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What happened to the bodies on the Titanic?

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In 1986, Congress passed a protective law known as theR.M.S. Titanic Memorial Act, but officials at the oceanagency and elsewhere agree that it has no teeth. After theTitanic sank, searchers recovered 340 bodies. Thus,of the roughly 1,500 people killed in the disaster, about 1,160bodies remain lost.

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Accordingly, what happened to the bodies that sank with the Titanic?

Five days after the passenger ship the Titanicsank, the crew of the rescue ship Mackay-Bennett pulled thebody of a fair-haired, roughly 2-year-old boy out of theAtlantic Ocean on April 21, 1912. When it sank, theTitanic took the lives of 1,497 of the 2,209 people aboardwith it.

Subsequently, question is, where are the remains of the Titanic? Wreck of the RMS Titanic. This is the latestaccepted revision, reviewed on 20 September 2019. The wreck of theRMS Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet (3.8 km;2.37 mi), about 370 miles (600 km) south-southeast off the coast ofNewfoundland. It lies in two main pieces about a third of a mile(600 m) apart.

Accordingly, when was the last body found from Titanic?

The last body to be buried in Halifax was that ofFirst Class Saloon Stewart, James McCrady which was interred onJune 12, 1912. He was from Belfast and was 27 years old. Hisbody was recovered by the Bowring Brothers steamshipthe SS Algerine.

Did they ever find the captain of the Titanic?

Edward Smith (sea captain) Edward John Smith (27January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was a British naval officer.He served as master of numerous White Star Line vessels.He was the captain of the RMS Titanic, andperished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage.

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