Tragic faces of Titanic seen in colour for the first time - from a traumatised widow to the lookout who took his own life after being taunted for failing to spot the iceberg in time

Tragic faces of Titanic seen in colour for the first time - from a traumatised widow to the lookout who took his own life after being taunted for failing to spot the iceberg in time Colourised images of Titanic have featured in a new two-part Channel 4 series READ MORE: Incredible colorised images show luxury aboard the Titanic By Jonathan Mayo Published: 16:29 BST, 12 August 2024 | Updated: 17:49 BST, 12 August 2024 e-mail 15 shares 57 View comments For over a century, we’ve been gripped by the story of Titanic but it’s a story often told in black and white. Yet the pride of the White Star Line fleet was a blaze of colour with vivid green furniture, rose-coloured carpets and a hull trimmed with gleaming gold paint. Now, the monochrome photographs of what was the largest moving object on the planet when she launched on May 31, 1911, have been colourised using the latest 21st Century techniques for a new two-part Channel 4 series, Titanic In Colour, which promises to transform the way we see the doomed ship and her ill-fated passengers.

The images are a pertinent reminder of the immense human tragedy which ruined countless lives when Titanic sank on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on 15 April, 1912, with an estimated 2,224 people on board - and only 20 lifeboats. While 1,500 people lost their lives, survivors were forever haunted by the disaster, particularly lookout Frederick Fleet, one of at least 11 survivors who took their own lives in the aftermath. Mea.