Surviving "Titanic" crew members wear warm, dry clothes that read "White Star Line," which was the name of the shipping company that owned the sunken vessel.

Even though it was women and children first into the lifeboats during the sinking of the Titanic, some crew members did survive the infamous meeting of steel and ice. The 1912 image above, from the International News Service, shows surviving crew members who had been transported to New York City wearing warm, dry clothes they had just been given. An excerpt about the Titanic‘s tragic maiden voyage from the New York Times article, “Biggest Liner Plunges to the Bottom at 2:20 A.M.“:

“The White Star liner Olympic reports by wireless this evening that the Cunarder Carpathia reached, at daybreak this morning, the position from which wireless calls for help were sent out last night by the Titanic after her collision with an iceberg. The Carpathia found only the lifeboats and the wreckage of what had been the biggest steamship afloat.

The Titanic had foundered at about 2:20 A.M., in latitude 41:16 north and longitude 50:14 west…all her boats are accounted for and about 655 souls have been saved of the crew and passengers, most of the latter presumably women and children.

There were about 2,100 persons aboard the Titanic.“