The newspaper that showed the tragedy of the "Titanic" for the first time is revealed!

A newspaper detailing the harrowing wait families faced on board the Titanic has been discovered at the back of a wardrobe in England after more than a century. The aftermath of the tragedy is shockingly captured in images featured in the 112-year-old newspaper. On April 20, 1912, the front page of the British newspaper The Daily Mirror shows two women in Southampton, the English port from which the Titanic set sail, waiting for a list of survivors to be sent. The headline of the newspaper reads: "One of the thousands of tragedies that made the sinking of the Titanic the worst in world history."

When the Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912, she was the largest passenger ship in service. Just four days later, the Titanic's maiden voyage turned into an international tragedy when the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11.40pm on 14 April. The ship, which sank in less than three hours, did not have enough lifeboats for the approximately 2,220 people on board. The paper was discovered in a cupboard during a house clearance by Hansons auction house, where it is believed to have been kept for more than a century.

The front page reads: “Of the 903 crew members of the Titanic, only 210 survived. This means tragedy after tragedy for Southampton, where most of the men lived, because in this terrible disaster mothers lost their sons, women their husbands and young women their lovers."

Inside, the newspaper opens to a double page with a photo gallery of those on board. Charles Hanson, owner of auction house Hansons Auctioneers, said in a statement that it was discovered during a house clearance at a property in Lichfield, Staffordshire. "The newspaper was found thanks to the grandmother of our elderly client," said Hanson. It held newspapers marking important events such as the coronation of King George V in 1911, as well as the sinking of the Titanic.

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