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April 29th, 1912, evening – The Great Western Railway special train carrying Titanic crew from Plymouth arrives at South...
08/09/2025

April 29th, 1912, evening – The Great Western Railway special train carrying Titanic crew from Plymouth arrives at Southampton West station. Along the platform, families and friends watch intently for returning loved ones, scanning each carriage as it slows to a halt.

By now, most in Southampton have learned who among the crew survived, though a handful of reunions—and heartbreaks—still await. For the 167 crew members aboard, it marks the end of weeks of uncertainty and the beginning of a return to the familiar, after a month in which their lives were caught up in an event that drew the eyes of the world.

National Archives (UK).

April 30th, 1912, 10:00 AM – The cable ship Mackay-Bennett docks at Halifax’s Navy Yard to deliver the recovered bodies ...
08/08/2025

April 30th, 1912, 10:00 AM – The cable ship Mackay-Bennett docks at Halifax’s Navy Yard to deliver the recovered bodies of Titanic victims. A total of 190 remains, preserved in ice-filled holds, are transferred by horse-drawn hearses to the Mayflower Curling Club, where they will be identified, processed, and prepared for burial.

Crowds numbering in the thousands gather outside the Navy Yard gates, though their view of the vessel is obscured by white canvas sheets held aloft by volunteers to block cameras and spectators. In his journal, crewman Frederick Hamilton notes the contrast between this massive public turnout and the quiet reception just weeks earlier when the ship landed survivors of the schooner Caledonia—observing that now, “with not one life to show, thousands come to see the landing, and the papers burst out into blazing headlines.”

Nova Scotia Archives.

At the Titanic wreck site lies the remains of the crow’s nest, where lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee first sig...
08/08/2025

At the Titanic wreck site lies the remains of the crow’s nest, where lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee first sighted the iceberg on April 14, 1912. The circular opening at center once served as a doorway, reached by a ladder running up the foremast to the nest above.

In this 1991 photograph, the base of the crow’s nest is still visible, though decades of corrosion have since taken their toll. By the most recent dives in 2019, the foremast was reported to be nearly gone, leaving only a streak of rust between the forecastle and bridge.

Photo by Emory Kristof/National Geographic Society.

The remains of a Japanese Mitsubishi F1M reconnaissance floatplane rest 30 meters beneath the waters off Rabaul, photogr...
08/08/2025

The remains of a Japanese Mitsubishi F1M reconnaissance floatplane rest 30 meters beneath the waters off Rabaul, photographed during a 2016 site visit. This pontoon-equipped biplane was lost while moored near the Pacific island during the closing days of the Second World War.

Today, it is regarded as one of the most recognizable wrecks in a region still scattered with the remnants of both Allied and Japanese forces, who fought for control of the area through much of the war.

Photo by Darren Jew.

Aside from minor rusting, light sediment, and the occasional deep-sea galathea crab, this bulkhead aboard the es**rt car...
08/08/2025

Aside from minor rusting, light sediment, and the occasional deep-sea galathea crab, this bulkhead aboard the es**rt carrier USS St. Lo appears much as it did on the morning of her loss on October 25th, 1944.

Sunk in the Philippine Trench during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, she was the first major Allied warship destroyed by a kamikaze strike in World War II. Photographed nearly three miles down in May 2019, the wreck remains the final resting place of 113 crew members who went down with the ship.

Photo: Navigea Ltd/RV Petrel, 2019

Despite its isolation 12,500 feet beneath the North Atlantic, the wreck of RMS Titanic has not escaped modern litter. In...
08/08/2025

Despite its isolation 12,500 feet beneath the North Atlantic, the wreck of RMS Titanic has not escaped modern litter. In this 2004 image, plastic cups lie beneath the bronze end frame of one of the ship’s deck benches—likely dropped from a passing vessel far above.

Other items on the site date to earlier exploration, including dive weights left by the submersible Alvin during the first manned visit to the wreck in 1986. Such debris, whether accidental or deliberate, serves as a reminder that even the most remote and historically significant places are vulnerable to human impact.

Photo: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2004.

Titanic’s two massive triple-expansion reciprocating engines—each towering almost four decks in height—are among the mos...
08/08/2025

Titanic’s two massive triple-expansion reciprocating engines—each towering almost four decks in height—are among the most intact features left in the stern’s collapse. Together they produced nearly 30,000 horsepower, driving the ship’s wing propellers.

Combined with the 16,000-horsepower low-pressure turbine powering the center screw, the system could propel the liner at over 21 knots during trials. Today, more than a century later, these colossal machines stand as rust-covered monuments to early 20th-century marine engineering.

Photo: Courtesy of RMS Titanic, Inc.

Resting 75 meters below the Baltic Sea near the Swedish island of Ă–land, the wreck of the 16th-century warship Mars rema...
08/07/2025

Resting 75 meters below the Baltic Sea near the Swedish island of Ă–land, the wreck of the 16th-century warship Mars remains remarkably well-preserved. Lost in battle on May 31, 1564, during the First Battle of Ă–land, the ship caught fire and sank with much of her crew. Discovered in 2011, the wreck has yielded an extraordinary collection of early naval artifacts. Among them are iron cannons still positioned in their original gunports, captured here amidst well-preserved wooden hull structures during a 2018 research dive.

Photo by Tomasz Stachura.

Diver RJ Polomski inspects an old bottle within the galley of the SS Emperor, a Great Lakes freighter that sank off the ...
08/06/2025

Diver RJ Polomski inspects an old bottle within the galley of the SS Emperor, a Great Lakes freighter that sank off the northern tip of Isle Royale in the early hours of June 4, 1947. The ship struck rocks at Canoe Rocks Reef and sank within 30 minutes, claiming the lives of 12 crew members. Remarkably, the bottle still contains remnants of milk—now a hardened, chalky substance after decades underwater. The wreck, preserved in the cold, fresh waters of Lake Superior, lies at a depth of roughly 25 to 60 meters and remains a well-known site among wreck divers for its accessibility and intact features.

Photo by RJ Polomski.

Aboard Titanic’s wrecked bridge, one of the original port-side lifeboat davits remains in place, its polished worm gear ...
08/06/2025

Aboard Titanic’s wrecked bridge, one of the original port-side lifeboat davits remains in place, its polished worm gear still clearly visible. Left in its extended loading position during the evacuation, it now serves as a quiet marker of the early morning hours of April 15, 1912. Just beyond it, the fractured remains of the upper foremast lie across the wreck’s superstructure—its once-thin metal casing now heavily decayed after more than a century at sea.

Photo by Emory Kristof / National Geographic Society.

April 13th, 1912, morning — First-class passenger Alexander Oskar Holverson writes a letter to his mother from aboard Ti...
08/06/2025

April 13th, 1912, morning — First-class passenger Alexander Oskar Holverson writes a letter to his mother from aboard Titanic, likely after visiting the ship’s barber shop, which also served as a store for purchasing souvenirs and postcards. In his message, Holverson describes the ship as a “palacial hotel” and praises the food and music, noting favorable weather and an expected arrival in New York the following Wednesday.

He also mentions sending along postcards of the ship and its interior. While those postcards were never delivered, the letter itself was later recovered with Holverson’s body by the cable ship Mackay-Bennett. Today, the letter survives as one of the few personal correspondences written aboard Titanic and returned from the sea—its stained paper still bearing physical traces of its time adrift in the North Atlantic.

Courtesy of Henry Aldridge & Son.

April 13th, 1912, late morning — The coal fire that had been smoldering in Titanic’s Boiler Room 5 since before she left...
08/06/2025

April 13th, 1912, late morning — The coal fire that had been smoldering in Titanic’s Boiler Room 5 since before she left Belfast is officially declared out. Such fires were not unusual at the time, often resulting from spontaneous combustion or residual sparks from nearby lit furnaces.

In Titanic’s case, the fire had burned beneath coal piles for several days, requiring crew members to gradually shovel the smoldering material into furnaces to suppress it. The process left minor surface damage: some scorched paint and a slightly warped forward bulkhead.

While occasionally cited in modern theories as a contributing factor in Titanic’s sinking, the overwhelming consensus among maritime historians is that the fire played no significant role in the ship’s structural failure. Extensive expert analysis has found no credible evidence linking the incident to the disaster that followed.

Source : Archival image of a c.1910 coal bunker via Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo.

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