder google have begun to talk about this history again in recent years they have begun to embrace this legacy they are now actively recovering this history and there's evidence of this all around the village of Lardon in the last decade the people of Lardon have been busy traveling and communicating with people around the world collecting rebuilding and archiving the documents and records of the a dragoon 14 this is Mary mangas watch which was recovered from the Titanic it was found around Mary's neck on a chain at the back here then I've got the inscription of Mary Mangan and she was probably just looking at it for the times for the Train thinking how long have I got left before we get the Titanic the watch stopped at twenty past two it stopped when the Titanic sank into the water we know that Mary Mannion would have gone into the water at that time it's just amazing to have it [Music] relatives and residents with an interest in the Titanic are constantly working in different ways to commemorate the a dragula 14 include the ship sinking you can see the the stern of the ship but the most intriguing of all lardons commemorations takes place here every April on the 14th of April at 2:00 a.m. a candlelit procession slowly winds its way through the village to the local church here a ceremony is held this is a ritual created by the people of Lardon to unite the community and help them to tell their story together the story of how 14 of their ancestors left this village 100 years ago to seek hope and a better life in America but never got there at exactly 2:20 a.m. the time titanic finally disappeared into the sea the relatives of the a dragoon 14 ring the church bell for each of the 14 the people of a dragoon are telling their story once again [Music] you

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