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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.
Apr 20, 2016 · Whitened by the chill wind and salt spray, two dead Titanic firemen lay prone in the water-logged wreck. Beside them was the corpse of first class passenger Thomson Beattie, 37, still in his...
Titanic Wreck Pictures. 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.
- Was The Titanic Doomed to sink?
- The Sinking of The Titanic
- How The Carpathia Rescued Survivors
- Questions About The Sinking of The Titanic
Construction of the RMS Titanic began in 1909 in Belfast, Ireland. It took 26 months and the work of thousands of laborers to build. But even though the ship attracted attention for its size — at 882 feet long, the Titanic was then the largest ship ever built— some believe it was flawed from the start. Some have theorized that the Titanic was built...
The Titanic left Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912. Just days before the Titanicsank, passengers were photographed on the deck strolling by the lifeboats, completely unaware that they'd soon have to be put to use. Indeed, the first couple of days of the Titanic'svoyage were peaceful. It made stops in Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland...
Upon hearing the Titanic's distress call, the Carpathiahad charged to its rescue. The captain, Arthur Henry Rostron, steered the ship through 58 miles of treacherously icy waters and arrived at around 3:30 or 4 a.m. By then, the Titanichad disappeared into the North Atlantic. "On all sides we could see lifeboats making laboriously toward us, some d...
Why did the Titanicsink? Many theories have been suggested over the years. Some point to the ship itself. In addition to its cheaper rivets and its compartments, one theory suggests that the ship had suffered from a coal fire, which weakened its hull. Another postulates that the ship's navigation system malfunctioned because of interference from th...
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Left: Postcard photographs of bodies recovered from the wreck of the steamer S.S. Eastland, which capsized in the Chicago River on July 24, 1915. Photographs of the bodies recovered in the Titanic disaster were made for identification purposes, and are rare.
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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...
