Titanic Wreck Bow Image: Public Domain (NOAA:http://www.gc.noaa.gov/images/gcil/ATT00561.jpg)
A full 3D scan of Titanic will result in the ability to explore Titanic without visiting the wreck itself according to a report at Earth.com. The project by Magellan and Atlantic productions has collected 715,000 deep-sea images of the wreck in striking clarity. The scan will allow researchers to really look at Titanic in a whole different way. Using all the data about Titanic from blueprints and other things, the 3D replica can be used to watch exactly what happened as the ship collided with the iceberg and see in detail about its sinking.
Quite remarkable technology. It will allow people who attend exhibitions to experience Titanic in a whole new way.
The sinking of the Greek passenger steamer Himara near South Evia on January 19, 1947, claimed at least 383 lives and has gone down in history as the “Greek Titanic.” Previously named Hertha, the vessel was handed over to Greece from Germany following WWII as part of war reparations.
Cleveland’s Great Lakes Science Center will offer a new way for guests to immerse themselves in one of history’s most iconic disasters with “TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition.” The exhibition, opening May 21, features over 200 artifacts recovered from the site of the shipwreck, life-size reconstructions of rooms on the Ship of Dreams and a virtual reality experience billed as “the most detailed and complete VR tour of Titanic ever created, including areas of the Ship that weren’t previously visible to the public.”
A major Titanic exhibition is set to come to Liverpool in 2026. Titanic in Focus: White Star Line Hotel, will run from January 8 to March 10 and is set to be held in the former White Star Line headquarters, which is now the White Star Line Hotel. The White Star Line headquarters is the building where the liner was planned, managed, and intimately connected to the city’s maritime history.
On top of injuries from the wreck, the frigid temperature of the northern Atlantic Ocean resulted in many losing their lives to hypothermia. According to the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, the water was 28°F—just below freezing, but kept liquid by the high concentrations of sea salt. To illustrate this fact, the Titanic Museum installed an exhibit that allows visitors to put their hands inside a container with 28ºF water. Multiple videos capture visitors trying their best, but giving up just a few seconds later. Those who held a little longer reported feeling a burning sensation on their hands.
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Harold Bride, the surviving Titanic Marconi telegraph operator, will have his World War I medals (and other memorabilia) auctioned off on November 19 by Morton & Eden in London. He was awarded both the British War and Victory medals for his service. After serving in WWI, he married Lucy Downie and moved to Scone. Later the couple moved to Glasgow where he worked at the Provan Hall Museum as caretaker and manager. He passed away in 1956.
The medals and other items are expected to fetch up to £10,000 ($13,136 USD).
Harold Bride was awarded the British War and Victory medals for his service in World War I. Image is screenshot from Morton & Dean auction catalogue for November 19, 2025.
Bathtub in Capt. Smith’s bathroom. Rusticles are observed growing over most of the pipes and fixtures in the room. June 2004 Lori Johnston, RMS Titanic Expedition 2003, NOAA-OE. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
RMS Titanic Inc. (RMST) and the Michigan nonprofit Center for Maritime & Underwater Resource Management (CMURM) are bringing together world-renowned experts to launch a new research project. Based on 40 years of expedition documentation and incorporating cutting-edge analyses, the project brings enhanced understanding of Titanic’s wrecksite and initiates a new era in stewardship. The Titanic Mapping Project, begun in 2006, aims to create the most complete picture ever of the debris field and wrecksite by analyzing clues about how the Ship separated and spilled her contents onto the ocean floor.
Is there much more to learn? I get they want to create better and upgraded maps of the debris field. And they want to diagram where artifacts came from aboard Titanic. But studying how the force of the water scattered its contents? Not sure that is going to yield much. We know that when the ship split in two, a lot of things went tumbling down to the sea floor. We know the stern had implosions as it went down. While I think some interesting technical data will be collected, I bet it will not change much about what we already know.
Photograph of iceberg taken by chief steward of Prinz Adalbert on morning of 15 April 1912 near where Titanic sank. At the time he had not learned of the Titanic disaster. Smears of red paint along the base caught his attention. The photo and accompanying statement were sent to Titanic’s lawyers, which hung in their boardroom until the firm dissolved in 2002. Public Domain
But his followers were really taken by surprise when he explained how he found out the hard way, over lunch with a room full of fellow passengers, that it’s really not cool to mention… the Titanic. “I said our ship was only about 100 feet longer than the Titanic,” he recalled. “Everyone just stopped. Like — mid-bite. Dead silence.” It turns out, Titanic is basically the Voldemort of the cruise world, a cursed word, spoken only by newbies who didn’t read the unwritten rules.
At least it did not get the fellow thrown overboard! I have heard of this rule before, but this is the first one to actually confirm it. It is the same logic airlines use to not show air disaster movies in-flight. I suppose you probably don’t want to mention the iceberg either.
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Nikos Papanikolaou, “Britannic: Artefacts Recovered From Titanic’s Sunk Sister Ship,” last modified September 16, 2025, accessed September 17, 2025, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4wq2we4jxo.
HMHS Britannic seen during World War I. Image:public domain
An 11-member team of professional deep-sea divers with closed-circuit equipment conducted the recovery, organised by British historian Simon Mills, founder of the Britannic Foundation. Among items retrieved and lifted with air bags were the ship’s lookout bell, a portside navigation lamp, binoculars, ceramic tiles from Turkish baths, and equipment from first- and second-class cabins.
Colorised photo of Ned Parfett, best known as the “Titanic paperboy”, holding a large newspaper about the sinking, standing outside the White Star Line offices at Oceanic House on Cockspur Street near Trafalgar Square in London SW1, April 16, 1912. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Unlike Southampton, which lost entire families of crew members, Bournemouth’s connection to the disaster was through a number of notable individuals. The stories of these passengers and crew members became the face of the tragedy for the town.
Survivors
Frank Winnold Prentice, Assistant Storekeeper on Titanic. Moved to Bournemouth and resided there until death in 1982.
Eleanor Shuman
Frederick William Blennerhasset
Frank Alfred Godwin
Perished
Reverend John Harper. Minister of Richmond Hill Baptist Church. Seen assisting and praying on Titanic.
Edgar Samuel Andrew
Alfonzo Meo
The Titanic error, one of Coulter’s personal favourites to tell, always elicits a horrified reaction from the audience, making for a poignant moment amid the usual laughs. As explained by Coulter: “When the Titanic sank, there was another ship eight miles from that ship, called The Californian. Despite everything the Titanic did, they radioed, they Morse-lighted, they sent a rowboat out to the mystery ship – it was eight miles away – that ship did nothing to save the Titanic because the captain was asleep.
Lord, Walter, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, New York, 1955. Multiple revisions and reprints, notably Illustrated editions (1976,1977,1978 etc.)
Lord, Walter, THE NIGHT LIVES ON, Willian Morrow and Company, New York, New York, 1986 (First Edition)
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Screenshot of photo at Teeside Live “Charming North East hotel with dining room full of Titanic fixtures” 28 June 2025
The White Swan Hotel in Alnwick, Northumberland, has a stunning dining room that’s home to furniture from the first class lounge of the ill-fated Titanic’s sister ship, the RMS Olympic. The White Swan has recently been spotlighted by the explorative website Atlas Obscura, known for uncovering hidden gems perfect for dining experiences. In its review of the Olympic Suite, the site stated: “This dining room is widely believed to be so similar to the Titanic’s that it has been used in films to represent the famous ship. In fact, when now-retired U.S. Navy officer Robert Ballard found fittings around the Titanic wreck, he used the lounge at the White Swan as a reference.
Including the Snyders, there were 35 passengers aboard the Titanic “known to be journeying — or in some way connected — to Minnesota,” historian Christopher Welter wrote in a 2007 Minnesota History article. They came from a wide range of backgrounds, and included immigrants from Sweden, Finland and Norway who were traveling in steerage to join family or find work in Minnesota. Of all the first-, second- and third-class passengers with Minnesota ties, 16 survived, Welter wrote.
Coe Hall seen from the side. GK tramrunner229 via Wikimedia Commons
In the village of Upper Brookville on Long Island, New York, you can step back 100 years — all you need to do is enter the Planting Fields Arboretum, a 409-acre state park that houses an expansive mansion, multiple greenhouses, gardens, and a tea house straight out of a fairy tale. The mansion, Coe Hall, was built by William Robertson Coe, an executive who succeeded in the insurance and railroad businesses, and his wife, Mai Rogers, an heiress to a fortune built on Standard Oil money. In fact, Coe was the president of the company that brokered the insurance for the hull of what was known as an unsinkable ship: the Titanic. He was even booked on the return voyage of the Titanic from New York City to England, per the Long Island Press.
A game called Titanic Escape Simulator has been making waves from the moment screenshots of it began to spread online. However, the dev has pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes on this one: None of the screenshots on the store page for this game are real. They’re all AI. It has an official store page and a pending release window of 2026, but every single screenshot for the game is AI generated and almost no one has noticed. There are posts with hundreds of thousands of likes about this game that have people believing the screenshots they’re looking at are in-game footage and not AI.
Herbert Haddock (first captain of RMS Titanic), circa 1930-1940 Source Genemeet via Wikimedia Commons Original photo owned by family and used here for informational purposes.
Emma Stevens and Vicky Smith, who call themselves the Graveside Sisters, started cleaning graves in Hampshire cemeteries during lockdown. The pair, who came up with the idea during a walk through a cemetery, now run a fully-fledged grave restoration business. At the request of the British Titanic Society, they recently cleaned the grave of Captain Herbert Haddock, who died in Southampton on 4 October 1946. The society said it tried to contact his family ahead of commissioning the sisters but believes there are no surviving relatives. Captain Herbert sailed the Titanic from Belfast to Southampton from March 25 to 31 in 1912.
Orlando unveiled one of the rarest artifacts recovered from the ship’s wrecksite, the Black Glass Necklace, marking its first-ever public debut since 1912. In addition to revealing the Black Glass Necklace, Tomasina Ray, President and Director of Collections of RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMST), and conservators at EverGreene led a live conservation demonstration of the two-ton section of the ship’s hull, Little Piece.
The newly conserved necklace was found and recovered in individual pieces and small fragments during RMST’s 2000 expedition. Upon inspection, this artifact revealed itself slowly through careful excavation from a recovered concretion: a hard, solid mass formed from several objects being physically and chemically fused due to the environmental conditions and immense pressure found at the wrecksite. Featuring black glass heart-shaped and octagonal beads woven in an intricate pattern, this necklace provides insight into the wrecksite’s environment and the ocean’s effects on material
Taking place from July 31 to August 24 at the Exchange Hall in Manchester Central, the Titanic Exhibition traces the liner’s short history from its construction at Harland & Wolff in Belfast to its unexpected sinking on its maiden voyage and eventual discovery at the bottom of the Atlantic. Both captains of the ships closest to the tragedy in April 1912 were Boltonians, with the skipper of the RMS Carpathia, Arthur Rostron, ordering his vessel to steam through the North Atlantic ice field towards the stricken boat.
Nearly two years after the catastrophic implosion of the Titan submersible claimed five lives during a descent to the Titanic wreck, the incident continues to shake the deep-sea exploration industry. The June 18, 2023, tragedy has sparked an international push for stricter regulation and oversight of commercial underwater expeditions. Investigators confirmed that Titan’s pressure vessel was made of carbon fibre, a material that experts say is vulnerable to stress degradation at extreme ocean depths. Industry-standard submersibles typically use titanium or steel to withstand intense pressure. Its observation window, certified only for 1,300 metres, fell far short of the Titanic site’s depth. Titan also lacked approval from any recognized maritime safety organization.
Their final act of unity was captured in James Cameron’s cinematic masterpiece, Titanic, showing an elderly couple embracing as the ship went down. In a remarkable twist of fate, Wendy Rush, the wife of the late Titan inventor Stockton Rush, is revealed to be the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus
A gold pocket watch connects a Lake Michigan beach town to an English port town. It’s a homecoming 165 years in the making, weaving invisible strings between a British parliament member, a deadly shipwreck, treasure hunters and Michigan’s foremost expert on the ‘Titanic of the Great Lakes.’ The pocket watch was preserved underwater in the wreckage of the Great Lakes deadliest shipwreck for decades. This spring, it made its way home to England, hand delivered by a Michigan historian who has been studying the shipwreck for more than 30 years.
On June 16, 2023, OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush and four other passengers left the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, for the thrill of a lifetime—a submersible dive to the sunken Titanic. Tragically, none of them returned to shore. “They knew what they were getting into,” OceanGate cofounder Guillermo Söhnlein said. “And yeah, and it’s just, it’s a sad thing that they died doing something that they were passionate about.”
On display for now at the Pigeon Forge museum are a pocket watch recovered with Isidor Straus’ body and a letter written by his wife, Ida Straus, while aboard the RMS Titanic. Isidor was a co-owner of Macy’s department store. Ida sacrificed a seat on a lifeboat to remain on the ship with her husband until it sank. Only Isidor’s body was recovered. “It’s better than the Jack and Rose (story from the 1997 movie ‘Titanic’),” museum curator Paul Burns told Knox News.
Lord, Walter, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, New York, 1955. Multiple revisions and reprints, notably Illustrated editions (1976,1977,1978 etc.)
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Today is Memorial Day, a day set aside to remember those who gave all to serve this country. At national cemeteries and smaller ones around the country, flags and flowers have been placed to remember them. We also remind ourselves that freedom is not easily granted, often requires great sacrifice. President Lincoln made note of this in his famous 1863 Gettysburg Address:
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
God of power and mercy,
you destroy war and put down earthly pride.
Banish violence from our midst and wipe away our tears,
that we may all deserve to be called your sons
and daughters.
Keep in your mercy those men and women
who have died in the cause of freedom
and bring them safely
into your kingdom of justice and peace.
We ask this though Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
(Memorial Day Prayer, USCCB)
Gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery decorated by U.S. flags on Memorial Day weekend. Photo:Public domainArlington National Cemetery, Memorial Day, 1924 Photo: U.S. Library of Congress, digital id npcc 11495
On Friday the U.S. government filed to dismiss its legal challenge with the federal court overseeing the Titanic salvage. RMS Titanic, Inc has stated it has no expeditions planned at this time that would violate federal law governing the wreck. This ends a legal battle that began several years ago when the company wanted to retrieve the Marconi radio from inside the wreck.
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition in Boston has extended its stay in Boston through the Memorial Day weekend due to popular demand. The exhibition opened in October 2024 at The Saunders Castle at Park Plaza has reportedly seen its weekend tickets sell out since it opened.
Tickets start at $39.50 per adult and $27.50 for children ages 4 to 12. For dates , times, and to purchase tickets, go to their website.
Harland & Wolff David and Goliath crane in Belfast, 2006 Plastic Jesus (Dave) via Wikimedia Commons
It is being reported that a deal to purchase Titanic shipbuilder Harland & Wolff has gotten approval by the British cabinet. Spanish government owned Navantia will acquire the company and its four UK shipyards keeping about 1,000 British jobs in the process. While the final details have yet to be worked out, a general outline has been agreed to. Also, a UK Royal Navy contract for three Fleet Solid Support vessels will be renegotiated.
A deal could be reached later this week and announced before Christmas.
Lay’s Auctioneers of Penzanze posted this statement to their website just a week before the Charlestown Shipwreck Museum Sale was due to start on November 6. “We are pleased to announce that an institutional home has been found for many of the most important shipwreck artefacts from Charlestown’s incredible collection. Before this shock news, over 7,000 items from the Shipwreck Treasure Museum had been due to sell in 1,260 lots. Now 500 have been removed. A piece of coal from the legendary liner is still on sale with a £400 – £600 estimate. And those fascinated by the disaster-struck vessel can bid for models expected to realise, respectively, up to £800 and as much as £1,200 at sale. The lots listed still constitute a major maritime sale. They include guns, diving suits, uniforms and many ship parts.
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Harland & Wolff David and Goliath crane in Belfast, 2006 Plastic Jesus (Dave) via Wikimedia Commons
Titanic shipbuilder Harland & Wolff owed more than £160m when it collapsed into administration last month, it has been revealed. Teneo was appointed to oversee the process at the 162-year-old holding company in September while its subsidiary firms, including its prized Belfast shipyard, will continue to trade under the control of the directors. “Whilst the group delivered revenue growth, it was slower than required and a recent large contract win was not expected to become profitable in the near term. “As a result, during 2024 the group had an increasing short-term liquidity requirement alongside a significant level of creditor arrears.”
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“Certificate of Origin: This coal was recovered from the wreck of R.M.S. Titanic during the 1994 Titanic Research and Recovery Expedition. Object No. 94/0036. Authenticated by the signature of President, RMS Titanic, Inc.; Captain, IFREMER.” Exhibited at the National Shipwreck Museum in Charlestown, Cornwall, South West England. [This is the coal up for auction.] Image: Ben Sutherland via Wikimedia Commons. Posted originally on Flickr.
It’s unlikely that much else from the Titanic’s wreckage will ever return to the surface, although a number of artifacts have been salvaged since the famous ocean liner’s rediscovery in 1985. Now, one of those pieces of history is headed to auction—a hunk of coal originally intended as fuel for the 882-foot-long vessel’s boilers. The massive archeological trove previously resided at the UK’s Shipwreck Treasure Museum near St. Austell, Cornwall. Although its owners attempted to find a buyer for the institution earlier this year, no one appears ready to shell out the listing’s roughly $2.5 million price tag. Speaking with The Guardian on October 27th, David Lay of Lay’s Auctioneers helped contextualize the significance of his company’s impending event lots, including a length of rope recovered from King Henry VIII’s Tudor flagship, the Mary Rose.
The second watch was gifted to Giddings by a Rolex employee and prominent diver called T. Walker Lloyd. The pair had become friends after Giddings had begun documenting the research of the marine biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle. Giddings’s photography was used by Rolex to launch its working relationship with Dr. Earle. (Giddings provided it for free.) Now both of Giddings’ Submariners are up for auction at Sotheby’s. The December sale is being overseen by Geoff Hess. The steel ref. 1680 has an estimate of $20,000-$40,000. His yellow gold ref. 1680/8 has an estimate of $30,000-$60,000. The sale takes place on 6 December in New York.
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Colorised photo of Ned Parfett, best known as the “Titanic paperboy”, holding a large newspaper about the sinking, standing outside the White Star Line offices at Oceanic House on Cockspur Street near Trafalgar Square in London SW1, April 16, 1912. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Among the passengers was Irene Colvin Corbett, a remarkable woman distinguished as the only known member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints aboard the ill-fated Titanic. At 30 years old, the Utah native was returning to Provo after spending six months in London, training at the General Lying-In Hospital to become a midwife. Despite traveling in second class — which should have nearly guaranteed her a spot in a lifeboat — Corbett was not among the more than 700 survivors. The exact circumstances of her final moments remain unknown, and her body was never recovered.
A new deep-sea submersible capable of taking three people deeper than the Titanic is undergoing its first “wet test” this month. Initially reported to be taking place in early 2024, the Matsya-6000’s testing will finally begin after its design was reviewed in the wake of the Titan submersible disaster last June. It is hoped that the submersible, which is part-funded by the Indian government, will herald a new era for ocean exploration and research. Dr M Ravichandran of India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) told India Today that the test is expected to take place in the late October.
An acclaimed Titanic exhibition is coming to Wales for the first time ever. Titanic Exhibition Wales will be staged at the ICC in Newport from 19th February to 2nd March 2025. The organisers of the exhibition White Star Heritage say they aim to bring the Titanic to life through a collection of artefacts, interactive experiences and informative displays.
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RMS Titanic beginning sea trials, April 2, 1912. Public Domain (National Archives and Records Administration,ARC Identifier#306 RG 306)
Why bother taking images of an identical ship for publicity purposes, when you can simply use older ones taken of RMS Olympic? Nobody would tell the difference. Someone within the White Star Line office clearly earned brownie points that day. Money saved; job done. Yet, that penny-pinching has robbed us of the genuine article. There’s a distinct lack of footage to satisfy the public’s hunger. As such, budding aficionados frequently confuse the two sister ships in photographs and historical accounts, leading to a slew of misinformation and confusion. In most books, documentaries and videos, images of RMS Olympic are often substituted for RMS Titanic, so – how can you tell the difference between the two sister ships? First, it’s time to consult Father Browne.
Collapsible lifeboat D photographed by passenger on Carpathia on the morning of 15 April 1912. Public Domain(Wikipedia)
It’s now more than a century since the ocean liner – which had been hailed as “practically unsinkable” by its builders – hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic. However, the ill-fated ship continues to fascinate the public today. However, the tragic story of one of its lifeboats – Collapsible A – has been all but forgotten. The raft saved the lives of more than a dozen passengers – but more than that died, during a desperate scramble for survival.
Multiple prominent world figures were set to sail on the ship, but didn’t quite make it on to the maiden voyage. After all, in the months leading up to the Titanic’s departing Southampton, UK for New York, the ship was extremely well publicized with the who’s who of the early 1900s desperate to nab tickets.
Lord, Walter, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, New York, 1955. Multiple revisions and reprints, notably Illustrated editions (1976,1977,1978 etc.)
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On Friday the U.S. government filed to dismiss its legal challenge with the federal court overseeing the Titanic salvage. RMS Titanic, Inc has stated it has no expeditions planned at this time that would violate federal law governing the wreck. This ends a legal battle that began several years ago when the company wanted to retrieve the Marconi radio from inside the wreck.
