WRECK OF TITANIC - 1912
Illustration by Michael C Brady, 2020
nearer my god to thee
Titanic’s sinking is the most well-studied maritime disaster in history, and yet many mysteries have yet to be solved. When she struck the iceberg, Captain Smith was quick to the bridge and sounded the ship with one of her carpenters John Hall Hutchinson. The prognosis was damning; the liner would soon be gone.
The human drama that played out over the next two hours and forty minutes was an epic of bravery, tragedy and suffering. Women were separated from men for boarding into lifeboats; brothers from sisters, husbands from wives. The tiny 30’ clinker boats were swung out nearly ten stories over the Atlantic and lowered into the night.
This drawing is unique in that the great ship’s wreck is today shrouded in blackness and has been seldom represented in graphic media. Here is a full starboard profile based on the very latest imagery and information.
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THE details
Titanic’s bow is buried deep into the sediment, right up to her anchors.
The fore mast crashed back onto the bridge, smashing the wooden bridgefront and wrecking the instruments.
At the aft end of the bow section, decks and bulkheads dangle like entrails. The window cut-outs at top were part of the First Class Lounge and Reading & Writing Room.
Titanic’s reciprocating engines - exposed after the ship tore herself apart. These monstrous machines are the size of a three-story building.
The Second Class Entrance aft. The deck beams here were bent downwards by a huge downblast of water after the ship impacted the sea floor. An electric cargo crane is perched precariously on A-Deck.
Starboard propeller - bent hideously upwards by the 20,000 ton stern section’s immense impact with the sea bed.
