Today marks the 109th anniversary of the sinking of the "unsinkable" Titanic. Over 1,500 people lost their lives in that tragedy. Back in 2012, on the 100th anniversary, I bought one of those Life Magazine special editions commemorating that event, titled Titanic: The Tragedy that Shook the World. Many of the photographs in that book were taken by a Dublin theology student named Frank Browne. As a gift, his uncle bought him passage on the Titanic for the first legs of it's journey, from Southhampton to Cherbourg to Queenstown, and Browne took many photographs of life on board, including the one above. While on the ship, he befriended a millionaire, who offered to pay his passage to America, but Browne's Jesuit superior refused to approve the time off. Thus, both he and his photographs survived. Talk about a lucky break.
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