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RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship ant the most luxurious ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. She carried 2,224 people. In this photo: Titanic at the docks of Southampton prior to her departure on 10 April 1912 at 9:30 am
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The RMS Titanic ready for launch. The ship was constructed on Queen's Island, now known as the Titanic Quarter, in Belfast Harbour where was part of the Harland and Wolff shipyard.
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Propellers of RMS Titanic in Dry-dock before its launch.
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General view of Titanic in the fitting-out berth following her launch, the final stages of construction and outfitting were carried out here
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The Olympic (left) at side of Famous Titanic, probably the only photograph of sister ships together.
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Titanic leaving Belfast for her sea trials on 2 April 1912. Titanic's sea trials began at 6 am on Monday, 2 April 1912, just two days after her fitting out was finished and eight days before she was due to leave Southampton on her maiden voyage.[74] The trials were delayed for a day due to bad weather
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Titanic leaving Belfast for her sea trials on 2 April 1912
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RMS Titanic at sea before her maiden voyage
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RMS Titanic at sea before her maiden voyage
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The maiden voyage began on time at noon. An accident was narrowly averted only a few minutes later as Titanic passed the moored liners SS City of New York and Oceanic. Her huge displacement caused both of the smaller ships to be lifted by a bulge of water, then dropped into a trough. New York's mooring cables could not take the sudden strain and snapped, swinging her round stern-first towards Titanic. A nearby tugboat, Vulcan, came to the rescue by taking New York under tow and Captain Smith ordered Titanic's engines to be put 'full astern'. The two ships only avoided a collision by a matter of about 4 feet (1.2 m). The incident delayed Titanic's departure for about an hour while the drifting New York was brought under control
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The After Grand Staircase aboard Titanic. The staircase has been depicted in numerous books, films including the Cameron's 1997 blockbuster film Titanic.
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RMS Titanic A-Deck Promenade Deck. The arrow is pointing to the entry to the 1st Class Grand Staircase.
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1st Class Dining Saloon on the D-Deck aboard Titanic.
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Reading and Writing Room on the A-Deck aboard Titanic.
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Titanic's first class reception room
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An illustration of the Grand Staircase aboard Titanic, by White Star Line - the company that operated Titanic. The staircase has been depicted in numerous books, films including the Cameron's 1997 blockbuster film Titanic.
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Colorized black-white photo of Titanic's first class gymnasium.
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Advertisement of a luxury soap made available to first class passengers onboard Titanic
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An undated 1912 photograph of Titanic's Captain Edward John Smith. 62-year-old Smith, the most senior of the White Star Line's captains, was transferred from Olympic to take command of Titanic. He perished along with the ship
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John Jacob Astor IV in 1909. He and his wife were the wealthiest people aboard Titanic
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Seven of the eight members of Titanic's band, who became a focus for many commemorations of the disaster
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SS Californian, which had tried to warn Titanic of the danger from pack-ice. SS Californian had been only a few miles from Titanic but had not picked up her distress calls or responded to her signal rockets for which her captain and crew came under immense criticism. Californian had warned the Titanic by radio of the pack ice which was the reason Californian had stopped for the night, but was rebuked by Titanic's senior wireless operator, Jack Phillips
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US Navy memorandum about the Titanic
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Extract of US Navy memorandum about the Titanic.
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Last lifeboat arrived, filled with Titanic survivors. This photograph was taken by a passenger of the Carpathia, the ship that received the Titanic's distress signal and came to rescue the survivors. It shows the last lifeboat successfully launched from the Titanic
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This image provided by the New York Times shows its April 16, 1912 front page coverage of the Titanic disaster. The largest ship afloat at the time, the Titanic sank in the north Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. AP
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This file photo shows the Wednesday, 17 April 1912 front page of the Owensboro Daily Messenger headlining news that Titanic had sunk. AP
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In this April 1912 file photo, crowds gather around the bulletin board of the New York American newspaper, where the names of people rescued from the sinking Titanic are displayed. It was a news story that would change the news. From the moment that a brief Associated Press dispatch relayed the wireless distress call _ 'Titanic ... reported having struck an iceberg. The steamer said that immediate assistance was required' _ reporters and editors scrambled. In ways that seem familiar today, they adapted a dawning newsgathering technology and organized saturation coverage and managed to cover what one authority calls 'the first really, truly international news event where anyone anywhere in the world could pick up a newspaper and read about it.' AP
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This April 3, 2012 photo shows the index cards from the Associated Press Corporate Archive in New York listing stories written by the wire service about the Titanic. AP
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The New York Herald reports the disaster
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Italian newspaper Il secolo reports the disaster.
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Carpathia docked in New York following the rescue of Titanic's survivors
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A graphic illustration of Carpathia's arrival by a Boston Globe artist. According to an eyewitness report, there 'were many pathetic scenes' when Titanic's survivors disembarked at New York
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Margaret Brown (right) giving Captain Arthur Henry Rostron (of Carpathia) an award for his service in the rescue of the Titanic's survivors
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Photo of the iceberg which was probably rammed by the RMS Titanic; photographed five days after the disaster by Bohemian seaman Stephan Rehorek
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Willy Stwer, German maritime painter (1864-1931), illustration of Titanic's sinking
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37. Deck plan blueprints of Titanic
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The iceberg buckled the plates, popping rivets and damaging a sequence of compartments. An engineer from Titanic's builders, Harland and Wolff, suggested this scenario at a British enquiry following the disaster but his view was discounted. Recent research and exploration by unmanned submersible have proved his theory right
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This memorial stone is the second and original Titanic memorial in Southampton, erected on the site of the Central City Library. However, this one is a replica. The original was destroyed by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) in 1940 (during World War 2) together with the library on this site. Most people associate the Titanic memorial with the other, larger one to the Titanic engineer officers; and that usually gets most attention. Few people know that this smaller one exists. This replica was erected 1990 when the bombsite was finally cleared and rebuilt
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Memorial to the engineers who died on board the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage, in Andrews Park, Southampton, UK. The inscription reads: Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his live for his friends. To the memory of the engineer officers of the R. M. S. 'Titanic' who showed their high conception of duty and their heroism by remaining at their posts. 15th April 1912. Erected by their fellow engineers and friends throughout the world. On the sides the names of all 35 engineers are listed
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Titanic compared in size with today's luxury vessel Queen Mary 2, Airbus 380, Bus, Car and a person. The black figure represents Titanic
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The bow of the wrecked RMS Titanic, photographed in June 2004. It has been estimated that within the next 50 years the hull and structure of Titanic will collapse entirely, eventually leaving only the more durable interior fittings of the ship intermingled with a pile of rust on the sea floor.
