On April 10th, 1912, the legendary cruise ship known as the Titanic, thought to be unsinkable, sails to New York from Southampton, England. As everyone knows, this inaugural journey was also the ship’s very last. You probably have seen the famous 1997 James Cameron movie, but it’s less likely that you will have seen these chill-inducing photos.
The Titanic under construction.
The Titanic unfinished at Belfast on May 31, 1911.
Under construction.
The Titanic, ready to be launched.
Titanic leaving Belfast for sea trials on April 2, 1912.
Men stand with the giant chain links that were forged for the ship’s Hingley anchor, 1910.
Ship means captain. Here is the captain Edward J. Smith (on the right) and his colleague, the superintendent Hugh Walter McElroy, pictured here on the Titanic’s deck.
Moving, this photo illustrates childhood innocence aboard the Titanic. A young boy plays, only a few days before the dramatic event.
Margaret Brown, nicknamed Molly, is a first-class passenger on the Titanic. Of modest origins and then brought into wealth, her outspokenness stood out. In the film, she becomes Jack Dawson’s protector.
The first-class gymnasium.
The ship’s reading and writing room.
A stateroom abord the Titanic.
Another of the ship’s many staterooms.
The ship’s Café Parisien.
The iceberg suspected of having sunk the RMS Titanic. This iceberg was photographed by the chief steward of the liner Prinz Adalbert on the morning of April 15, 1912, just a few miles south of where the Titanic went down.
Meanwhile, lifeboats take the survivors away from the heart-wrenching spectacle.
At 2:20am, the Titanic had fully sunk, broken in two pieces. It’s around two hours later that the Carpathia, a ship that was in the surroundings, comes to save passengers.
Another shot of the growing and anxious crowd.
Mrs. Charlotte Collyer with her daughter Marjorie, both of whom survived the disaster.
This young family survived to the sinking of the Titanic. We can see the trauma in their eyes that was spawned by the catastrophe.
Some survivors of the shipwreck were welcomed in Millbay Docks, Plymouth, on England’s coast. They seem exhausted and the tragedy will leave an indelible mark on their faces.