Titanic

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

A mass funeral then a watery grave: Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea

This haunting black and white photograph taken on board the Mackay Bennett body recovery ship following the Titanic disaster shows a mass funeral for dozens of the dead being buried in the Atlantic Ocean. The image - which has been discovered a century on from the disaster in 1912 - shows body bags stacked on the windswept deck while two crewman tip up a stretcher to drop a victim over the side.