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Titanic Victim Photographs: Faces of those lost in the Tragic Disaster. Explore a gallery of photographs featuring the passengers and crew who perished in the RMS Titanic disaster. These images honour their memory and provide a poignant reminder of the tragedy.
Explore a captivating gallery of photographs showing the Titanic wreck and the recovery of artefacts, including rare images from one of the earliest expeditions to the site.
- Deck of Titanic. Titanic is probably the most famous shipwreck of all time. It was the largest and most luxurious ship in the world when it launched on 31 May 1911.
- Bow of the wrecked Titanic. At 11.39 on 14 April, four days after departing Southampton, lookouts spotted an iceberg dead ahead of the ship. The crew desperately tried to avoid the collision, but the iceberg struck the vessel on its starboard side, leaving a 200-foot gash in the ship into which water began to seep.
- Rusticles on Titanic‘s stern. Microbes at work nearly 4 kilometres under the sea feed off iron on the ship, forming “rusticles”. Given the way the embrittled steel at the stern of the ship provides a better “habitat” for rusticles, scientists have determined that the stern section of the ship is deteriorating at a faster rate than the bow section.
- Window frames on Titanic. Rusticles grow on either side of the window frames belonging to the Titanic. The icicle-like rusticle formations appear to pass through a cycle of growth, maturation and then fall away.
May 22, 2023 · More than a century after the Titanic sank during her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, deep-sea researchers have created the first full-sized, 3D digital scan of the wreckage.
Apr 17, 2013 · This collection of photographs captures the Titanic and its fatal voyage. Get the latest History stories in your inbox? Click to visit our Privacy Statement. The Titanic struck a North...
Sep 1, 2015 · See Photos of the Wreck of the Titanic When It Was First Discovered. W hen the Titanic sank in 1912, the famous ship wasn’t exactly sailing in obscurity. Yet it took decades before the...
The new scan captures the wreck in its entirety, revealing a complete view of the Titanic. It lies in two parts, with the bow and the stern separated by about 800m (2,600ft). A huge debris...
