The 2, 200-passenger liner also was meant to double as a troop transport ship if war broke out.

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This passenger liner sank off Cape Bowling Green in 1911, leading to the loss of 122 lives.

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The passenger liner sank after hitting an iceberg en route from Southampton to New York in April 1912.

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The passenger liner sank after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in April 1912.

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One of those disputes is with the major construction contractor, a Chinese company called Metallurgical Corporation of China, another is with Clive Palmer, the self-made Australian millionaire with a plan to build a replica of Titanic, the unsinkable passenger liner that claimed 1502 lives when it sank in the North Atlantic in 1912.

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Hindenburg, for instance, and even the torpedoing, just three years after the Titanic sank, of the Lusitania, another great liner whose passenger list boasted the rich and the famous, were calamities that shocked the world but have failed to generate an obsessive preoccupation.

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