Was this message in a bottle thrown from the Titanic hours before it sank? Note 'from French passenger' washes up in Canada 105 years after tragedy A message in a bottle purports to have been thrown from the deck of the Titanic on April 13, 1912 The note appears to have been written by a French schoolgirl who was travelling to New York to visit family She drowned alongside 1,500 others after liner hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton The bottle washed up on a beach in Canada 105 years, with scientists now probing its authenticity