Titanic Coloring Pages

The Titanic fascinates children the way few historical subjects do: a ship as long as three football fields, with a grand staircase, a swimming pool and four tall funnels, on its first voyage across the Atlantic in April 1912. These Titanic coloring pages tour the whole ship, from the shipyard where it was built to the crow's nest where the lookouts watched the sea.

The ship itself appears from every angle: being built in the shipyard behind scaffolding, leaving port pulled by tugboats, sailing toward the viewer with seagulls overhead, crossing a calm sea under a crescent moon, seen from above with its decks and funnels, from behind with its propellers and wake, and from below where a rowboat sits beside the towering bow. A simpler cartoon liner on the waves suits the youngest children, and a crowd waves goodbye from the dock while a family waves back from the rail.

Inside, the pages visit the rooms that made the Titanic famous: the grand staircase under its glass dome, a first class cabin with a brass bed and a steamer trunk, the dining saloon laid for dinner, the café with its wicker chairs and the galley with its pots and stacks of plates. Below decks, the giant steam engines fill the engine room and stokers shovel coal into the furnaces. The crew is at work everywhere: the ship's captain in his uniform, a steward polishing the brass, the wireless operator's room with its headphones and dials, the ship's wheel on the bridge and a lookout with binoculars in the crow's nest at night. Luggage waits on a cart, deck chairs are folded against the rail, a lifeboat hangs from its davit, and icebergs float in the North Atlantic. For older colorists there is a cross section showing every deck from the Boat Deck down to the orlop, a mandala of a ship's wheel and compass roses and a border of anchors and rope.

The story of the Titanic

The RMS Titanic was built in Belfast and was the largest ship afloat when it set sail from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, bound for New York. On the night of April 14, it struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank early the next morning. There were not enough lifeboats for everyone on board, and more than 1,500 people lost their lives. The disaster changed the rules of the sea: ships had to carry enough lifeboats for every passenger and keep a radio watch day and night.

These pages show the ship as it was, alive and busy, and leave the sinking out. For a classroom, they make a gentle way into the history: color the ship, then talk about why people traveled on it and what changed after.

Colors of the Titanic

The ship had a simple, striking livery:

• A black hull with a thin gold line along the top.
• A white superstructure, the decks and cabins above the hull.
• Buff (pale orange-yellow) funnels with black tops.
• A red band at the waterline, just visible above the sea.

Inside, first class was all rich wood, gold and deep reds, while the engine and boiler rooms were gray steel and orange firelight.

A simple ship or the whole liner

The cartoon ship, the captain and the ship's wheel are good for younger children. Quick to color, above the grid, begins with:

• Icebergs
• Cartoon ship
• Moonlit crossing

The grand staircase, the dining saloon and the deck cross section are packed with fine detail for older children and adults. Lots of detail begins with:

• Grand staircase
• Café
• Galley

Printing

Every page is a free A4 PDF drawn at 300 dpi. A4 prints at full size, and on US Letter "fit to page" shrinks the drawing by about six percent so nothing is cut off. The printing guide shows the setting. Add to pack prints the whole voyage at once. More sea adventures are in the ocean coloring pages and the pirate coloring pages, and more ways to travel in the train coloring pages and the airplane coloring pages.