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|description={{en|1=Hearses lined up on [[:en:Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] wharf (near the present Jetty 4 of [[:en:CFB Halifax|HMCS Dockyard]]) to carry [[:en:RMS Titanic|RMS Titanic]] victims to funeral parlours.
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|description={{en|1=Hearses lined up on [[:en:Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] wharf (near the present Jetty 4 of [[:en:CFB Halifax|HMCS Dockyard]]) to carry [[:en:RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] victims to funeral parlours.

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The [[:en:Atlantic Telegraph Company|Anglo-American Telegraph Company]]’s CS ''Minia'' was chartered on 21 April and went to sea the following day under the command of W.E.S. DeCarteret, with undertaker H.W. Snow and the Rev. H.W. Cunningham (rector, [[:en:St. George's (Round) Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia|Anglican Parish of St. George]], Brunswick Street, Halifax) aboard. The vessel arrived at the disaster area on Friday 26 April, where it joined the [[:en:CS Mackay-Bennett|MacKay-Bennett]] and remained until 3 May. Bad weather hampered the search throughout. After a week, only 17 bodies had been recovered; 15 were brought to Halifax to be claimed or interred.}}
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The [[:en:Atlantic Telegraph Company|Anglo-American Telegraph Company]]’s CS ''Minia'' was chartered on 21 April and went to sea the following day under the command of W.E.S. DeCarteret, with undertaker H.W. Snow and the Rev. H.W. Cunningham (rector, [[:en:St. George's (Round) Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia|Anglican Parish of St. George]], Brunswick Street, Halifax) aboard. The vessel arrived at the disaster area on Friday 26 April, where it joined the [[:en:CS Mackay-Bennett|''MacKay-Bennett'']] and remained until 3 May. Bad weather hampered the search throughout. After a week, only 17 bodies had been recovered; 15 were brought to Halifax to be claimed or interred.}}

|date=1912-05-06

|date=1912-05-06

|source=NSARM Photo Drawer - Transportation & Communication - Ships & Shipping - Titanic, no. 3 / neg. no.: N-0332 [http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/titanic/archives.asp?ID=10] [http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/halifax/archives.asp?ID=48]

|source=NSARM Photo Drawer - Transportation & Communication - Ships & Shipping - Titanic, no. 3 / neg. no.: N-0332 [http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/titanic/archives.asp?ID=10] [http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/halifax/archives.asp?ID=48]

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