Episode 5 of our ten-part series onThe Titanic Disaster follows the ship to her final port: Queenstown, Ireland, April 11, 1912. One hundred twenty Irish emigrants board, carrying everything they own and leaving behind everything they know. Seven passengers disembark, including a Jesuit priest named Francis Browne whose telegram-ordered departure would save his life and preserve the most comprehensive photographic record of the ship’s interior that would ever exist. Then the anchors come up, Ireland disappears below the horizon, and the Atlantic opens ahead.

The free episode covers the approach to Queenstown, the Irish emigrants who boarded and where they were going, Father Browne’s photographs and the seven words that saved his life, and the final departure, the moment the last link to Europe was severed and the ship turned west toward whatever was waiting.

The full premium episode goes deeper on Queenstown itself, the Ireland those emigrants were leaving, the lost mail that went down with the ship, and the music of third class in those final days before the iceberg.

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