The 500-foot Spanish luxury liner (the largest wreck in Bermuda's waters) was one of the fastest boats in her day.

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The 289-meter (nearly 950-foot) luxury liner, which has a capacity of 2, 600 passengers, had docked in Ushuaia several times in recent years, she said.

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Some pieces serve as sturdy reminders of the 882-foot-long liner's "unsinkable" billing, such as a 17-ton piece of the hull that still contains thick rivets and porthole views into what would have been a pair of third-class cabins.

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To design the museum he tapped Tadao Ando of Japan, whose dramatic 320, 000-square-foot building was to be shaped like a giant ocean liner topped by twin glass towers.

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