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Monday, 30 September 2013
A mass funeral then a watery grave: Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea
This haunting black and white photograph taken on board the Mackay
Bennett body recovery ship following the Titanic disaster shows a mass
funeral for dozens of the dead being buried in the Atlantic Ocean. The
image - which has been discovered a century on from the disaster in 1912
- shows body bags stacked on the windswept deck while two crewman tip
up a stretcher to drop a victim over the side.
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