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  • The SS 'Titanic', leaving Belfast to start her trials, pulled by tugs, shortly before her disastrous maiden voyage of April 1912. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • Examining Lifebelts on Titanic, A photograph of a board of trade inspector examining lifebelts on Titanic at Southampton. Titanic was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast Ireland during 1910 - 1911 and later sank on April 15th, 1912 after striking an iceberg off the coast of New Foundland during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, USA, with the loss of 1,522 passengers and crew. (Photo by Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
  • The First Class Lounge on board RMS Titanic, 4th January 1912. The White Star Liner, built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, left Southampton and Cherbourg on her maiden voyage to New York on April 10th 1912. The steamship sank on April 15th 1912 off the coast of New Foundland after striking an iceberg with the loss of 1,635 passengers and crew,(Photo by Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
  • 4th April 1912: Latitude 41' 46N and longitude 50' 14W, the place where the 'Titanic' sank. Original Publication: The Graphic - pub. 1912 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Edward John Smith (1850 - 1912), captain of the White Star liner 'Olympic', 9th June 1911. He later became captain of the ill-fated 'Titanic'. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • Survivors of the 'Titanic' disaster in a crowded lifeboat. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)
  • 16th April 1912: Front page of The New York Times newspaper with headlines announcing the sinking of the 'Titanic' ocean liner, dated Tuesday. (Photo by Blank Archives/Getty Images)
  • London newspaper seller with banner announcing the loss of SS Titanic in 1912. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
  • A rope step ladder from one of Titanic's lifeboats is connected to the Carpathia to bring in survivors. The Carpathia was sailing from New York City to Rijeka on the night of Sunday, 14 April 1912. The captain, Arthur Henry Rostron, was asleep in his cabin when wireless operator Harold Cottam burst in and told him of Titanic's distress signal, Captain Rostron immediately set course to the liner's last known position, over 60 miles away, At 4 o'clock in the morning Carpathia arrived at the scene after working her way through dangerous ice fields and was able to save 705 people. Titanic was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast Ireland during 1910 - 1911 and sank on April 15th, 1912 after striking an iceberg off the coast of New Foundland during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, USA, with the loss of 1,522 passengers and crew. (Photo by Universal Images Group/Getty Images),
  • Titanic survivors being waited on by Carpathia passengers, Carpathia was sailing from New York City to Rijeka on the night of Sunday, 14 April 1912. The captain, Arthur Henry Rostron, was asleep in his cabin when wireless operator Harold Cottam burst in and told him of Titanic's distress signal, Captain Rostron immediately set course to the liner's last known position, over 60 miles away, At 4 o'clock in the morning Carpathia arrived at the scene after working her way through dangerous ice fields and was able to save 705 people. Titanic was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast Ireland during 1910 - 1911 and sank on April 15th, 1912 after striking an iceberg off the coast of New Foundland during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, USA, with the loss of 1,522 passengers and crew. (Photo by Universal Images Group/Getty Images),
  • Survivors of the 'Titanic' disaster at Millbay Docks in Plymouth, 1st May 1912. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Survivors of the Titanic disaster are greeted by their relatives upon their safe return to Southampton. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • 11th May 1912: A group of survivors from the Titanic arrive in Liverpool kitted out in suits and bowler hats and with suitcases. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • Survivors of the 'Titanic' disaster became minor celebrities and were sought after by autograph hunters. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • Banking and mining millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, father of Peggy Guggenheim. He died when the liner, Titanic sank in April 1912. Guggenheim is said to have to have changed into an evening suit before going down with the ship. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • 1912: Some of the survivors of the Titanic disaster. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • May 1912: The crew of the 'Titanic' waiting near one of the lions at Portsmouth Town Hall for the court to open. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • American millionaire businessman and lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, John Jacob Astor IV (1864 - 1912), circa 1898. Astor died in the sinking of the White Star liner Titanic on 15th April 1912. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Ida Straus (1849 - 1912) wife of the co-owner of the Macy's department store, and victim, with her husband Isidor, of the Titanic disaster, circa 1900. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Survivors of the loss of RMS Titanic: Michel and Edmond Navratil (aged 4 and 2), French brothers whose father died in the disaster of 12 April 1912, but who were identified and reunited with their mother. Shipwreck (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
  • Loss of White Star Line's Olympic-class vessel RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg on 12 April 1912 on her maiden voyage. Surviving wireless operator, Harold Bride, feet bandaged, being carried up gangway, New York. Disaster (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
  • The loss of SS Titanic, 14 April 1912: Members of the ship's crew in their life jackets. Operated by the White Star Line, SS Titanic struck an iceberg in thick fog off Newfoundland. She was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of her time, and thought to be unsinkable. In the collision five of her watertight compartments were compromised and she sank. Out of the 2228 people on board, only 705 survived. A major cause of the loss of life was the insufficient number of lifeboats she carried. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
 
 

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