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On the Day a Liner Sailed: a Photo Essay

Crowds waiting to embark on the tenders at White Star Wharf, Queenstown.
A view of Queenstown from the tender before the spire was added to St Coleman's Cathedral and by the photographer's uncle, Bishop Robert Browne of Cloynes.
passengers in disembarking at White Star Wharf, Queenstown.
American ladies disembarking from the tender <I>America</I>
American ladies disembarking from the tender <I>America</I>.
Queenstown vendor's had franchises to sell Irish lace and other souvenirs aboard the transatlantic liners.
Authorised trader, Mrs Galvin, on the Queenstown wharf awaiting the arrival of passengers.
Porters waiting for employment to transfer mails.
Illegal trade in progress alongside a liner.
'A drop in the mail!' Hopefully, no breakables are in the bags being dropped into the hold.
Passengers on board a White Star Liner watch the mail being transferred.
Crewmen loading mail and adjusting a liner's lantern.
Mailbags and trunks ready for loading after passengers have boarded.
Loading the mails which had come by rail on the 'American Mail Special' from Cork.
Crew members raising the gangway.
crew members raising the gangway.
A bugler playing on the pier.
Mail being loaded onto the ship.
Passengers passing the time of day as the ship is made ready.
Crew members off-loading from the tender <I>America</I>.
a newspaper boy sells the latest edition of <I>The Cork Examiner.</I>
Mother and child received special attention.
Second-class passengers embarking from the tender <I>Ireland</I>.
First-class passengers mount the gangway.
Steerage passengers getting settled on deck.
Porters 'spotting form' on the steerage deck. No the 'English Style' rafts beside the lifeboat at the top of the picture.
US doctor inspecting eyes. No passenger suffering from trachoma or other contagious diseases was permitted to travel.
A tender pilot at his station.
The tender pilot with his faithful servant.
The tenders <I>Ireland</I> and <I>America</I> side-by-side with passengers boarding the Titanic.
A view of the tenders <I>Ireland</I> and <I>America</I> with Cobh in the background.
A view of the tender <I>Ireland</I> taken from the tender <I>America</I>.
The tender <I>Ireland</i> departing from a liner with a small number of passengers.
The tenders <I>Ireland</i> and <I>America</I> off Deepwater Quay.
A few final trunks being added to the already crowded tenders.
The signal lamps being inspected by a Port of Cork official. Normally this task was carried out by one of the liner's officers.
One of the formalities of the port involved lifeboat drill and the inspection of lifejackets.
Note that despite the letter being addressed to Father Browne, Frank was not a priest at the time. He was due for ordination in 1915. The Irish mail service was a lot faster in 1912 than it is today. The letter with its precious enclosure would have been delivered to the Bishop's Palace on the afternoon of the third of April and would certainly have made one of the three three deliveries next day.