Items raised from the bottom of the Titanic. Real stories of passengers of "Titanic" (51 photos)

14.07.2021

The crash of the passenger liner "Titanic", during which 1,517 of the 2,229 passengers and crew members died (official figures vary slightly), was one of the largest maritime disasters in peacetime. 712 surviving passengers of the Titanic were picked up by the rescue ship Karpatia.

Only a few disasters caused such a resonance and had such a strong impact on public consciousness. The disaster changed attitudes towards social injustice, influenced the rules for passenger traffic in the Atlantic Ocean, increased the requirements for having enough lifeboats on board passenger ships and led to the creation of the International Ice Service.

Today marks the 106th anniversary of the disaster of the Titanic, which became one of the most famous ships in history. Many books and films, exhibitions and memorials are devoted to the subject of the sinking of the Titanic.

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The British passenger liner Titanic departs Southampton, England on its maiden and final voyage on April 10, 1912. Before heading to New York, the Titanic entered Cherbourg (France) and Queenstown (Ireland). Four days later, on April 14, 1912, at 23:40 local time, the liner collided with an iceberg 603 kilometers south of Newfoundland.

At 2:20 am, the Titanic broke in two and sank. At that time, there were about a thousand people on board. People who found themselves in the icy water soon died of hypothermia. (Frank O. Braynard Collection)

Passenger liner Titanic departs on its maiden and final voyage to New York from Queenstown, Ireland, 1912. The richest people of that time were on board: millionaires John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim and Isidore Strauss, as well as more than a thousand emigrants from Ireland, Scandinavia and other countries who were going to start a new life in America.

The catastrophe shocked the whole world. An investigation into the causes of the Titanic crash, which began a few days after the disaster, contributed to significant improvements in the safety of navigation. (United Press International)

Workers leave the Harland & Wolfe shipyard in Belfast, where the Titanic was built between 1909 and 1911. At the time of launch, the Titanic was the largest passenger liner in the world. In this 1911 image, the Titanic is in the background. (Photographic Archive / Harland & Wolff Collection / Cox)

Dining room on the Titanic, 1912. The liner was designed and built with the latest technology and was the epitome of luxury and comfort. It contained a gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-end restaurants and luxurious cabins. (The New York Times Photo Archives / American Press Association)

A room for second class passengers aboard the Titanic, 1912. More than 90% of second-class passengers were men who remained on board the sinking liner, as women and children were the first to board the lifeboats. (The New York Times Photo Archives / American Press Association)

The Titanic departs from Southampton, England on April 10, 1912. Some experts believe that the reason for the Titanic disaster was the poor quality of the hull rivets that were used in the construction of the liner. (Associated Press)

The captain of the Titanic, Edward John Smith, flew the largest liner of his time. The length of the Titanic was 269.1 meters, width - 28.19 meters, displacement - more than 52 thousand tons.

The height of the liner from the keel to the top of the chimneys was 53.3 meters, 10.5 of which were below the waterline. The Titanic was taller than most of the city's buildings at the time. (The New York Times Archives)

An undated shot of the Titanic's first mate, William McMaster Murdoch, who is revered as a hero in his homeland of Dolbitty, Scotland. However, in the Oscar-winning movie Titanic, Murdoch's character is portrayed as a coward and a murderer.

At a ceremony marking the 86th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, 20th Century Fox Executive Vice President Scott Neeson handed the Dolbitty school a $ 8,000 check to apologize to the officer's relatives. (Associated Press)

Presumably, the iceberg that the passenger liner "Titanic" collided with on April 14, 1912. The photo was taken from the cable-laying vessel Mackay Bennett, operated by Captain Descarteret.

The Mackay Bennett ship was one of the first to arrive at the Titanic disaster site. It was the only iceberg near the wreck of the ocean liner, according to Captain Descartereth. (United States Coast Guard)

Passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which sailed only partially filled. This photograph of lifeboats approaching the Carpathia was taken by Carpathia's passenger, Louis M. Ogden.

The photograph was presented at an exhibition of documents relating to the disaster of the "Titanic", which Walter Lord bequeathed to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. (National Maritime Museum / London)

The rescue ship Carpathia picked up 712 surviving passengers on the Titanic. Photo taken by Carpathia passenger Louis M. Ogden shows lifeboats approaching Carpathia.

This photograph was also featured in an exhibition of documents that Walter Lord bequeathed to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. (National Maritime Museum / London)

Although the Titanic had advanced security measures such as watertight compartments and remote-controlled watertight doors, the ship lacked lifeboats for all passengers.

The boats were only enough for 1,178 people - this is only a third of all passengers and crew. In this photo you see the rescue of passengers from the Titanic. (Paul Treacy / EPA / PA)

Reporters interview passengers of the sinking Titanic who disembarked from the rescue ship Carpathia, May 17, 1912. (American Press Association)

Seven-year-old Eva Hart with her father Benjamin and mother Esther, 1912. Eva and her mother escaped from the sinking Titanic, but her father was killed in the crash of a British liner on the night of April 15, 1912. (Associated Press)

People stand in the street, waiting for the arrival of the Carpathia ship. (The New York Times Photo Archives / Times Wide World)

A huge crowd of people gathered outside the office of the White Star Line Steamship Company on Broadway in New York to receive the latest news of the Titanic wreck on April 14, 1912. (Associated Press)

The New York Times newsroom during the sinking of the Titanic, April 15, 1912. (The New York Times Photo Archives)

People read news reports outside The Sun's New York office after the Titanic crash. (The New York Times Photo Archives)

Two letters sent from America to the Lloyds of London insurers in London mistakenly claimed that other ships, including the Virginia, were nearby and providing assistance during the Titanic disaster.

These lots will be auctioned off at Christie's in London in May 2012. (AFP / EPA / Press Association)

The surviving passengers of the Titanic Laura Francatelli and her employers Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon and Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon stand aboard the rescue ship Carpathia. Francatelli said she heard a terrible crash and then cries for help as her boat sailed away from the sinking ocean liner Titanic on that tragic night in 1912. (Associated Press / Henry Aldridge and Son / Ho)

Passenger liner "Titanic" shortly before departure on its maiden and last voyage, 1912. (New York Times Archives)

A photo released by Henry Aldridge & Son / Ho in Wiltshire, UK on April 18, 2008, shows an extremely rare artifact - a passenger ticket for the Titanic. (Henry Aldridge & Son / Ho)

The exhibit bequeathed to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, by Walter Lord, is a telegram to Marconi. Miss Edith Russell (journalist and Titanic survivor) wrote to Women’s Wear Daily: “Escaped on Carpathia, tell your mother.” Carpathia, April 18, 1912. (National Maritime Museum / London)

The dining menu of the restaurant aboard the Titanic, signed by the surviving passengers. Walter Lord bequeathed this document to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. (National Maritime Museum / London)

The nose of the sunken "Titanic", 1999. (P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology)

One of the propellers of the passenger liner "Titanic". The picture was taken during an expedition to the shipwreck site on September 12, 2008. Five thousand artifacts will be auctioned on April 11, 2012, almost 100 years after the Titanic disaster. (RMS Titanic, Inc., via Associated Press)

The starboard side of the bow of the Titanic. This image was released by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on August 28, 2010. (Premier Exhibitions, Inc.-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Part of the Titanic's side, chains and an additional anchor buoy. Dr. Robert Bollard, who found the wreckage of the Titanic almost 20 years ago, returned to the scene of the tragedy to look at the damage caused to the ship and its treasures by looters and seekers of easy enrichment. (Institute for Archaeological Oceanography & Institute for Exploration / University of Rhode Island Grad. School of Oceanography)

The huge propeller of the sunken Titanic lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Image is not dated. The first tourists who visited the shipwreck site in September 1998 saw the propeller and other parts of the famous liner. (Ralph White / Associated Press)

A 17-ton fragment of the Titanic passenger liner, which was lifted from the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the shipwreck, July 22, 2009. On April 11, 2012, this exhibit will be auctioned along with 5,000 other artifacts. (RMS Titanic, Inc., via Associated Press)

A gold Waltham American pocket watch - a personal item of Karl Asplund - against the backdrop of the "Titanic" painting by C. Jam Ashford. The watch was found on the body of Karl Asplund, who sank along with the Titanic. (Kirsty Wigglesworth Associated Press)

Money from the Titanic. The owner of one of the richest collections of items found on the Titanic put it up for auction in 2012, the year of the 100th anniversary of the famous ship's wreck. (Stanley Leary / Associated Press)

Photographs by Felix Asplund, Selma and Karl Asplund and Lillian Asplund in Devises, Wiltshire, England. These photos are part of Lillian Asplund's collection of items related to the Titanic.

Lillian was 5 years old in April 1912 when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on her first voyage. The girl escaped, but her father and three siblings were among the 1,514 people who died. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / Associated Press)

Artifacts from the Titanic wreck are on display at the TITANIC The Artifact Exhibit at the California Science Center: binoculars, a hairbrush, crockery and a cracked incandescent lamp. February 6, 2003. (Michel Boutefeu / Getty Images, Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times)

Spectacles found among the wreckage of the Titanic. The complete collection of artifacts found at the Titanic crash site will be auctioned in April 2012 - 100 years after the tragedy. (Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press)

Golden spoon from the Titanic. (Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press)

The chronometer from the Titanic's bridge is on display at the Science Museum in London. It is one of more than 200 items recovered from the ocean floor at the site where the Titanic sank.

Visitors to the exhibition in the museum can go through the entire history of the famous liner in chronological order - from the blueprints for its construction to the moment of its death after a collision with an iceberg. (Alastair Grant / Associated Press)

The Titanic's Velocity Meter and the Gimbal Lamp are some of the artifacts on display at a museum in New York. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Items from the sunken "Titanic" presented in the New York Museum. (Chang W. Lee / The New York Times)

A cup and pocket watch are among the many items found on the Titanic, as well as a button with a White Star Line flag and a small porthole. (Don Emmert / AFP / Getty Images, Brendan McDermid / Reuters, Michel Boutefeu / Getty Images-2)

These spoons from the Titanic are part of an exhibition at the South Norwalk Museum, Connecticut. (Douglas Healey / Associated Press) #

The gilded purse is one of the items from the Titanic. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

The April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine and its online version for iPad, where you can see new photos from the sunken liner, which still rests on the ocean floor at a depth of 3784 m.Few disasters have affected society as much, and for as long as the sinking of the Titanic. (National Geographic)

The Titanic's stern, with two propellers sticking out of the mud and sand, rests on the ocean floor 600 meters south of the ship's bow. (COPYRIGHT © 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC; Produced by AIVL, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

The starboard side of the ship. The first to sink to the bottom of the ocean was the nose of the Titanic, so that the front of it buried itself in the sand, forever closing the fatal wounds left by the iceberg. (COPYRIGHT © 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC; Produced by AIVL, WHOI)

Two Titanic engines are visible through a crack in the stern. These huge structures, covered with rust, once propelled the largest liner in the world at the time. (COPYRIGHT © 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC; Produced by AIVL, WHOI)

Passenger liner "Titanic", plunging into the ocean abyss, did not disappear without a trace and left behind many artifacts, valuable items, family relics that were on the ship at the time of the crash. Now all these things can be found in different parts of the world, at numerous exhibitions dedicated to the history of the largest steamer of its time, which sank a hundred years ago.

The wreckage of the ill-fated liner remained intact until the American marine archaeologist Robert Ballard and his French colleagues discovered them on September 1, 1985, 325 miles off the coast of the Canadian island of Newfoundland.

In just over 25 years, about 5.5 thousand artifacts have been raised from the ocean floor. The rights to them are owned by the American company Premier Exhibitions Inc, which organizes numerous tours called "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition".

So, in Singapore already, timed to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The largest in the country, the exhibition takes place at the ArtScience Museum, located in the Marina Bay Sands resort complex, and will end in April 2012.

The exhibition features more than 275 items raised from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean from a depth of 3,800 meters, where in 1912 the White Star Line ocean liner sank from Southampton to New York. Many artifacts are presented in Southeast Asia for the first time.

Among the most interesting exhibits are a bronze cherub that adorned the ship's main staircase, a chandelier hanging in one of the ship's restaurants, a silver lamp discovered in 1987, and a toothpaste container with a portrait of the young Queen Victoria. The exhibition also displays personal belongings of passengers on the Titanic, such as gold pocket watches, ties and suitcases.

Slightly smaller, but opened at the Natural History Museum of San Diego (California). Since February, visitors can see more than 200 artifacts raised from the site of the ship's wreck. The exhibition halls display perfume bottles and porcelain with the White Star Line logos. In addition, visitors can see the wreck of the ship, recreated cabins, inside which are items that belonged to the passengers of the Titanic.

According to museum director Michael Hager, "This exhibition combines the history of technology and the human drama that made the Titanic tragedy such a well-known event."

Another exhibition under the same name at the Junction Railway Station of the city presented new rare exhibits to visitors. In total, the exhibition features over 300 items. Among the most interesting are White Star Line branded tableware, as well as personal belongings of passengers, such as jewelry and glasses. The found items are placed in restored cabins of the first and third classes, identical to the real ones.

It is much more important that the items presented at the exhibition are complemented by the stories and fates of the passengers. So, some of the organizers of the exhibition are directly related to the history of the ship. Vice President of the Irish Museum and Cultural Center in Kansas City, who is actively involved in organizing the exhibition, Ed Fallis would not have been born if his great-aunt used the ticket and boarded the Titanic. Only recently did Follis learn that Nellie Finnegan was planning to sail third class on the fateful voyage.

The main exhibit of Marine (Massachusetts) is one of the world's largest models of the Titanic. The length of the model is about 8.5 meters.

In April 1912, along with the sunken Titanic, the unfortunate passengers of a giant ocean liner and a wide variety of cargoes went to the bottom. It is widely known, for example, that a Renault car, jewelry and books sank. In our review - 10 lesser known, but very interesting cargo sunk during the disaster, and associated incredible stories.

Fur clothes

On board the Titanic were three containers of fashion clothes from a rabbit fur produced by the British company Dicking & Jones. They were headed to New Jersey and were paid for by The Broadway Trust Company of Camden. This loss and disappearance of the courier David Steppe with several tens of thousands of dollars and securities were the main reasons for the bank's bankruptcy.

Opium

On board the Titanic there were four containers of opium... It was transported by an American millionaire, businessman and writer John Jacob Astor IV - the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, who made a fortune on furs and real estate. Astor himself did not make it to America either, he died in a ship wreck. It remains to be noted that the opium was smuggled, as the US Congress banned the substance seven years before the tragic flight. True, this did not prevent the Indians from using it for the preparation of all kinds of medicines and "invigorating" decoctions.

Chow chow dog

One of the passengers in the first class was a stockbroker from New York Harry Anderson, who was returning home with a dog of a rare breed at the time. chow-chow... Anderson managed to escape by boarding lifeboat # 3, and the Chow Chow drowned along with 8 other dogs that were sailing with their owners on the Titanic. It is known that the insurance agency paid compensation to the surviving businessman for the loss of a pet in the amount of $ 50.

Portrait of Garibaldi with his autograph

Second class passenger Emilio Ilario Giuseppe Portaluppi was returning from Italy to the United States. He managed to escape thanks to a fluke. Once in the cold water, he clung to the ice floe and drifted until he was picked up by a lifeboat. And his valuable cargo - portrait of the Italian national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi with his autograph - he drowned with the Titanic. Upon arrival in the United States, Portaluppi filed a claim with the insurance company for $ 3,000 and received this amount.

Lecture notes

A young second-class passenger, Sidney Clarence Stuart Collett was a theology student returning from England to his parents in Port Byron. Stuart Collett assisted the Reverend Mr. Carter in the second class cabin during the Sunday evening service on April 14, 1912, which was attended by about 100 passengers. It is known that after the ship collided with an iceberg, Collette helped the passengers to get into the boats. He himself was saved by him in boat No. 9. Subsequently, he was paid insurance in the amount of $ 50 for the loss handwritten college lecture notes in 2 years.

Irish Farmer's Bagpipe

Eugene Patrick Daly, a 29-year-old farmer from Ireland, was also aboard the Titanic. He was a third-class passenger traveling to New York from Queenstown. It is known that for the ticket he paid only 7 pounds 15 shillings and played for his comrades on the bagpipes "Lament for Erin". During the disaster, Daly jumped into the water without a life jacket, wearing a coat, and he managed to get to the overturned boat "B", from which he was picked up by the ship "Carpathia". For losing your bagpipes he received compensation in the amount of $ 50, and several decades later his musical instrument was found by divers at the site of the shipwreck. Patrick Daly said that on the road he always put on a coat for good luck, in which he escaped from the Titanic.

Marmalade machine

In 1912 in England there were so-called gummy machines that were used for peeling and slicing fruit. Second class passenger Edwina Trutt carried a similar device with her. Naturally, in the event of a disaster, there was no time to save the car. The lady later sued for damages in the amount of 8 shillings 5 pence.

Film box

The list of things carried aboard the Titanic included film box for The New York Motion Picture Company, one of the small film studios that were numerous on the East Coast before the entire film industry finally moved to Hollywood. Nobody will tell what was on the film, the film never appeared on the screens.

Suitcase with perfume

Among the first-class passengers aboard the Titanic was the head of the perfume company Sparks, White and Co. Ltd. Briton Adolf Saalfeld. His leather suitcase contained 65 bottles of various perfumes... The suitcase sank to the bottom during the crash, where it remained for 89 years. In 2001, he was raised to the surface. Some of the bottles surprisingly remained intact and even retained their aroma. Modern perfumers are trying to decipher the chemical composition of these long-lost fragrances.

Manuscript

There was a package in the Titanic post office containing manuscript Karain: A Remembrance by renowned author Joseph Conrad. Konrad sent his manuscript to collector John Quinn, but he never received it. This was the first version of Konrad's book, later published as Lord Jim.

What else was on board the Titanic

It is known that together with the Titanic they went to the bottom the same way
Some of the other interesting items that went to the bottom of the Atlantic with the Titanic include: 856 rolls of linoleum, 1 container of cretonne, 1 box of auto parts, 41 box of filter paper, 76 boxes of dragon blood (hard red tar), 1 barrel of earth, 1 a box with Edison gramophones and 2 barrels of mercury.

Continuing the theme - the creation of which determined the vectors of development of this type of ships.

On the night of September 1, 1985, an American-French expedition led by oceanologist Robert Ballard discovered the Titanic steam boiler at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Soon, the remains of the ship itself were discovered. This was the end of the long-term epic of the search for the sunken steamer, which was carried out by several independent researchers, but for a long time was unsuccessful due to the incorrect coordinates of the sinking of the ship, broadcast on the fatal night of 1912.The discovery of the remains of the Titanic opened a new page in its history: the answers to many controversial issues; a number of facts that were considered proven and incontrovertible turned out to be erroneous.

The first intentions to find and raise the Titanic appeared immediately after the disaster. The families of several millionaires wanted to find the bodies of their deceased relatives in order to properly bury them, and discussed the issue of raising the Titanic with one of the firms specializing in underwater rescue work. But at that time it was not technically possible to carry out such an operation. A plan was also discussed to drop dynamite charges onto the ocean floor so that some bodies would rise to the surface from the explosions, but these intentions were eventually abandoned.

Later, a whole series of crazy projects for the rise of the Titanic were developed. For example, it was proposed to fill the hull of the ship with ping-pong balls or attach helium cylinders to it, which would raise it to the surface. There were many other projects, mostly fantastic. In addition, before trying to raise the Titanic, you had to first find it, and this was not so simple.

One of the controversial issues in the history of the Titanic for a long time remained the coordinates broadcast along with the distress signal. They were identified by the fourth mate, Joseph Boxhall, based on the coordinates calculated a few hours before the collision, the speed and course of the vessel. There was no time to check them in detail in that situation, and Carpathia, who came to the rescue a few hours later, successfully went to the boats, but the first doubts about the correctness of the coordinates arose already during the investigation in 1912. At that time, the question remained open and When the first serious attempts to search for the Titanic began in the 80s, the researchers faced a problem: the Titanic was neither in the specified coordinates, nor near them. The situation was complicated by the local conditions of the disaster - after all, the Titanic was at a depth of almost 4 km and the search required the appropriate equipment.

In the end, luck smiled at Robert Ballard, who had been preparing for the expedition step by step for nearly 13 years. After almost two months of searches, when there were only 5 days left until the end of the expedition and Ballard had already begun to doubt the success of the event, some strange shadows appeared on the monitor associated with the video camera on the descent deep-sea vehicle. This happened at almost one in the morning on September 1, 1985. It soon became clear that this was nothing more than the wreckage of a ship. After some time, one of the steam boilers was discovered and there was no doubt that the wreckage belonged to the Titanic. The next day, the front of the ship's hull was discovered. A big surprise was the lack of stern: after an investigation in 1912, it was officially believed that the ship had sunk entirely.

Ballard's first expedition provided answers to many questions and presented the world with a number of modern photographs of the Titanic, but much still remained unclear. A year later, Ballard again went to the Titanic, and this expedition already used a deep-sea descent vehicle that could deliver three people to the ocean floor. There was also a small robot that allowed for research inside the ship. This expedition clarified many questions that had remained open since 1912, and after it Ballard no longer planned to return to the Titanic. But what Ballard did not do, others did, and new expeditions soon reached the Titanic. Some of them were purely research in nature, some pursued the goal of lifting various objects from the bottom, incl. and for sale at auction, which caused many scandals about the moral and ethical side of the issue. James Cameron has repeatedly descended to the Titanic; not only for filming his 1997 film, but also for robotics research inside the ship (see the documentary "Ghosts of the Abyss: Titanic"), which has revealed many new facts about the condition of the ship and its once magnificent finish.

As for the issue of raising the Titanic, after the expeditions of Ballard, it became obvious that this operation would not only be daunting and expensive; The hull of the ship has long been in such a state that it will simply crumble into pieces, if not during ascent, then on the surface.

1. Let's see how the Titanic looks now and how it looked before. The Titanic sank in the Atlantic at a depth of almost 4 km. During submersion under water, the ship broke into two parts, which now lie at the bottom about six hundred meters from each other. Many debris and objects are scattered around them, incl. and a pretty large piece of the Titanic's hull.

2. Model of the bow. When the ship fell to the bottom, the bow was very well buried in silt, which greatly disappointed the first researchers, because it was impossible to inspect the place of impact on the iceberg without special equipment. The torn hole in the hull, which can be seen on the model, was formed by hitting the bottom.

3. A panorama of the bow, collected from several hundred images. From right to left: a spare anchor winch protrudes directly above the nose edge, behind it there is a mooring device, immediately behind it is an open hatch to hold No. 1, from which the breakwater lines diverge to the sides. On the inter-superstructure deck there is a fallen mast, under it there are two more hatches to the holds and winches for working with cargo. In front of the main superstructure there used to be a captain's bridge, which collapsed during the fall to the bottom and is now guessed only from individual details. Behind the bridge, there is a superstructure with the cabins of officers, a captain, a radio room, etc., which is crossed by a crack formed at the site of the expansion joint. The gaping hole in the superstructure is the place for the first chimney. Immediately behind the superstructure, another hole is visible - this is a well, in which the main staircase was located. To the left is something very ragged - there was a second pipe.

4. The nose of the Titanic. The most accordion object of underwater photographs of the ship. At the end you can see a loop on which a cable was put on, which held the mast.

5. The photo on the left shows the spare anchor winch towering over the bow.

6. The main anchor of the port side. It's amazing how he didn't fly down when hitting the bottom.

7. Spare anchor:

8. Behind the spare anchor there is a mooring device:

9. Open hatch to hold No. 1. The lid flew off to the side, apparently on impact on the bottom.

10. On the mast there used to be the remains of the "crow's nest", where the lookouts were, but ten or twenty years ago they fell off and now only the hole in the mast, through which the lookouts got to the spiral staircase, reminds of the "crow's nest". The protruding tail behind the hole is the fastening of the ship's bell.

11. Board of the vessel:

12. Only one of the steering wheels remained from the captain's bridge.

13. Boat deck. The superstructure on it is either torn out by the roots or torn apart in places.

14. Preserved part of the superstructure in the forward part of the deck. At the bottom right is the entrance to the 1st class main staircase.

15. The surviving davits, a bathtub in Captain Smith's cabin and the remains of a steamer whistle, which was installed on one of the pipes.

16. A huge well now gapes at the site of the main staircase. No traces of the stairs have survived.

17. Staircase in 1912:

18. And the same angle in our time. Looking at the previous photo, it is somehow hard to believe that this is one and the same place.

19. Behind the stairs there were several elevators for 1st class passengers. Separate elements have been preserved from them. The inscription, depicted at the bottom right, was located opposite the elevators and indicated the deck. This inscription belonged to deck A; the bronze letter A had already fallen off, but traces of it remained.

20. Hall 1 class on Deck D. This is the lower part of the main staircase.

21. Although almost all of the wooden trim of the ship has long been eaten by microorganisms, some elements are still preserved here.

22. The restaurant and the 1st class hall on deck D were separated from the outside world by large stained glass windows, which have survived to this day.

23. Remnants of former beauty:

24. Outside, the windows are guessed by the characteristic double portholes.

25. Luxurious chandeliers have been hanging in their places for over 100 years.

26. The once magnificent interiors of 1st class cabins are now littered with debris and debris. In some places, you can find the surviving elements of furniture and objects.

29. A few more details. The door to the restaurant on Deck D and the sign for the service doors:

30. The stokers had their own "main staircase". In order not to meet with passengers, a separate staircase led from the boiler rooms to the stokers' cabins.

31. Hundreds of objects are scattered across the ocean floor, ranging from ship details to personal belongings of passengers.

The passenger liner "Titanic" sank in the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. Even well-to-do people could afford tickets for the ship, even for the third class, so luxurious jewelry and household items sank along with the liner - about the most expensive of them in this top.

The watch belonged to Edmund Stone, who was a first class steward on the Titanic. The uniqueness of this find is that they stopped at 2:16, exactly at the time when the watch, together with the owner, went to the bottom of the Atlantic. The watch was sold for $ 154,000.

Stuart Edmund Stone's clock stopped at 2:16 am when the Titanic sank

Other watches were also found that belonged to 24-year-old passenger John Gill. Its watch stopped at 3:21, by which time the Titanic was completely submerged. After being raised from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Gill's body was handed over to his widow Sarah. It replaced the watch mechanism, but kept the old mechanism and dial separately. The watch was sold by Gill's nephew at an auction in London for £ 25,000.

Many manuscripts were sold from the sunken Titanic at various auctions. The most famous manuscript is a letter written by Adolf Saalfeld to his wife. Adolf Saalfeld is the head of the pharmaceutical and cosmetics company Sparks, White, and Co. Ltd.

Famous perfumer Adolf Saalfeld was able to escape

He was carrying a collection of perfumes to America, planning to expand his cosmetic network. He was lucky, he was able to escape in a boat from the Titanic and stay alive. In a letter to his wife, he described the chic interiors of the Titanic, the amazing menu and talked about his “wonderful journey.” By the way, the menu from the Titanic sold for $ 125,000.

The most mysterious item from the sunken Titanic is a gold bracelet with Amy's inscription. Researchers speculate that its owner could have been Amanda, who was a member of the crew. Also, this decoration could belong to two other girls, second class passengers - Miss Amanda or Amelie.

The total cost of jewelry from the sunken Titanic is about $ 200,000,000

In addition, there is a version that the bracelet was brought to someone as a gift. The main part of the bracelet is made of pure gold, the inscription is lined with diamonds. In addition to the bracelet, a lot of gold and diamond jewelry was found on the Titanic. Their total cost is about $ 200,000,000.

The violin belonged to Wallace Hartley. He was a member of the orchestra that played on the deck of the ship at the time of the wreck. The orchestra was forced to play in order to prevent panic and calm the passengers at least a little. Wallace died, having tied a violin to him, the instrument was very dear to him: he received it as a gift from his fiancee Miss Robinson in 1910.

Wallace Hartley died by tying a violin to himself

The violin was found in 2006 and for a long time experts established its authenticity. It was sold at an auction in London for one and a half million dollars.