News of the Disaster - Daily Mirror reports

Titanic report, The Daily Mirror, 16 April 1912.

"Everyone Safe"....."Helpless Giant Being Towed To Port by Allan Liner."

As this headline story in the Daily Mirror shows, the initial reporting of Titanic's collision with an iceberg was inaccurate and wildly optimistic.   However, such reports were soon overshadowed when the true scale of the disaster became known and it emerged that almost 1500 people had died.