One man’s Titanic task re-mastered

THEY have been used to solve the mystery of her sinking, debunk theories about why it happened and make a Hollywood blockbuster.

Now the last photographs of the doomed Titanic taken by one of Ireland’s greatest documentary photographers have been digitally re-mastered to mark the 100th anniversary of her sinking.

Fr Eddie O’Donnell, the Jesuit priest who discovered Fr Frank Browne’s remarkable Titanic images amongst a vast collection of some 42,000 negatives, said the experts who worked on them have described them as the best pictures of Titanic the world will have ever seen.