Snapshot: Pulling a Body from the Water

This photo shows a boat from the Mackay-Bennett retrieving the body of a Titanic passenger following the disaster. This gruesome task went on for many days until - loaded with nearly 200 victims - the ship sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Many of these bodies were eventually buried in local cemeteries.

Snapshot: Embalming Aboard the Mackay-Bennett

This image shows the body of a Titanic passenger being embalmed on the deck of the Mackay-Bennett, which pulled nearly 300 bodies from the water in the weeks following the disaster (though at least 100 of them were buried at sea - decomposition had rendered identification useless).