Ninety-nine years ago the largest steamship in the world gave itself up to the cold waters of the Northern Atlantic.
RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, and sank on 15 April 1912. She hit the iceberg four days into the crossing, at 23:40 on 14 April 1912, and sank at 2:20 the following morning, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
I remember this year since my grandmother was born only two months later. I wonder what my great grandmother must have thought with the tremendous loss of life from something so bragged about as immune to acts of God.
This is supposedly the actual iceberg which sunk the ship - it had a smear of red paint on it similar to what was on the hull.
Find the poster at the top HERE. Otherwise be sure to check out my Titanic etsy favorites to the bottom right of this site.