A return in 12 years to Cobh again reminded me of the town’s connection with the ill-fated liner – Titantic.

It was April 11th, 1912 at 1.30pm, the Titanic leaves Queenstown (and now named Cobh) and heads across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage to New York.

However just over three days later at 2.30am on April 15th and the world’s most luxurious ocean liner is lying at the bottom of the Atantic Ocean.

There is reminders everywhere in Cobh of the Titanic’s last port of call along with a memorial to the Lusitania that was sunk by a German U-boat in 1917 and lying some 12 miles off the coast at the Old Head of Kinsale.

And if you look closely there is also a Mauretania Bar, and named after Mauretania that was built in 1907 and was the world’s largest ship before the launch in 1911 of the Olympic.

Here is a selection of photographs of the many reminders of all three ships to be found in Cobh.

* Click on photographs to enlarge