1.This is what the great promenade deck of the Titanic looked like in 1912:
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2.And here’s what the deck looks like today:
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3.Here’s another view of the boat deck of the Titanic. Notice the bench in the corner there?
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4.Here’s one of those same benches at the bottom of the ocean:
The end of a bronze deck bench, the wood attached to it long since rotted away, lies in the debris field of the wreck of the Titanic.
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5.This is what the first class dining room of the Titanic looked like before:
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6.And here’s what it looks like today:
Notice the windows still intact.
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7.This is what one of the ornate chandeliers in the Titanic’s fancier areas looked like brand new:
8.And here’s the same chandelier, barely hanging on at the bottom of the sea:
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9.This is what the Titanic’s anchor looked like as the ship was being built:
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10.And here’s what it looks like in its final resting place:
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11.These are the propellers of the Titanic before its maiden voyage:
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12.And here’s one of those ENORMOUS propellers today:
Looks small without anything to measure against.
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13.While there are no pictures of the Titanic’s grand staircase from before it sank, this is what the grand staircase on the Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, looked like:
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14.And this is what the grand staircase of the Titanic looked like as recent as 2001:
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15.This is what the dome of the Titanic’s grand staircase looked like before:
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16.And this is it collapsed at the bottom of the ocean:
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17.Here’s what the Titanic’s boilers looked like before:
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18.And here’s one of those boilers now:
A boiler from the wreck of the Titanic lies on the Atlantic Ocean floor south of Newfoundland. The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage on April 14-15, 1912.
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19.This is what the first class elevators looked like aboard the nearly identical Olympic ship looked like:
20.And here’s one of those same elevators thousands of feet below the water:
21.This what Scotland Road, a long hallway used to traverse the length of the ship, looked like before the tragedy:
22.And here’s Scotland Road almost 100 years later:
23.This is what the Turkish baths aboard the Titanic looked like before:
Here’s a closer look at the detailed tile design:
24.And here’s that same spot after:
25.This is the last photograph ever taken of the Titanic:
It sunk three days later.
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26.And this is where that picture was taken looks like today:
27.Back to the upper deck. Notice the lifeboat windlass here:
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28.Here’s one of those today:
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29.Here’s what the wheel of the Titanic looked like when it was first launched:
30.And here’s what it looks like now:
The wheel is gone, but the stanchion remains.
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31.While we’re up here, here’s on of the boat deck’s davits before:
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32.And here it is after:
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33.This is what one of the Titanic’s smokestacks looked like before being put on the ship. Note the tiny little man in the corner:
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34.And here’s where one of those smokestacks would have gone today:
The hole from the number one funnel of the shipwrecked Titanic. It’s completely gone.
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35.This is what one of the stained glass windows in the Titanic’s first class area look like before:
36.And here’s one of the same windows decades upon decades later:
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37.This is what the Titanic’s crow nest looked like before the ship’s maiden voyage:
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38.And here’s the crow’s nest years and years later:
It has since been destroyed.
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39.And, finally, this is what the Titanic’s bow looked like before setting off:
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40.And here’s the bow today:
