All of the Titanic images that I have accumulated over the years. These are in no particular order. I add them to the top as I find something new. As high as an eleven story building and nearly four city blocks long, the Titanic was one of the largest and most magnificent ships in the world (photographed in 1912). Source Titanic at the fitters quay with the three working funnels installed. The fourth funnel on the Olympic class ships was a dummy intended to make the ship look more impressive and safer to the public. The public feeling was that the more funnels a ship had the safer it was. Also, since Cunard's newest ships, Mauretania and Lusitania, had four funnels it was thought that White Star ships should not have less. Aft grand staircase dome: Decorated like the forward grand staircase dome featured in the movie Titanic, the aft grand staircase led down to the deluxe a la carte restaurant, allowing patrons to arrive in style. (Copyright 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC; Produced by AIVL, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) According to the claims for compensation filed with Commissioner Gilchrist, following the conclusion of the Senate Inquiry, the single most highly valued item of luggage or cargo was a large neoclassical oil painting entitled La Circassienne au Bain by French artist Merry-Joseph Blondel. The painting's owner, first class passenger Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson, filed a claim for $100,000 ($2.4 million equivalent in 2014) in compensation for the loss of the artwork. Dorothy Gibson in a promotional photo for Saved From the Titanic (1912), wearing the clothes she wore the night of the sinking. Dorothy Gibson's most famous screen role was that of herself in Saved From the Titanic (1912), based on her experiences in the legendary disaster, released a month after the sinking, was the first of many films about the event. The Titanic is the best known aspect of Dorothy's life. After a six-week vacation in Italy with her mother, she was returning on the Titanic to make a new series of pictures for Eclair at Fort Lee. The women had been playing bridge with friends in the lounge on the night of the ship's fatal collision with the iceberg. With two of their game partners they escaped in Lifeboat #7, the first lifeboat launched. After arriving in New York on the rescue ship Carpathia, Dorothy was persuaded by her manager to appear in a film based on the sinking. She not only starred in the one-reel drama but also wrote the scenario. She even appeared in the same clothing she had worn aboard the Titanic that night—a white silk evening dress topped with a cardigan and polo coat. Although Saved From the Titanic was a tremendous success in America, Britain, and France, the only known prints were destroyed in a 1914 fire at the Eclair Studios in New Jersey. The loss of the motion picture is considered by film historians to be one of the greatest of the silent era. Dorothy Gibson's other accomplishments in early cinema included starring in one of the first feature films made in the United States (Hands Across the Sea, 1911), co-starring in the first American-produced serial or chapter play (The Revenge of the Silk Masks, 1912), and making one of the first-ever public appearances by a movie personality (January 1912). Isidor and Ida Straus, who refused to board a lifeboat while there were younger people still waiting to board. Ida Straus, wife of New York merchant Isidor Straus, was asked to join a group of people preparing to board but refused, saying, "I will not be separated from my husband. As we have lived, so will we die – together." The 67-year-old Isidor likewise refused an offer to board on account of his age, saying: "I do not wish any distinction in my favor which is not granted to others." They were last seen alive on deck arm in arm. Edward John Smith, 27 January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was a British Merchant Navy officer. He served as master of numerous White Star Line vessels. Captain Smith was an experienced seaman who had served for 40 years at sea, including 27 years in command. This was the first real crisis of his career, and he most certainly would have known that even if all the boats were fully occupied, more than a thousand people would remain on the ship as she went down with little or no chance of survival. As Smith began to grasp the enormity of what was about to happen, he appeared to have become paralyzed by indecision. He had ordered passengers and crew to muster, but from that point onward, he failed to order his officers to put the passengers into the lifeboats; he did not adequately organize the crew; he failed to convey crucial information to his officers and crew; he sometimes gave ambiguous or impractical orders and he never gave the command to abandon ship. Even some of his bridge officers were unaware for some time after the collision that the ship was sinking; Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall did not find out until 01:15, barely an hour before the ship went down, while Quartermaster George Rowe was so unaware of the emergency that after the evacuation had started, he phoned the bridge from his watch station to ask why he had just seen a lifeboat go past. Smith did not inform his officers that the ship did not have enough lifeboats to save everyone. He did not supervise the loading of the lifeboats and seemingly made no effort to find out if his orders were being followed. Bow of the RMS Titanic, photographed in 2004. The wreck is located 370 miles south-southeast of Newfoundland, North Atlantic Ocean. The wreck lies in two main pieces about a third of a mile apart. The bow is still largely recognizable, despite its deterioration and the damage it sustained hitting the sea floor, and has a great deal of preserved interiors. The stern is completely ruined due to sinking 12,000 feet and hitting the ocean floor, and is now only a heap of twisted metal, which may explain why it has barely been explored during expeditions to the Titanic wreck. A substantial section of the middle of the ship broke apart and is scattered in chunks across the sea bed. A debris field covering about 5 by 3 miles around the wreck contains hundreds of thousands of items spilled from the ship as she sank, ranging from passengers' personal effects to machinery, furniture, utensils and coal, as well as fragments of the ship herself. The bodies of the passengers and crew would have also been distributed across the debris field, but have since decomposed and been consumed by other organisms. Exploration of the wreckage found a pair of boots together on the sea floor where a passenger's body had lain. More than two miles down, the ghostly bow of the Titanic emerges from the darkness on a dive by explorer and filmmaker James Cameron in 2001. The ship might have survived a head-on collision with an iceberg, but a sideswipe across her starboard side pierced too many of her watertight compartments. PHOTOGRAPH BY WALDEN MEDIA Two of Titanic’s engines lie exposed in a gaping cross section of the stern. Draped in “rusticles”—orange stalactites created by iron-eating bacteria—these massive structures, four stories tall, once powered the largest moving man-made object on Earth. PHOTOGRAPH © 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC. PRODUCED BY AIVL, WHOI THE FIRST COMPLETE VIEWS OF THE LEGENDARY WRECK Ethereal views of Titanic’s bow offer a comprehensiveness of detail never seen before. The optical mosaics each consist of 1,500 high-resolution images rectified using sonar data. As the starboard profile shows, the Titanic buckled as it plowed nose-first into the seabed, leaving the forward hull buried deep in mud—obscuring, possibly forever, the mortal wounds inflicted by the iceberg. PHOTOGRAPH © 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC. PRODUCED BY AIVL, WHOI Titanic’s battered stern, captured here in profile and overhead, bears witness to the extreme trauma inflicted upon it as it corkscrewed to the bottom. Making sense of this tangle of metal presents endless challenges to experts. Says one: “If you’re going to interpret this stuff, you gotta love Picasso.” PHOTOGRAPH © 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC. PRODUCED BY AIVL, WHOI With her rudder cleaving the sand and two propeller blades peeking from the murk, Titanic’s mangled stern rests on the abyssal plain, 1,970 feet south of the more photographed bow. This optical mosaic combines 300 high-resolution images taken on a 2010 expedition. PHOTOMOSAICS © 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC, A SUBSIDIARY OF PREMIER EXHIBITIONS, INC. PRODUCED BY AIVL, WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI) This porthole is among more than 5,500 objects retrieved from the ocean floor around the wreck of the Titanic. Steel hull plates flexed on impact with the seabed, popping out the rigid portholes PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK THIESSEN, NGM STAFF ALL ARTIFACTS COURTESY RMS TITANIC, INC. A gentleman’s pocket watch in a sterling silver case may have been set to New York time in anticipation of a safe arrival. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK THIESSEN, NGM STAFF ALL ARTIFACTS COURTESY RMS TITANIC, INC. A hat of felted rabbit fur likely belonged to a businessman. In an era when dress defined the man, the bowler marked the professional class. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK THIESSEN, NGM STAFF ALL ARTIFACTS COURTESY RMS TITANIC, INC. From left to right: First Officer William M Murdoch, Chief Officer Joseph Evans, Fourth Officer David Alexander and Capt. Edward J. Smith seen on the Olympic. Outside of the Officer's Quarters. Paintings by Ken Marschall© Ken Marschall Prints and Posters Available at transatlanticdesigns.com I have tried to find information on this photo. I used Google Lens, and it takes me to several "click here for Titanic photos", so I am not 100% sure if it's from the wreckage. That same site had a photo floating around (no pun intended) of the intact Grand Staircase underwater, knowing that it broke apart and floated out of the top before the ship even hit the sea floor. The richest passenger on the Titanic was John Jacob Astor IV, and was thought to be among the richest people in the world at that time, with a net worth of roughly $87 million (equivalent to $2.64 billion in 2022) when he died. He was last seen smoking a cigarette on deck with an American journalist and mystery writer Jacques Heath Futrelle. Every engineer went down with the ship. They stayed behind to run the power so others would have a chance to escape. The first newspaper to release the story of the Titanic reported that no lives were lost. It took two days for an accurate report to be released. .Over at the Retronaut they’ve highlighted some early, overly-optimistic newspaper reports that came out after the Titanic sank in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. The World reported “Titanic Sinking; No Lives Lost.” The Vancouver Daily Province declared “The Titanic Sinking, But Probably No Lives Lost.” Meanwhile, The New York Times got closer to the truth with its lengthy headline: “Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg; 866 Rescued By Carpathia, Probably 1,250 Perish; Ismay Safe, Mrs. Astor Maybe, Noted Names Missing.” The real death toll climbed to 1,514. Last year, on the 100th anniversary of the maritime tragedy Director James Camron released a video depicting how the Titanic sank. A passenger who lived through the traumatic fire and sinking of a ship in 1871 faced his fears and boarded the Titanic in 1912. He sank with the ship. On 24 December 1871 Ramon Artagaveytia survived the fire and sinking of the ship America, close to the shore of Punta Espinillo, Uruguay. Newspapers reported that the America had been racing another ship into Montevideo harbor and high boiler pressures had led to a fire. There were 114 first class, 20 second class and 30 "popular" class. Only 65 passengers survived. Ramon escaped by jumping into the sea and swimming for his life. Many of the passengers were horribly burned, and the episode left Ramon emotionally scarred. He boarded the Titanic in Cherbourg (ticket number PC 17609, £49 10s 1d) on April 10, 1912, his cabin number remains a mystery as it was never designated on the stateroom assignment list found in the pocket of steward Herbert Cave whose body was later recovered and little is known about Mr Artagaveytia during the voyage. A new rust-eating bacteria, Halomonas Titanicae, will consume of what is left of the Titanic. The attack by the bacteria, added to sea currents and weather conditions, have led many experts to predict that by 2050 The Titanic will be devoured in its entirety, leaving only a story of tragedy around it. The Titanic musicians played 2 hours and 5 minutes as the ship sank. After the Titanic hit an iceberg and began to sink, Band Leader Wallace Hartley and his fellow band members started playing music to help keep the passengers calm as the crew loaded the lifeboats. Many of the survivors said that Hartley and the band continued to play until the very end. Reportedly, their final tune was the hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee". One second-class passenger said: Many brave things were done that night, but none were more brave than those done by men playing minute after minute as the ship settled quietly lower and lower in the sea. The music they played served alike as their own immortal requiem and their right to be recalled on the scrolls of undying fame. All eight musicians died in the sinking. William Brailey (London, England. Age 24. Pianist) Roger Bricoux (Cosne-sur-Loire, France. Age 20. Cellist) John Clarke (Liverpool, England. Age 28. Bassist) Wallace Hartley (Lancashire, England. Age 33. Bandmaster, violinist) Jock Humes (Dumfries, Scotland. Age 21. Violinist) Georges Krins (Spa, Belgium. Age 23. Violinist) Percy Taylor (London, England. Age 40. Cellist) John Wesley Woodward (West Bromwich, England. Age 32. Cellist There were 13 couples that were on their honeymoon when the Titanic sank. Chief Baker Charles Joughin reportedly swam for two hours in freezing waters before he was rescued. He attributed his survival to the generous amounts of whisky that he drank before the sinking.
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