Aboard the Titanic, six-year-old Robert Douglas Spedden, plays with a spinning top while his father, Frederic, looks on.
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News of the Titanic disaster spreads in London on the day the ship went down, April 15, 1912.
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Captain of the RMS Titanic, Commander Edward J. Smith, who went down with the ship when it sank on April 15th, 1912.
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The White Star luxury liners Titanic (left) and Olympic under construction at the Harland & Wolff shipyard, Belfast.
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How the Moon Sank the Titanic. A cosmic convergence may have led to the tragedy.
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First Class passenger list from RMS Titanic.
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The last wireless message sent by Titanic's radio operator, Jack Phillips, advising that the ship is "sinking fast" and passengers are being put into lifeboats.
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The First Class Lounge on the RMS Titanic, photographed on January 4, 1912.
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Passengers aboard the Carpathia help survivors of the Titanic after plucking more than 700 out of lifeboats, April 1912.
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A crowd awaits the return of survivors of the Titanic disaster, Southampton, England, April 29, 1912.
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An undated artist's rendering of the proposed cruise ship Titanic II.
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A Titanic lifeboat approaches the rescue ship Carpathia, April 15, 1912. The Carpathia, which took on more than 700 survivors of the disaster, was herself sunk in 1918, during the first World War, by a German U-boat.
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A picture of the Titanic, which was launched in Belfast on May 31, 1911
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An illustration of the "Titanic" as it sank in the Atlantic Ocean
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The liner "Titanic" on her ill-fated.
An artist's sketch of the proposed Titanic Signature Project, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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