Bronze relief panel at the Society Headquarters.

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Reproduction of the clock that was on the Grand Staircase of the Titanic.

One of the current exhibits concerns the Titanic discovery and it's relationship to a secret Navy mission to observe the wreckage of the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion. Robert Ballard was commissioned by the Navy to study the wrecks with the cover story of searching for the Titanic.

The exhibit was developed in collaboration with the National Archives and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, “Titanic” reveals the remarkable—and long-classified—story behind the historic discovery.

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Reproduction of tile work from the Turkish Bath on the Titanic.

Robert Ballard is outspokenly opposed to any salvage operations at the wreck and this exhibit relies on items that were either carried off the ship by survivors of retrieved on the surface after the wreck.

There were also exhibited part of the set and some of the costumes from the film. Interesting in themselves they would make an interesting separate exhibit on Titanic fantasy fiction.

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Thermos and cup

After waking from the noise of panic outside their cabin, a steward told the West family to dress and put on life belts. "After seeing us safely into the lifeboat," Ada West recalled," Arthur returned to the cabin for a thermos of hot milk, and finding the lifeboat let down he reached it by means of a rope, gave the flask to me, and, with farewell returned to the deck of the ship." Ada and the children never saw him again.

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The deck chair to the right came from the rescue ship Carpathia.

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