Fire and Ice: Titanic Mourning Postcard, 1912

Photo: Courtesy Dr. Edward and Joanne Dauer
February 15, 2012
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Many survivors remembered that the Titanic’s eight musicians played the hymn “Nearer My God to Thee” immediately before the ship sank. The hymn became a popular theme on Titanic memorial postcards. None of the musicians survived.