RMS Titanic Collections - Online Exhibit
Our Extensive Exhibit Covering the White Star liner Titanic, the largest ship ever built. Profusely illustrated topics include Planning, Building, and Launching, Officers, Crew Members, Provisions & Cargo, Manifests & Passenger Lists, Fashions, Anatomy of the Disaster, Victims, Survivors, Aftermath, Book Collection, Ephemera & Reproductions, Magazines & Journals, Movies & Motion Pictures, Collectibles & Memorabilia, Memorials, Documentary Videos, and our Huge Image Library.
The White Star liner Titanic, the largest ship ever built, bound from Liverpool for New York, collided with an iceberg, four hundred miles off the shore of Newfoundland, on the night of April 14th, and about four hours later sank in water two miles deep.
There were nearly 2,200 persons on board, including passengers and a crew of about 800. It was supposed that 1,200 or more of these lost their lives, for when the Carpathia, one of several vessels summoned by wireless, reached the scene of the disaster, she found boats containing only about 850 persons.
The Titanic’s Construction and Launch: Engineering, Innovation, and Oversight
The "Planning, Building, and Launching the Titanic" section presents a detailed, step-by-step account of how the world’s most famous ocean liner came to life—from the drawing board to its ill-fated maiden voyage. This collection of articles covers every aspect of Titanic’s design, engineering, and grandeur, while also examining the technological and safety shortcomings that contributed to its tragic sinking.
🌍 Who Should Use This Resource?
✅ Teachers & Students – Excellent for history, STEM, and social studies essays
✅ Genealogists – Understand the world in which Titanic’s passengers and crew lived
✅ Historians – Study maritime advancements and Edwardian-era shipbuilding
✅ Maritime Enthusiasts – Explore the engineering and opulence of Titanic
📌 For students writing essays on maritime history, engineering, or social class aboard the Titanic, this resource provides primary sources, technical details, and rich historical context.
RMS Titanic Officers: Leadership, Qualifications, and Legacy
This richly curated index page brings together detailed biographies of all deck officers aboard the RMS Titanic, weaving personal narratives, official ranks, heroic moments, and tragedy into a captivating and educational collection. For teachers, students, genealogists, and maritime historians, this page offers context, emotional depth, and documentary evidence that breathe life into the individuals who held command during the ship’s final voyage. 🧭🕯️
Each profile links to an in-depth page focused on one officer, forming an interconnected web of leadership, responsibility, and fate.
The RMS Titanic's crew had a complement of 860, made up of 475 stewards, cooks, etc., 320 engineers, and 65 engaged in her navigation. A complete listing of all Crew Members, photographs, and related stories is included.
The condition of the food served at sea on the great liner like the Titanic is always prime. Refrigerators that have the capacity for 500 tons of food are freshly filled for each voyage, and they keep everything put Into them in perfect condition.
Unlike most transatlantic voyages from the early 1900s, the RMS Titanic ended up producing more lists of passengers and crew than perhaps any other journey on record. The plethora of manifests evolved and expanded as researchers, compendiums, encyclopedias, book authors, and others are all seeking to produce a list with some distinction.
The Titanic Era fashions were as elegant as you might envision to more simple clothing. Dressing up for dining in either the First or Second Class required more formal attire - tuxedos for men, day or evening dresses for women.
🚢 Titanic Lifeboat Archive – In-Depth Passenger & Lifeboat Analysis
The RMS Titanic, the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of its time, set sail with only 20 lifeboats, a fatal shortcoming that contributed to the massive loss of life when the ship struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. This article provides a detailed examination of Titanic's lifeboat design, their placement on the ship, and the flawed regulations that allowed such a disaster to unfold.
For historians, students, genealogists, and maritime enthusiasts, this section is an invaluable resource that highlights why Titanic was woefully under-equipped for an emergency and how misplaced confidence in the ship’s "unsinkable" status led to disaster.
Explore the events, ship, and personalities that made this particular disaster the most written about the marine disaster of all time. From being touted as "Unsinkable" to it chilling dive to the bottom five days into its maiden voyage. After reading these incredible and sometimes incredulous stories, one might wonder if this was a vortex of the Bermuda Triangle.
The RMS Titanic claimed 1,503 lives on 15 April 1912 -- 832 passengers and 685 crew members, representing approximately 68% of the total souls on board of 2,208. The tragic loss of life was all but guaranteed as the Titanic had only 20 lifeboats with a capacity of 1,178.
The survivors were picked up in boats by the Cunard steamer “Carpathia” shortly after the “Titanic” had gone down, and were landed at New York on Thursday night April 18.
"The Aftermath of the RMS Titanic Disaster," provides a comprehensive overview of the various articles, testimonies, and reflections that emerged in the wake of the disaster, each offering unique insights into the causes, consequences, and lessons of the Titanic's ill-fated voyage.
American Inquiry and Titanic Investigation - 1912
A total of 82 witnesses testified about ice warnings that were ignored, the inadequate number of lifeboats, the ship's speed, the failure of nearby ships to respond to the Titanic's distress calls, and the treatment of passengers of different classes.
Our collection features both hardcover and softcover books devoted to the many topics that comprise the world of the RMS Titanic, the ship, passengers, survivors, findings, movies, and more.
Ocean Liner ephemera, the brochures, tickets, passenger lists, baggage tags, voyage abstract of logs, landing cards, lithographs, postcards, and photographs were often kept as voyage souvenirs and later coveted by collectors. This collection of selected RMS Titanic reproductions are part of the GG Archives.
Our collection features publications that were entirely devoted to the Titanic or had substantive articles about the RMS Titanic, the ship, passengers, survivors, findings, and more.
It seems an impossibility—and is today-to attempt to photograph at depths of one or two miles, and yet what has been accomplished the past month was deemed equally unattainable a few years ago. It is unlikely, but by no means impossible) that children of those who went down in the “Titanic" may live to look upon an actual picture of that great steamship resting on the ocean's floor.
While the actual RMS Titanic ephemera and other collectibles are both scarce and pricey, there are plenty of reproductions available for a reasonable price, suitable for many Titanic aficionados. You'll quickly notice that packaging of the collectibles are often the priority since the product (reproductions of available documents) is essentially the same from all suppliers.
Expressions of tender, heartfelt sympathy for those who were in great grief; sorrow for those who died; glowing words of tribute for the heroism which had thrilled the world and then strong words urging legislation and regulation to prevent a recurrence of the Titanic catastrophe marked the memorial meeting on April 21, 1912. Many memorials were planned and created that documented the heroism displayed during the Titanic Disaster and to recognize the people who died in this tragedy.
Educational, entertaining, documentary videos covering the RMS Titanic provides the visual component in learning through extraordinary films made around the time of the disaster in 1912 to present day, incorporating new discoveries to help viewers understand what really happened.
All our RMS Titanic-related images organized by source, date, and page, used throughout this section to illustrate the numerous articles, essays, and other items in this section.
RMS Titanic Images - Charts, Tables, Diagrams, Graphs, Maps
RMS Titanic Images - Historical Charts, Tables, Diagrams, Graphs, Maps is a collection from many sources from the 1910s. These images present a memorable way to infuse a sense of what happened to the world's most famous tragedy!
RMS Titanic Images - Deck Plans
Superb Collection of Deck Plans are provided for Boat Deck and Promenade Deck A, Poop Deck, Bridge Deck B, Forecastle Deck, Shelter Deck C, Saloon Deck D, Upper Deck E, Middle Deck F, Lower Deck G, Orlop Deck, Lower Orlop Deck, and Tank Top. Longitudinal Section Showing Decks and Watertight Bulkheads, Transverse (Amidship) Section, Cross-Section, Public Rooms, Staterooms, Boiler Rooms Nos 1 and 2, and Engine Rooms.
A Time Story of the Titanic Disaster
Pieced together from the various definite statements of time made by survivors and captains of neighboring ships.
SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1912
5 p.m. The wireless operator informs the Captain of the message of huge bergs nearby. The Captain personally acknowledges the message.
7.10 p.m.-Mr. Bruce Ismay returns a notification of the icebergs ' proximity to the Captain.
11.45 p.m.- Titanic struck Iceberg. Three or four accounts distinctly mention this time. Position 41-46 N. 50°14 W.
Midnight: Bride, assistant wireless operator, relieves Phillips, chief operator.
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1912
12.15 a.m. Passengers and crew are beginning to realize the nature of the catastrophe (half - hour after striking).
12.25 a.m. Titanic's quartermaster was at the wheel until told by the second officer to take charge of a lifeboat.
12.40 a.m.-Virginian received a wireless message from Cape Race that Titanic wanted "immediate assistance ."
1.20 a.m. -Cape Race wired Virginians that Titanic was putting women and
children into boats.
1.57 a.m.-Titanic's wireless messages ceased abruptly, according to Cape
Race. An assistant wireless operator on Titanic states that Phillips clung to sending messages until after the last boat, but one had been launched.
2.22 a.m.- Titanic sank bow foremost, stern remaining in the air " like a great finger. " Sank close to where she struck.
3.30 a.m.-Lights of Titanic's boats sighted by Carpathia.
5 a.m. By this time, ten or twelve boats had been picked up.
6.10 a.m.-Californian wires Virginian that she could see the Carpathia taking on board the rescued passengers from small boats.
9 a.m. Last boatload rescued by Carpathia ( 705 persons in all ).
10.40 a.m. -The German liner, Frankfurt, arrives on the disaster scene.
4 p.m.: Four passengers who died from exposure on Carpathia buried at sea.
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1912
8.37 p.m.-Carpathia arrived at New York with survivors.
The ship herself was valued at nearly $8,000,000 and her cargo at $1,600,000. The disaster was the worst in the history of sea travel, and it roused intense and sorrowful interest all over the world.
Many prominent persons were on board the ship, including Colonel John Jacob Astor and wife; Major Archibald Butt, aid to President Taft; Charles M. Hayes, president of the Grand Trunk Railway ; William B. Stead; F. E. Millet, the noted artist; Isidor Straus; J. Thayer, vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Benjamin Guggenheim; Henry B. Harris, theatrical manager, and Norman C. Craig, M. P. Several of these were reported lost.
Most of those saved were women and children, who were given the first chance to enter the lifeboats. Captain E. J. Smith, who commanded the Titanic, went down with his ship. Those rescued from the boats had spent a night of suffering and terror.
It is believed by many that the Titanic struck a partially submerged iceberg so that her bulkheads were torn out or collapsed. The Titanic's dimensions were: Length, 882 feet 6 inches; breadth, 92 feet 6 inches; height, 105 feet 7 inches. She had eleven steel decks and fifteen water-tight bulkheads. Her registered tonnage was 45,000, and she had accommodations for 2,600 passengers.
Twelve days from her builders' yard to the bottom of the Atlantic with the most considerable loss of life and property on record for a single wreck, was the meteoric career of the great White Star Line steamship “Titanic,” the largest and most exceptional vessel ever constructed. This is her story.
