Thursday, 22 October 2015

These are the negatives for the incredible images, with the top right showing Titantic's sister ship, RMS Olympic


The snaps were taken at 12.15pm on May 31, 1911 by a Belfast businessman who was given close access to the doomed liner at the Harland and Wolff shipyard


The picture of the iceberg taken from passing German liner Prinz Adalbert has appeared in books about the disaster but an accompanying note which gives it credibility was virtually unknown until now


On the same day, the Titanic's sister ship, the RMS Olympic, that had been launched in October 1910, set off on her maiden trip to Liverpool


Never-seen-before photographs showing the launch of he ill-fated Titanic from a shipyard in Belfast


Linoenewald was the chief steward on the German liner Prinz Adalbert that passed the disaster scene on the morning of April 15. The Titanic had sunk at 2.20am on the same day.


After the official inquiry into the Titanic, pictured, disaster in which 1,523 people died, both items were framed and hung in the company's boardroom until they went out of business in 2002