3.1 The Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast. The gantry used for the construction of the Titanic is in the background.
3.2 A White Star Line advertisement for “Triple Screw RMS Olympic and Titanic, 45,000 tons each. The Largest Steamers in the World.”
3.3 The Titanic leaving Belfast.
Lord Pirrie and J. Bruce Ismay inspecting the Titanic before her launching on May 31, 1911.
The boat deck of the Titanic.
3.4 The Titanic’s reading and writing room.
3.5 A corner of the Titanic’s gymnasium.
3.6 Captain E. J. Smith.
3.7 Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller.
3.8 A section through the Titanic from the Illustrated London News, April 1912.
The sinking: a contemporary artist’s impression from the Sphere, April 27, 1912.
3.9 The Titanic’s last message: C Q D and S O S were distress calls; MGY was the Titanic’s call sign.
3.10 Colonel and Mrs. J. J. Astor.
3.11 Survivors from the Titanic approaching the Carpathia.
6.1 J. Bruce Ismay, hand to moustache, giving evidence to the Senate inquiry in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York.
Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the U.S. Senate inquiry.
6.2 Lady Duff Gordon.
6.3 Captain Lord.
6.4 Guglielmo Marconi (right) with Godfrey Isaacs.
6.5 Harold Bride being carried off the Carpathia in New York.
6.6 All these Southampton children lost a father, brother, uncle, or cousin on the Titanic.
6.7 J. Bruce Ismay giving evidence to the British inquiry.
Outside the White Star offices in Southampton; drawn for the Sphere by H. M. Paget.
Artist’s impression of Quartermaster Hitchins giving evidence to the British inquiry.
6.8 Lord Mersey (right) and his son, the Hon. Clive Bigham, arriving at the British inquiry.
6.9 Embalming a corpse aboard the Mackay-Bennett.
6.10 Undertakers and coffins on the jetty in Halifax, Nova Scotia, awaiting bodies picked up by the Mackay-Bennett.
6.11 Dr. Robert Ballard.
6.12 Members of the Franco-American team that found the Titanic. Standing in front of Argo (from left to right): Jean-Louis Michel; Lieutenant George Rey, U.S. Navy; Jean Jarry; Dr. Robert Ballard; and Bernard Pillaud.
6.13 The research vessel Knorr returning to Woods Hole in September 1985.
6.14 Two cranes, still locked into position on the deck of the Titanic on the seabed.
6.15 Bottles of wine, including French Bordeaux, scattered over the ocean floor around the wreck. A photograph taken by the Woods Hole expedition of 1985.