The History Buff-Titanic

Everything from artifacts to stories about the Titanic

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Here is the cover of a January 1913 brochure for the White Star line. The ship pictured at the bottom is the Olympic, the sister ship of the Titanic.

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Brochure for The White Star Line 1913

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Titanic boarding pass April 10, 1912

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This photo is believed to be the last photo ever taken of the RMS Titanic before it sunk in April 1912.

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In a rare and wonderful treat for Titanic historians and casual fans alike, “new” photos of the Titanic have surfaced in a private collection and have been shown to the public for the first time in a century.

The photos show Titanic’s launch from the Harland and Wolff Arrol Gantry when she was just an empty hull, and the complete and freshly-painted ship’s departure from Belfast for sea trials. Other photos from the same collection also show Olympic, Titanic’s identical sister ship. All photos above are of Titanic.

While the number of photos of Titanic publicly known to exist is relatively small compared to those of Olympic, even as these new photos have been unveiled, there are most certainly other photos in private collections that have yet to be discovered or released.

The photos are currently on display at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Read more here.

Photos courtesy: National Museums Northern Ireland

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Either Titanic or Olympic with 3 funnels. I think Titanic because Olympic had her hull painted grey.

Source of photo, probably Harland and Wolff.

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Titanic survivors waiting in a lifeboat for the Carpathia to come rescue them.

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Millvina Dean, born in February 1912, seen here with her brother Bertram Dean. Along with her mother and brother, she was placed in a lifeboat. Her father died.  Millvina Dean, said to be the oldest Titanic survivor, died at age 97 in 2009.

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Example of a 3rd class cabin 

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Michel, right, and Edmond Navratil, the "Titanic Orphans"

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Multimillionaire passenger John Jacob Astor IV and his young wifeMadeleine.

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American socialite - Molly Brown

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Click to subscribe at the link to get a free sample of news coverage of Titanic in The New York Times 

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Reporters scrambled for any news they could get for their newspapers. When they didn't get it, they guessed at it. Here, the Evening Sun and The New York Times see the events very differently.

Titanic was about 960 miles from New York when it hit the iceberg. Mr. Van Anda and Mr. Chapin did not have the tools that later editors would take advantage of, like chartered airplanes that could fly them over the wreckage in a couple of hours — the year before, the Vin Fiz, a Wright Brothers airplane piloted by Cal Rogers, had taken 84 days to hopscotch the country.

And the Carpathia, the ship that rescued survivors from the Titanic, was under a virtual news blackout. Its telegraph operators were not distributing messages from newspapers seeking information about the Titanic.

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Titanic has been so popular and even 100 years later, the fascination still holds. Titanic Museums and Exhibits can be seen in over 20 cities in the USA and abroad.

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Millvina Dean, oldest living survivor of Titanic disaster.

British Titanic Society Titanic Convention, Hilton Hotel, Southampton, U.K. 1999. CC BY-SA 3.0 Caricato da Stephend

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In poor condition, this is an original dinner menu of the Titanic

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Front page of the New York Herald April 15, 1912