The bow of the Titanic imaged by the remotely operated submersible Hercules during a 2004 expedition.

The propellers on the Titanic photographed during construction in Ireland.

The Titanic on the stocks in Harland & Wolff’s shipyard, Belfast, Northern Ireland. She sank on 12 April 1912 after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage to New York .

The Titanic docked in Southhampton before her first – and last – crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.

The front page of the New York Times the day after the disaster.

Arthur Gordon McCrae was born in Adelaide in 1880. He became one of the more than 90 per cent of male second class passengers who died, as officers in charge of loading lifeboats gave precedence to women and children.

Evelyn Marsden was born at Stockyard Creek in Dalkey, about 80km north of Adelaide. She was a stewardess and a nurse in first class on the ship.

Charles Dahl, who was born in Norway in 1866, had emigrated to Adelaide in 1892, where he worked as a joiner and lived until 1912. He was asleep in his cabin when the ship struck the iceberg. After dressing in warm clothes, he made his way to the deck and escaped in Lifeboat 15.

Survivors on a lifeboat, photographed by a passenger of the Carpathia, the first ship to come to the Titanic‘s aid – sadly too late to save most of those aboard.

The Reading and Writing Room on Titanic‘s A-Deck, gives some sense of the opulence of the interior.

View of the ocean liner on her first and last voyage, after leaving Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland. More than 1,500 lives would later be lost.

Rows of dishes – photographed in 1987 – sit 3km below the surface of the ocean near the wreckage of the RMS in the North Atlantic. The Titanic struck an iceberg 14 April 1912, taking more than 1,500 of the 2,228 passengers with it.