Titanic: One hundred years later

It could be the blockbuster film, the human angle or technology’s limits. Nowhere does it resonate more than in Halifax, Canada, where some of the victims are buried.

Some disaster victims’ bodies pulled from the sea came to rest in Halifax, which honors the dead.

Survivors landed in NYC. Retracing their steps a century later gives a sense of old and new Manhattan.

May 31, 1911: Titanic, part of the White Star Line, is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland; interior work begins soon after.