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Detailed explanation-1: -Investigative journalist and Titanic expert Senan Molony examines recently unearthed photographs of the launch and maiden voyage of RMS Titanic that may shed new light on the disaster.

Detailed explanation-2: -Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.

Detailed explanation-3: -The RMS Titanic, a luxury steamship, sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic after sideswiping an iceberg during its maiden voyage. Of the 2, 240 passengers and crew on board, more than 1, 500 lost their lives in the disaster.

Detailed explanation-4: -Final calls and sinking Around 1:45 a.m., Cottam received Titanic’s final intelligible message: “Come as quickly as possible, old man, the engine room is filling up to the boilers.” He replied that “all our boats were ready and we were coming as hard as we could come” but received no further response.

Detailed explanation-5: -The film portrayed the Titanic’s owner Joseph Bruce Ismay as a coward for abandoning the ship while others perished. Now descendants of Ismay, who have never been interviewed before, have spoken out to try to clear his name, 100 years after the disaster.