Now known as Cobh, which Irish town was the Titanic's last port of call?
Cobh Heritage Centre Cobh Heritage Centre The Cobh Heritage Centre is a museum located in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. It is attached to Cobh railway station. The "Queenstown Experience", located at the centre, has mostly permanent exhibitions of Irish history. It provides information on life in Ireland through the 18th and 19th centuries, the mass emigration, the Great Famine, and on how criminals were transported to Australia for petty crimes. It also has an exhibition on the history of the RMS "Titanic", whose last port of call before it sank was Cobh (then Queenstown). The centre is a tourist destination, including with visitors
Memorials and monuments to the RMS Titanic victims from the city who had died in the disaster. Designed by Sir Thomas Brock RA, it was carved from Carrara marble and depicts a personification of Death holding a laurel wreath over the head of a drowned sailor. The Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland) had little interest in commemorating the disaster and it was not until 1998 that a "Titanic" memorial was erected in Cobh. It consists of a bas-relief depicting third-class passenger Margaret Rice and her five sons, all of whom died in the sinking, and bears the dedication: "Commemorating RMS "Titanic" and her last port