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| | O NAUFRÁGIO DO "LUSITANIA" |
 | | A clergyman's bride and a policeman were sucked into the huge funnels as they filled with water, only to be blown out seconds later, near-naked, when the boilers or steam-lines exploded. |
 | | They survived, but 785 of the 1,257 passengers did not; neither did 413 of the 702 crew, 94 of the 129 children or 34 of the 39 babies. |
 | | Survivors reported a "long, lingering moan" from the doomed as the ship went down, rising to "a mighty crescendo of screams" which died away to a whisper as the waters closed over her. |
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