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On the 15th April 1912 the British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic ocean just five days into its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were several reports by those who survived that the haunting hymn presented in this month’s classical arrangement could be heard echoing around during the ship’s final moments and would have been played by the eight-piece house band led by violinist Wallace Henry Hartley, all of whom perished on that fateful night. The same song was sung by the crew of the SS Valencia when it sank off
