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Titanic: 100 years of history The 100th anniversary of the ill-fated voyage has reignited the world’s fascination with the disaster.
May 1911
It took three years to build the Titanic, which was constructed at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, which was then one of the world's largest dry docks. The price tag was $7.5 million at the time.
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May 31, 1911
The ship had three propellers, all cast in bronze, weighing 38 tons and measuring more than 22 feet in diameter.
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Harland and Wolff shipyard, where the Titanic was constructed, had to produce the world's largest steam-powered engines and anchors. The engines were as big as a three-story house. The ship's keel, or backbone, was laid first, then the steel frame was attached by rivets to form the hull. This photo is part of the Titanic Collection for auction through Guerney's Auction House.
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A view of the second-class deck. There were eight steel decks, and passengers divided according to their tickets: first class, second class and steerage, or third class. This photo is part of the Titanic Collection for auction through Guerney's Auction House.
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The Titanic was part of a line of three ships that were intended to be the most spectacular "Royal Mail Ships" ever constructed. They were the Olympic, the Titanic and the Gigantic, later named the Britannic. The ships were intended to keep the White Star Line from losing business to its competition; their large size could ferry more people across the Atlantic, and their elegant compartments would attract wealthy travelers. This photo is part of the Titanic Collection for auction through Guerney’s Auction House.
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1912
The three ships in the Olympic class were the first to have onboard swimming pools, gymnasiums and squash courts. The second-class quarters were also considerably nicer than those of other ships at that time.
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May 27, 1912
View from the S.S. Carpathia of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. The sinking led to many reforms, including rules mandating lifeboat capacity and 24-hour radio service for all ships, as well as the establishment of the International Ice Patrol.
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April 1912
Titanic survivors on the way to the Carpathia, which came to their aid. Of the 2,208 passengers, 1,496 people died in the sinking. Most died of hypothermia after being thrown into the ocean.
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A lifeboat from the Titanic. J. Bruce Ismay, the chairman of the company that owned the ship, safely secured a seat in lifeboat C. This photo is part of the Titanic Collection for auction through Guerney’s Auction House.
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1912
Crewman Frederick Fleet was among the survivors.
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Guerney's Auction House of New York is auctioning the Titanic Collection, a lot of 5,500 artifacts recovered from the wreck site along with a large body of intellectual property. This photo is part of the Titanic Collection for auction through Guerney’s Auction House.
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April 1912
Survivor Stuart Collett on the deck of the Carpathia.
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1912
A family of survivors. Many more first-class passengers survived than others — 53 percent, compared with 22 percent of third-class passengers.
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April 1912
Survivors on board the Carpathia. The first lifeboat was picked up around 4:10 a.m., nearly two hours after the last boat departed the sinking ship.
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Margaret Brown, wife of millionaire James Joseph Brown, famously became known as "the Unsinkable Molly Brown" after she aided in the ship's evacuation and sought to get her lifeboat to go back for more survivors.
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Walter Chamberlain Porter was a first-class passenger.
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Isidor and Ida Straus, owners of R.J. Macy & Co., died on the ship. Ida refused to get on a lifeboat without her husband and insisted that her newly employed maid, Ellen Bird, take her place. This photo is part of the Titanic Collection for auction through Guerney’s Auction House.
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A portrait of Benjamin Guggenheim, who died on the ship. This photo is part of the Titanic Collection for auction through Guerney’s Auction House.
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April 1912
A crowd awaited the survivors of the Titanic.
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May 29, 1912
Mrs. J.J. "Molly" Brown presented an award to Capt. Arthur Henry Roston, captain of the Carpathia, for his service in rescuing Titanic survivors.
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These medals were presented to Captain Rostron.
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April 1912
From left, an unidentified man, possibly Sydney C. Neale, Washington representative of the White Star Line; P.A.S. Franklin; Charles C. Burlingham; and J. Bruce Ismay in Washington to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee at a hearing on the Titanic disaster.
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April 1912
Crowds outside the offices of the White Star Line after the sinking.
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April 15, 1912
Captain Rostron of the Carpathia hand-wrote this account of his response to the Titanic's distress call.
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Paperboys sold copies of newspapers with headlines about the Titanic disaster. This photo is part of the Titanic Collection for auction through Guerney’s Auction House.
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May 4, 1912
The funeral procession of John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912), who died aboard the Titanic.
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July 28, 1986
Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution gave a thumbs-up as he returned aboard the research vessel Atlantis II from the site of the sunken Titanic. Ballard is leaning on JASON JR., a specially designed underwater robot he used to explore the wreckage of the Titanic at its final resting place 12,500 feet deep in the North Atlantic.
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The Titanic's bow, 2.5 miles under the North Atlantic.
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Aug. 29, 1996
Divers grappled with the ropes holding a 21-ton chunk of the Titanic during a recovery mission. The ropes later snapped, sending the huge piece of steel back to the bottom of the sea.
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May 25, 1999
Ed Syebk supervises the installation of a 26-by-20 foot section of the Titanic's C Deck hull, recovered from the wreck site, as it is lowered into a pool for display at the Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City.
Charles Rex Arbogast
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June 6, 2004
This photo, released by the Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island, shows the skylight frame from either the grand staircase or the aft staircase of the Titanic, resting on the sea floor.
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June 1, 2004
The port side forward expansion joint on the boat deck, in the vicinity of the officer's lavatory of the bow section, is shown in this high-definition video image courtesy of National Geographic.
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Sept. 10, 1998
A crane aboard the Akademik Keldysh research ship lowers a 23-foot-long submersible containing two tourists and a pilot toward the surface of the North Atlantic on Sept. 10, 1998. The tiny craft spent 2.5 hours descending 12,500 feet to view the wreck of the Titanic.
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September 1998
Anatoly Sagalevitch, head of the manned submersible laboratory of Russia’s P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, sits at the controls of the submersible Mir I. Sagalevitch guided the first tourists to the Titanic wreck in September 1998.
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April 17, 1998
Millvina Dean signs a "Titanic" movie poster at the Titanic Historical Society's convention in Springfield, Mass. Dean, the last survivor of the sinking — she was just nine weeks old, the youngest passenger on the ship, when the Titanic went down — died May 31, 2009, at 97.
Nancy Palmieri
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September 1998
The giant propeller of the ship rests on the floor of the North Atlantic.
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1998
This 1998 image provided by RMS Titanic Inc. shows a 17-ton portion of the hull of the ship as it is lifted to the surface during an expedition to the wreck site. The piece is among the 5,000 artifacts to be sold on April 11 in a 100th-anniversary auction.
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Jan. 28, 2000
A piece of the ship's hull, with broken glass left in a porthole, was displayed outside Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
Tannen Maury
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Jan. 28, 2000
A 13-ton piece of the ship's hull was maneuvered into the Museum of Science and Industry for its 2000 exhibit.
Tannen Maury
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