Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later

Apr 15, 2012 16:57pm
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • The Titanic departed Southampton in southern England at noon, April 10, 1912 and was due to arrive in New York City on April 15. The RMS Titanic, once described as a "practically unsinkable" ship, sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912. Ninety-nine years later the Titanic still remains the subject of popular fiction. 1912: The ill-fated White Star liner RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • April 1912: Survivors of the 'Titanic' disaster on board a tug, arriving at Plymouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • April 1912: Lowering the lifeboats on the SS Titanic after the liner collided with an iceberg. Original Publication: From a page of The Graphic, 1912. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • April 1912: Survivors of the Titanic disaster boarding a tug from the liner which rescued them. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • 10th April 1912: The first class passenger list from the ill-fated liner the Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Survivors of the Titanic disaster are greeted by their relatives upon their safe return to Southampton. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • 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)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • An artist's impression of Captain Edward Smith (1850 - 1912) giving his last orders to the crew of the doomed White Star liner Titanic, 15th April 1912. Drawing by Douglas Macpherson Original publication: The Graphic - pub. 27th April 1912 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • 20th April 1912: Illustrations and photographs of the 'Titanic' and its passengers and crew. The Graphic - pub. 1912 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • 16th April 1912: Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the Evening News telling of the Titanic maritime disaster, outside the White Star Line offices at Oceanic House in London's Cockspur Street. Six years later Parfett was killed during a German bombardment whilst serving in France, just days before the end of World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Captain John Smith, captain of the White Star liner 'Olympic'. He later became captain of the ill-fated 'Titanic'. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • 9th June 1911: Captain John Smith (1850 - 1912) and Lord James Pirrie, Chairman of the Harland & Wolff Shipyard, on the deck of the White Star Liner 'Olympic'. Captain Smith later became Captain of the ill-fated 'Titanic' and went down with his ship. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • 1912: The Lord Mayor of London arriving at St Paul's Cathedral, London, for the memorial service for the victims of the 'Titanic' disaster. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • 23rd April 1912: Reverend Hartley, who was lost in the 'Titanic' shipping disaster, with his niece and daughter who both survived the tragedy. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • 27th April 1912: A diagram from the time of the 'Titanic' disaster, predicting the possibility of crossing the Atlantic in a day by air, and so avoiding the dangers caused by icebergs. Original Publication: The Graphic - pub. 1912 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Overcrowded lifeboats are lowered from the stricken Titanic in a scene from Roy Ward Baker's 1958 film 'A Night To Remember', based on the sinking of the White Star liner on 14th April 1912. (Photo by John Pratt/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • A page from a feature in The Graphic, following the homecoming of the 167 surviving crew of the White Star liner Titanic, which sank on 15th April 1912, as they arrived at Plymouth on the SS Lapland, 4th May 1912. Original publication: The Graphic, pub 4th May 1912 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Circa 1910: Banking and mining millionaire, Benjamin Guggenheim with his wife Florette Seligman. Guggenheim died when the liner 'Titanic' sank in April 1912. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • 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)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Lifeboats on board the SS Titanic. When the liner sank in the Atlantic after hitting an iceberg there were only enough lifeboats on board to hold a third of the passengers and crew. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
  • Rare pics: Remembering the Titanic 100 years later
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