Classic pictures from the Titanic, for your amusement

Slideshow. Don't bother. Here are the highlights.

Launching. Notice the teenage girl internet abbreviation at the bottom. Someone knew. Someone knew.

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First class ticket, costing $4,350. In 1912. Jack's ticket was $30, in case you were wondering - still a lot in 1912.

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14 years before the Titanic’s maiden voyage, author Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility, which was about the largest ship in the world hitting an iceberg. The ship in the fictional story was called the Titan. Sound familiar?

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John Jacob Astor, teh wealthiest passenger, died. His wife and child survived.



Only 60 of the 421 crew members survived. All of the bellboys were killed.



Famous staircase.



“Well boys, do your best for the women and children, and look out for yourself.”



Not enough life boats, and it was hard to get onto the ones they had, what with The Unsinkable Molly Brown beating people over the head with paddles.



Picture often cited as being the iceberg, but is not in fact the iceberg.



The orchestral players.



Nobel Prize winner, and inventor of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi decided to travel on the Lusitania (the "safe" ship) instead of the Titanic.



Awaiting survivors



Elizabeth Gladys Millvina Dean (right), the Titanic’s youngest surviving passenger, died in 2009.





The ticket to take a private party down to the wreckage costs $59,000 per person. Anyone can take the plunge through a private company called Deep Ocean Expeditions.



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