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A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me...in every way that a person can be saved. I don’t even have a picture of him. He exists now...only in my memory.

#titanic 1997

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Art of the sinking of Titanic by Ken Marschall 2/2

#rms titanic #ken marschall #art

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On every man and every woman's body was tied the sinister emblem of death at sea, and each one walked with his life-clutching pack to await the coming horrors. It was a fancy-dress ball in Dante's hell.

testimony of first-class passenger of Helen Candee

#rms titanic #quote #helen candee

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“Mr Jack Phillips, the wireless telegraph operator, who flashed through the darkness the messages calling for assistance for the Titanic. The code “S.O.S”, which is now used instead of “C.Q.D”, was picked up by vessels within a radius of several hundred miles. Mr Phillips is a son of Mr. and Mrs. G A Phillips, of Farncombe, Godalming. He is 25 years of age, and served as a telegraphist in the Godalming Post Office, afterwards joining the Marconi school in Liverpool. His first wireless appointment was on the Teutonic, after which he was appointed to the Mauretania, Lusitania and Oceanic, being tranferred to Titanic for her maiden trip.”

- Daily Sketch, Tuesday 16 April, 1912.

#rms titanic #jack phillips

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DID YOU KNOW: Titanic’s bandmaster received a massive funeral that rivaled that of a British Prime Minister? Wallace Hartley, the 33-year-old head of Titanic’s eight man band, was one of the bodies recovered from the sea by the CS Mackay-Bennett in late April, 1912. Hartley’s remains were returned to his hometown of Colne, Lancashire, and a massively elaborate funeral was held. Over 1,000 mourners attended the funeral itself, while between 30 and 40 thousand people lined the route from the church to the Keighley Road cemetery where Hartley was to be buried. In contrast, when Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman had died in 1908 at 10 Downing Street - to date the only Prime Minister to die at the address - his funeral was much more subdued, with only a few hundred mourners at Westminster Abbey.

#wallace hartley #rms titanic #<3

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Titanic + scenery.

#titanic 1997

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James Moody being reported as missing in the press shortly after the Titanic sinking.

#:( #james paul moody #rms titanic

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TITANIC: BLOOD AND STEEL (2012)

“Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to give you the only ocean liner worthy of her name — the RMS Titanic!”

#fave! #underrated show #titanic blood and steel

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Print of the Titanic being fitted out in Belfast. Part of a job lot of Titanic related prints from a collection that was used as reference for the Titanic movie.

#rms titanic #!!!

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APRIL 14th 1912 - TITANIC HITS THE ICEBURG

During the course of the day, the Titanic was sent numerous warnings about the iceberg from other vessels, the first warning sent from the Caronia at 9.00am. A total of five warnings were sent . On the same day the first scheduled lifeboat drill was cancelled by Captain Edward Smith without explanation - meaning that the crew were unrehearsed in what to do when the time came. At 5.50pm Titanic changes course from south west to due west. This was originally planned to occur at 5.30pm but was delayed to allow Titanic to travel further south in an attempt to avoid the ice region reported by the Baltic. This change should have directed the Titanic into an area of the gulf stream that would be free of icebergs; in any normal year this would be the case, but 1912 was not a normal year for ice – cold water had pushed the warm gulf stream further south – and the change in direction actually put the ship on a collision course with the iceberg.

At 9.40pm Senior Wireless Operator Jack Phillips receives the fifth and final ice warning, from the SS Mesaba, warning of a “great number” of large icebergs and field ice just 15 miles ahead of the Titanic. Because the message was not prefixed with MSG – the signifier that the communique was intended for the captain – Phillips treated it as non-urgent, failed to pass the message on, and returned to the busy task of sending passengers’ personal telegrams.

At 11.39pm The iceberg lies just 1,000 yards ahead, but the moonless conditions mean the lookouts cannot see it. 30 seconds later and Frederick Fleet spots the iceberg, calling the bridge to proclaim, “Iceberg, right ahead!”, but it is too late to avoid a collision. At 11.40pm Titanic hits the iceberg, hitting the starboard bow. Many passengers and crew sleep through the collision whilst many others – including lookout man Fleet – assume the ship has survived a glancing blow and is undamaged.

#titanic 1997

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April 14th, 1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. while crossing the North Atlantic Ocean.

#titanic 1997

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It is the shore that wants to know; it is the sea that must answer.

The New York Evening Mail

#rms titanic #quote #newspaper #:(

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I believe you may get your headlines, Mr. Ismay.        ↳ Titanic dir. James Cameron (1997)

#titanic 1997

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On this day, 112 years ago:

RMS Titanic goes down, taking the lives of 1,496 people. The world is forever changed.

#rms titanic #titanic honor and glory

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"C.Q.D. Help! Help! We are sinking." The RMS Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City 14th-15th April 1912

At 11:40 pm on 14 April, lookout Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. First Officer William Murdoch ordered the ship to be steered around the obstacle and the engines to be reversed, but it was too late; the starboard side of Titanic struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline.

The hull was not punctured by the iceberg, but rather dented such that the hull's seams buckled and separated, allowing water to rush in. Five of the ship's watertight compartments were breached. It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as she could not survive more than four compartments being flooded.

Titanic began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment as her angle in the water became steeper. Between 2:10 and 2:15 a.m., a little over two and a half hours after Titanic struck the iceberg, her rate of sinking suddenly increased as the boat deck dipped underwater, and the sea poured in through open hatches and grates. As her unsupported stern rose out of the water, exposing the propellers, the ship broke in two main pieces between the second and third funnels, due to the immense forces on the keel. With the bow underwater, and air trapped in the stern, the stern remained afloat and buoyant for a few minutes longer, rising to a nearly vertical angle with hundreds of people still clinging to it, before foundering at 2:20 am.

#titanic 1997 #😞

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Titanic fitting out in Belfast.

I used to attend auctions of Titanic and shipping memorabilia locally and at one auction house they were selling off boxes of research material that was collected for James Cameron's Titanic movie. Included in one lot was a binder packed full of historic photos of the ship, most with the photographer's names or companies printed on the back, some of them were blown up prints of small issue postcards, which is what I think this one is.

#rms titanic #woooow

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RMS Titanic, photographed by Francis Browne x

#rms titanic #francis browne #*sigh*