Recovered

A day at the Merseyside Maritime Museum. This bottle and decantar with the White Star Line logo are some of the objects salvaged from around the wreck of the Titanic. Many other personal objects are on display as part of the Titanic exhibition.

When the RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912, with the loss of 1,500 lives, she broke up as she plunged down into the depths. The bow and stern sections of the wreck lie 1,970 ft apart surrounded by debris scattered far and wide.

Numerous expeditions have been down to the wreck since Dr Bob Ballard first discovered it in 1985 after an exhaustive search. Many of these artefacts are on loan to the museum by The Liverpool and London Steamship Protection and Indemnity Association. The Association - based in Water Street, Liverpool, at the time - settled compensation claims from crew and passengers in the traumatic aftermath of the liner's sinking.