RMS Titanic facts: Our ultimate guide to the 1912 disaster & those who survived it

See what it looked like inside the Titanic – the interiors of fancy lounges, dining rooms, first-class cabins and other luxurious delights – before the ship sunk to the ocean floor on her maiden voyage in 1912.

How was the Titanic ship laid out inside? Check out several different Titanic cross-section views, and get an idea of the size and the layout of the doomed vessel.

Here are some front pages of newspapers around the country, showing very first breaking Titanic news on the night she sank. There was very little information available at the time, and some news reports were, sadly (but unsurprisingly), riddled with errors.

Thousands in dire peril on the Atlantic. Largest vessel afloat reported sinking head down; women put off in boats

Woman and children saved; men stay to die; pitiful scenes as news is awaited; world’s most noted names among “missing”

The last faint hopes lingered in the hearts of many that more than the 868 survivors of the wreck of the Titanic carried by the Carpathia had been saved by some of the other vessels that hastened to answer the great White Star liner’s call of distress...

This is film footage from 1912 that was incorporated into a newsreel to show to moviegoers shortly after the Titanic disaster.

The Titanic was one of the most luxurious, well-appointed cruise liners ever, with seemingly no expense spared… except when it came to passenger safety in the event of an emergency. Artists had a lot to say about the lack of sufficient lifeboats and White Star Line's culpability.

Two surviving members of Titanic’s crew place blame for tragedy on White Star Line officials and officers of the boat, claiming that they had ignored warnings of the iceberg sighting

On the day following the Titantic disaster, experts considered whether fog or mist obscured the deadly iceberg from view.

...but after just a few days, as accounts from survivors and other crews that had been in the area that night started coming in, opinions on this matter had shifted.

Tales of courage about people who died on the Titanic fascinate us to this day. Here are a few stories about some of the ship's most prominent passengers in those final terrifying moments.

Below are several chapters from a book that was issued the same year as the Titanic disaster, and was called simply Titanic. While many aspects of the story as published were based on interviews and official reports, the author, Filson Young, filled in any gaps in the narrative as best he could, with a blend of conjecture and creativity.

Fleeing the sinking ship in lifeboats, many Titanic survivors were saved by the first rescue ship on the scene. See how it happened, and what it was like when they finally made it to New York.

These graphic accounts of the terrible scenes aboard the Titanic after it struck the iceberg and of the hardships endured by the survivors before they were rescued are related by men who reached port on the rescue ship, Carpathia.

Below are terrifying and telling sketches of the Titanic’s last moments, drawn by Lewis P Skidmore, who was a passenger on the rescue ship Carpathia

Charlotte Collyer lived through the tragic disaster the world remembers more than 100 years later. Here, read about what happened in this dramatic and compelling first-person account from a Titanic survivor.

In 1912, people offered a generous and spontaneous outpouring of aid and encouragement to Mrs Collyer and her daughter, who were saved from the Titanic. Unfortunately, however, not all survivor stories have happy endings.

This 1962 retrospective, which was written on the 50th anniversary of the Titanic sinking, summarizes the events of that April night with the benefit of decades of hindsight and investigations.