A digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insight into the doomed liner’s final hours, including how engineers kept the lights on until the last moment.

The exact 3D replica shows the violence of how the ship ripped in two as it sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912, killing 1,500 people in the disaster.

The scan also provides a new view of a boiler room, confirming eye-witness accounts that engineers worked right to the end to keep the ship’s lights on.

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