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Rarely-seen items recovered from Titanic wreckage | BBC News   #Titanic #BBCNews Since the wreckage of the RMS Titanic was discovered in 1985, 73 years after it sank in the Atlantic Ocean, over 5,000 artefacts have been recovered.  Many of them are kept in a secret warehouse in Atlanta in the US state of Georgia, with access to view them very rare.  From handbags to perfume vials that still contain scent, these are just some of the thousands of items retrieved.  For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news   #Titanic #BBCNews bbc, bbc news, news, world news, breaking news, us news, world, america, usa, usa news, india news

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00:00Well, it is a tragedy that continues to fascinate. After more than a century, the Titanic hitting

00:05an iceberg and sinking in April 1912. The wreckage was only discovered in 1985. And

00:11since then, more than 5,000 artefacts have been retrieved from the bottom of the Atlantic

00:15Ocean. Many of them are kept in a warehouse in the US state of Georgia. Our science editor

00:20Rebecca Murrell has been given rare access. Relics from the most famous maritime disaster

00:27in history, from parts of the ship to passengers' belongings. Everything here is a reminder

00:34of a tragedy at sea more than 100 years ago. I can't reveal the location of where I am.

00:40All I can say is that this warehouse is somewhere in Atlanta, because what's inside here is

00:45incredibly precious. Thousands of items recovered from the Titanic, and every single one of

00:51them tells a story. This is a really beautiful little fashionable bag, and it belonged to

00:58Marianne Meanwell. She was a 63-year-old milliner, which means she did all the little detail

01:02work on hats and dresses. And she was travelling to the US to be with her daughter, who was

01:07recently widowed. Inside it was a medical card. All third-class passengers had to show

01:13they weren't bringing disease into the US. But it also reveals a twist of fate. What's

01:19really interesting is that we can see she was originally supposed to sail on the Majestic.

01:23She actually got rerouted onto Titanic. So unlucky. The Titanic sank in 1912 and lies

01:32at the bottom of the Atlantic. All of the items were recovered from a debris field that

01:37surrounds the wreck, where the contents of the ship spilled out as it split apart. Titanic

01:43was on her maiden voyage, travelling from Southampton to the US when she hit an iceberg.

01:48The ship, made from thousands of thick steel plates, was thought to be unsinkable.

01:53These are rivets. They held each of the layers of the hull overlapping together to form the

02:01exterior structure. So there were over three million of these on the ship. There was a

02:05theory that they were using substandard materials. So maybe the rivets weren't made of the best

02:11material, for example. Yeah, there were high concentrates of slag in these, which is like

02:16a glass-like material that makes them maybe a little bit more brittle in the cold. But

02:20if one of the rivet heads popped off easier, then it could have allowed the seam to open

02:25up where the iceberg hit easier and made it bigger than it otherwise would have been.

02:31Some items also show how life on board differed for the social classes, from a sturdy and

02:36simple third-class cup to delicate and detailed china for first class. The items retrieved

02:43are put on display in exhibitions around the world. RMS Titanic Inc. have the only

02:48salvage rights to the ship. What do they say to those who think the wreck's a gravesite

02:53that should be left alone? Titanic is something that we want to respect and we want to make

02:58sure that we're preserving the memory because not everyone can go down to Titanic, not everyone

03:02can go to the ship, and we want to be able to bring that to the public.

03:07The company's latest expedition has identified more objects they'd like to bring back. Who

03:12knows what they'll find, and the tales each item may tell. Rebecca Murrell, BBC News,

03:18Atlanta, Georgia.

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