Historical place archive

Cherbourg in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Cherbourg in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1912–1912

Historical events in Cherbourg

1912

10 April 1912
Titanic Reaches Cherbourg
Edward Smith · Exploration and Discovery

Commands Titanic during the first scheduled stop of her maiden voyage at Cherbourg.

Provenance

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