--- title: The Titanic: Pictures From the Book, 'The Tragedy that Shook the World: One Century Later' description: One hundred years after Titanic left Southampton on its ill-fated voyage, LIFE Books presents pictures that remind us of both the harrowing scope of the disaster, and its elemental, human cost. canonical: https://time.com/3871177/titanic-one-hundred-years-later/ author: Liz Ronk article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2012-02-10T03:11:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:56.585Z og:title: The Titanic: Pictures From the Book, 'The Tragedy that Shook the World: One Century Later' og:description: One hundred years after Titanic left Southampton on its ill-fated voyage, LIFE Books presents pictures that remind us of both the harrowing scope of the disaster, and its elemental, human cost. og:url: https://time.com/3871177/titanic-one-hundred-years-later/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65b48b9ab3f8fed3/698846dc524fc0b9fadf19f6/08_newshawker-boys-corbis-hu0136571.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: News of the Titanic disaster, London, 1912 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Titanic: Pictures From the Book, 'The Tragedy that Shook the World: One Century Later' twitter:description: One hundred years after Titanic left Southampton on its ill-fated voyage, LIFE Books presents pictures that remind us of both the harrowing scope of the disaster, and its elemental, human cost. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65b48b9ab3f8fed3/698846dc524fc0b9fadf19f6/08_newshawker-boys-corbis-hu0136571.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Titanic: One Hundred Years Later > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) ## Liz Ronk Feb 10, 2012 3:11 AM UTC  News of the Titanic disaster spreads in London on the day the ship went down, April 15, 1912. News of the Titanic disaster spreads in London on the day the ship went down, April 15, 1912.Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS by [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) ## Liz Ronk Feb 10, 2012 3:11 AM UTC One hundred years ago, an ocean liner collided with an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic. One thousand five hundred and seventeen lives were lost. Seven hundred and ten people survived. Those are the bare, unadorned facts of the _Titanic_ disaster. But, of course, describing that epic, endlessly fascinating and (let’s face it) romantic catastrophe in such spare, soulless terms is a bit like calling _Moby-Dick_ a tale about fishing: mere facts do not even come close to encompassing the scale of the tragedy, or explaining the astonishing hold the events of April 14-15, 1912, have long had on our collective imagination. Cold weather in the U.S. and increased competition hit the fast food king's sales hard last month Discussing why the _Titanic_ saga still resonates today with millions of people around the globe, the editors of LIFE Books — in the new release, _Titanic: The Tragedy that Shook the World: One Century Later_ — write of the disaster that long ago assumed the narrative lineaments of a modern myth: “Various elements made this drama essential: Had the great ship sunk on her second or third Atlantic crossing rather than he maiden voyage, had she been just marginally less grand, had Margaret ‘Molly’ Brown or John Jacob Astor IV not been aboard, had the band not played as the frigid d waters rose, had the world been at war or otherwise distracted, well, the _Titanic_ might be simply one more footnote in maritime lore. But as it is, the _Titanic_‘s is a legendary seafaring story to challenge Ahab and his _Pequod_. “One hundred years later,” the editors note, “we are all paying attention again. But then: We have never not paid attention.” Here, LIFE.com offers a selection of images from the book: pictures that remind us, poignantly, not only of the phenomenal, harrowing scope of the _Titanic_ disaster, but of its human cost — a cost measured in the lives of individuals, and families, whose world was upended, forever, on a cold night in the North Atlantic one hundred years ago. [Buy the LIFE book, _Titanic: The Tragedy That Shook the World: One Century Later_.](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1603202137/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1603202137&linkId=ac9ab8128c0a48eebe7517e15d457ec7) Credit: Painting © 1974, Ken Marschall  The White Star luxury liners Titanic (left) and Olympic under construction at the Harland & Wolff shipyard, Belfast. Universal History Archive/Getty Images  Captain of the RMS Titanic, Commander Edward J. Smith, who went down with the ship when it sank on April 15th, 1912. Universal Images Group/Getty Images  The First Class Lounge on the RMS Titanic, photographed on January 4, 1912. Universal Images Group/Getty Images  First Class passenger list from RMS Titanic. London Express/Getty Images  Aboard the Titanic, six-year-old Robert Douglas Spedden, plays with a spinning top while his father, Frederic, looks on. Davison & Associates Ltd/Fr.fm Browne SJ Collection  The last wireless message sent by Titanic's radio operator, Jack Phillips, advising that the ship is "sinking fast" and passengers are being put into lifeboats. Father Browne/Universal Images Group/Getty Images  A Titanic lifeboat approaches the rescue ship Carpathia, April 15, 1912\. The Carpathia, which took on more than 700 survivors of the disaster, was herself sunk in 1918, during the first World War, by a German U-boat. Ralph White/Corbis  News of the Titanic disaster spreads in London on the day the ship went down, April 15, 1912. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS  Passengers aboard the Carpathia help survivors of the Titanic after plucking more than 700 out of lifeboats, April 1912. Universal Images Group/Getty Images  A crowd awaits the return of survivors of the Titanic disaster, Southampton, England, April 29, 1912. 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