Titanic Letters

«Previously, the overseas mail had travelled on great ships such as the British Titanic, which sank in 1912, losing some seventeen million pieces of mail. (About a dozen letters postmarked aboard had survived, because the Titanic didn't head right to New York City from Southampton but stopped first at Cherbourg, in France, then at Queenstown, in Ireland; letters written early in the voyage were sent from those ports.)»

Winifred Gallagher, How the Post Office Created America