So much incredible and tragical history .

1.This is the last photograph ever taken of the Titanic:

2.This was the first class menu aboard the Titanic the day it sank:

3.And this was the third class menu the day the Titanic sank:

4.This is what the great promenade deck of the Titanic looked like in 1912:

5.And here’s what the deck looks like today:

6.This is Charlotte and Marjorie Collyer, a mother and daughter who survived the wreck of the Titanic in 1912:

7.This is the violin Wallace Hartley, bandleader on theTitanic, played as the ship sank:

8.And these are the members of the band that played on the Titanic as the ship was sinking:

9.This is what the first class lounge on the Titanic looked like:

10.And this is what the third-class dining room of the Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, looked like:

11.And this, in all its 1912 glory, is what a first-class suite looked like on the ship:

12.The Titanic had a full gym on board, complete with a rowing machine. This is what it looked like:

13.While there are no pictures of the Titanic’s grand staircase from before it sank, this is what the grand staircase on the Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, looked like:

14.And this is what the grand staircase of the Titanic looked like as recent as 2001:

15.Here they are together, for easy comparison:

16.Upon the discovery of the wreck in 1985, an array of pristinely lined-up dishes were found neatly sitting together on the ocean floor.

17.Some of the dishes were actually recovered and put on display:

18.Some money was also recovered from the wreck:

19.Even part of the hull of the Titanic was salvaged from the wreckage in 1998. It’s currently on display in Las Vegas:

20.Other remnants of the Titanic still remain on the ocean floor - including shoes that belonged to its victims:

21.This is what one of the deck chairs aboard the Titanic looked like. Collector Chris Lowe paid $30,000 for it:

22.This unassuming white dot is the iceberg that sunk the Titanic:

23.Here’s a closer look:

24.This right here is what one of theTitanic’s lifeboats looked like before the passengers were rescued:

25.And this is a picture of a lifeboat filled with Titanic survivors being rescued and brought aboard the Carpathia following the sinking of the ship:

26.Here’s a closer look at some more survivors in a lifeboat:

27.And here’s another shot of some lifeboats back in New York:

28.The propellers on the back of the Titanic were absolutely gigantic:

29.Here’s what one of those propellers looks like today:

30.This is what the Titanic looked like while it was under construction:

31.And this is what one of the Titanic’s smokestacks looked like before being put on the ship. Note the tiny little man in the corner:

32.This is how big the Titanic is compared to a modern day cruise ship:

33.This is an example of what one of the life vests worn by a Titanic survivor looked like:

34.This is a gold watch that belonged to a passenger on the Titanic. It stopped as the ship sank:

35.And, finally this is an unopened bottle of champagne recovered from the wreck site:

The Titanic

menu with lunch, buffet, grill, and cheese options

menu featuring a simple breakfast, dinner, tea and supper

covered deck with folded chairs along the wall

submerged in water

Charlotte and Majorie Collyer

A very old violin close up with only 2 strings

portraits of the 7 men in a newspaper honoring them

Lounge on the Titanic

The Olympic third-class saloon

A modest room with a full-size bed, rug, and three not very comfy-looking chairs and a small table

Black-and-white photo of a man in a rowing machine in a large room with a map of the world on the wall

dome over the ornate staircase

submerged in water surrounded by wreckage

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dishes lined up on the floor

the dishes on display

american dollar bill

large hull in a museum

arrow pointing to a shoe on the floor

chris posing with a wooden lounge chair

iceburg in the distance

Black-and-white photo of an iceberg

A lifeboat with about 20–25 people wearing life jackets in it

A small lifeboat on the side of a huge ship

people in life vests on a boat

line of lifeboats

men standing under the huge propellers

two blades peaking out of the ocean floor

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the titanic is a lot smaller

it looks like a stuffed sack with two ties to wrap around the chest

A pocket watch

the bottle in a museum