"Titanic" in the eyes of the passenger Bashny.Net

Photos taken on board immediately prior to cruise





Some of the best photos taken aboard the "Titanic" have been made by Reverend Frank Brown. On the centenary of the death of the ship will be released an album of his shots. Directed by James Cameron used the photos while working on his film.


In 1912, when Frank Brown studied at the seminary in Dublin, his uncle gave the young man a ticket for the "Titanic" from Southampton to Cherbourg and then to Queenstown (Cobh).


Father and son, pictured in this photograph, survived the catastrophe, but six months later the car ran over the boy and his father, who was rescued in the ocean and drowned in the pool.


Future priests offered to stay on the ship to New York, but by sending a request to his mentor in Dublin, he received the answer: "Leave the ship." Brown kept the telegram his entire life in his wallet and said that the first submission of the sacred human life saved.


Robert Ballard, who discovered the remains of the "Titanic" at the bottom of the ocean in 1985, said the robot explored the wreck, looked through the window of the gym and found that exercisers have remained in their places.


After the catastrophe of "Titanic" Brown photos were printed in newspapers around the world, and he gave numerous interviews. The company White Star, which owned the lost liner, sent a letter to the priest: "Sir, we would be grateful if in your lectures you will not mention the death of" Titanic ", because, as you know, we do not want this tragedy to reopen the minds of men ". Brown gave a lecture on "Titanic" until his death.


In this picture "Titanic" for the last time leaving the port, leaving in the cold waters of the Atlantic, where it will not come back. All photos provided by the family Davison and Irish Jesuit Provincialate.