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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 · Updated: 13:46, 9 Nov 2020. WITH a groan of tortured metal and the screams of the remaining passengers still clinging to her hull, Titanic sank beneath the waves and the last unlaunched canvas...
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...
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.
- 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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Apr 14, 2022 · Fish have been pictured in the vicinity of the Titanic wreck. On the surface, the water’s freezing temperatures meant that many of the survivors in the water died of hypothermia before the first rescuers on board RMS Carpathia arrived around 4 am on 15 April 1912.
Jan 19, 2012 · This gallery contains haunting images of the Titanic — the ship before it sank, passengers during rescue efforts and the ship in its current deteriorating condition.
