Posted by admin on Apr 10, 2012
The ‘Unsinkable Ship’ setting sail for her fateful maiden voyage a century ago is an image those who waved her off will never forget. But while the enduring memory of the Titanic is of the famous liner sinking into the North Atlantic, one man captured a rare snapshot of the moment she set off on her one and only journey.
Sailing smoothly through the waves just off Southampton, this 100-year-old photograph shows the doomed boat taking to the icy seas on April 10th, 1912. It was captured by then 15-year-old Elliot Brown.
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