With Vigilance Renewed. Because, 34 years ago today (14 - 15 April, 1912), 1, 517 men, women and children lost their lives when the beautiful, shining new Titanic, on her maiden voyage, crashed her "unsinkable" bow into just such a floating giant, Coast Guardsmen aboard a cutter attached to the International Ice Patrol pay slight attention to a huge iceberg floating by. All shipping is already warned by the patrol of its location and direction of drift.

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