Gallery: Fr Browne's Titanic Album

Updated: 16:43, Thursday, 24 November 2011

Fr Frank Browne's Titanic Album is being launched in Cork. View some of the historic images. (All images courtesy of The Father Browne SJ Collection)

  • Porters waiting for employment to transfer mail
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    Porters waiting for employment to transfer mail

  • A US doctor inspects eyes. No passenger suffering from contagious diseases was permitted to travel
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    A US doctor inspects eyes. No passenger suffering from contagious diseases was permitted to travel

  • One of the formalities of the port involved lifeboat drill and the inspection of life-jackets
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    One of the formalities of the port involved lifeboat drill and the inspection of life-jackets

  • American ladies disembarking from the tender America
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    American ladies disembarking from the tender America

  • Steerage passengers getting settled on the Titanic's deck
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    Steerage passengers getting settled on the Titanic's deck

  • First class passengers, such as TW McCawley, could enjoy the use of the ship's gym
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    First class passengers, such as TW McCawley, could enjoy the use of the ship's gym

  • Queenstown vendors had franchises to sell Irish lace and other souvenirs aboard the transatlantic liners
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    Queenstown vendors had franchises to sell Irish lace and other souvenirs aboard the transatlantic liners

  • Six-year-old Robert Douglas Spedden of New York, spinning a top while his father, Frederic, watches. Both survived the sinking
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    Six-year-old Robert Douglas Spedden of New York, spinning a top while his father, Frederic, watches. Both survived the sinking

  • One of Fr Browne's last photos of Titanic, taken at Queenstown (Cobh) on 11 April 1912
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    One of Fr Browne's last photos of Titanic, taken at Queenstown (Cobh) on 11 April 1912

  • Fr Frank Browne was ordered by his superior to disembark at Cobh
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    Fr Frank Browne was ordered by his superior to disembark at Cobh