Third class passengers weren’t offered a choice of menu, but they had freshly baked bread and fruit every day. Some first-class staterooms even had shared bathrooms. It offered cycling machines, an electric horse and camel and a rowing machine. But the liner's collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on 14 April and the loss of over 1,500 lives marked the end of an era.

First-class passengers could visit the Moorish-inspired suite for the price of $1 a day. Plans were first laid for the Titanic (and her near-identical sister ships the Olympic and Britannic) in 1907 by the White Star Line. The iceberg that sank Titanic would have been up to a mile long, displacing around a billion tonnes of seawater.It would have taken the iceberg over a year to edge its way down the 40-mile fjord.

One will be the star attraction at the In April 2012 Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer announced his plan to build Titanic II, a near-to-scale seaworthy reproduction at an estimated cost of $500 million (£396m). Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. It was stuck in the bottleneck at the shallow mouth of the Ilulissat fjord.

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The 100-foot long (30m) first-class dining saloon could be found on D Deck between the second and third funnels. Pictured is the Veranda café and Palm Court, the perfect place for afternoon tea.

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© Unknown author/Public domain/via Wikimedia Commons Those in the lifeboats would have witnessed the noisy horror of the ship sinking. For example this smoking room included wooden benches and chairs, plus a tiled floor. Sadly all this opulence was destined to meet a watery end when, at 11.40pm on 14 April, the Titanic collided with an iceberg. The dining salon had white enameled walls and tables were communal, meaning little privacy for passengers. © George Rinhart/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images Director James Cameron’s team did 12 visits to the site in 1995 while making the film Titanic. Can't make it to the bottom of the sea? Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article.

Costs were lavish at the time – around $7.4 million (£1.5m) in total, around $192 million (£147m) in today's money. It was the Titanic's crew who took the biggest hit: of 900 staff, 720 were from Southampton, England and only 124 returned.

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Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. The story of Titanic is a well-known one, with exhaustive detail available on everything from the construction of the ship in Belfast's shipyards to the decomposing wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic.Despite such all-consuming coverage, one major player in the disaster is often overlooked - the iceberg that sank Titanic.Photo: An iceberg close to the site of Titanic's sinking, 15 April 1912Ice Engineer Claude Daley explains how icebergs change personality at sea. Playing next. Overall there were just 706 survivors. Lego Titanic Iceberg Scene is a lego version of the famous 'Iceberg Scene' from the smash hit film, "Titanic". Gatti had been poached from upmarket Oddenino's Imperial Restaurant on Regent Street, London to run the Titanic's high-end spots.