These extraordinary images were taken before the Titanic headed out on its maiden voyage and soon after the passenger liner struck an iceberg on 15 April, 1912, killing 1,490 people.
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The Titanic leaving Belfast for Southampton on 2 April 1912. It was the Hampshire city which provided most of the crew for the passenger liner
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The Titanic leaving Southampton for Ireland before heading out to the Atlantic. The iceberg it struck was 600 miles off Newfoundland, an island off the east coast of Canada.
Captain
Captain Edward John Smith, the most senior of the White Star Line's captains, commanded Titanic and her sister ship Olympic. The captain, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, died on the night of the sinking. Several witnesses reported that after the ship sank, he swam to a lifeboat with a baby in his arms, gave the baby to ship's cook John Maynard, and then swam away.
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Capt Smith with a dog on the deck of the ship. Three-quarters of the liner's crew came from Southampton, many toiling as stokers in the ship's engine rooms or as stewards tending to the needs of passengers.
Remembering the Dogs of the RMS Titanic
Dogs take in the sea air on deck. Of the nine dogs on board the Titanic, the two that were reportedly rescued were a Pomeranian and a Pekinese.
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Shipshape and ready for the passengers. Deck chairs lined up on the 'great promenade' of the ill-fated liner.
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The smoker's lounge on the Titanic where passengers could retire for port and cigars.
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The dining room of the ill-fated liner
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Photographed from the S.S. Carpathia - which helped rescue many of the survivors - this is believed to be the iceberg which the Titanic struck.
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A boatload of survivors pulls alongside the Carpathia.
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Huddled aboard a lifeboat, these passengers are lifted aboard the Carpathia.
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Wrapped in shawls and blankets survivors sit on the deck of the Carpathia.
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A crowd awaits to get a glimpse of the survivors. The photo was taken in New York on 18 April - three days after the ship sank.
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Survivors gather aboard the deck of the rescue ship Carpathia to make sense of the tragedy in the North Atlantic.
Survivors
A photo from the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver shows a life boat which rescued Molly Brown. She was a philanthropist who demanded the lifeboat crew continue to look for survivors. Picture: AP
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A stunned crowd gathers in front of the The New York Sun's building on Broadway, New York City, to read the bulletin board declaring that the Titanic had sunk.
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The front page of the New York Times breaking the news that the liner had sunk.
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