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SAINT JOHN, N.B. The tragic tale of the Titanic still captures attention more than 100 years after the passenger liner sank in the North Atlantic 600 km southeast of Cape Race, N.L. Now, Canadian researchers are investigating the authenticity of a message in a bottle allegedly thrown from the liner before it went down. Four years ago, a family walking along the shores of the Hopewell Rocks near Hopewell Cape, N.B., stumbled upon a maritime mystery. It was a still-sealed bottle with a message inside a letter dated April 13, 1912 and signed by Mathilde Lefebvre. That s the name of a passenger on the Titanic, who perished in the tragedy.
This August 2019 photo courtesy of Atlantic Productions shows the latest image of the bow of RMS Titanic which rests 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) below the Atlantic Ocean, and 370 miles (595kms) south of Newfoundland, Canada. - Photo by HO /AFP/Getty Images
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MONTREAL Researchers from Universite du Quebec a Rimouski are trying to solve the mystery about whether a letter in a bottle washed up in New Brunswick in 2017 is from a young victim of the Titanic.
The letter was purportedly written by Mathilde Lefevbre, a 12-year-old schoolgirl from northern France who was a passenger in third class and among the poorer people on the ill-fated passenger liner.