"Songs/Hymns: Titanic, Bamworth Company Cards" by WWI Postcards from the Richard J. Whittington Collection
 

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Creation Date

1915

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When the RMS Titantic sank in April 1912, the Bamworth Publishing Company of Leeds produced a commemorative card. It was from this rendering that the myth developed and spread suggesting that Titanic’s band had been playing the hymn ‘Nearer My God to Thee’ as the ship sank.

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Titanic, Bamworth Company

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