The sinking of the Titanic has been recreated in Lego bricks.
The model has 12,847 bricks and took 113 hours to complete.
It depicts the moment the RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic.
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The model is the creation of Ryan McNaught who is a certified Lego professional.
It is one of a series of famous shipwrecks, or Brickwrecks, recreated with toy building blocks.
Others include the Uluburun, the world’s oldest known shipwreck, which was discovered off the coast of Turkey and dates back to the late Bronze Age.
That model contains 26,563 bricks and a further 20,659 for the scene in which it is set.
It took more than 250 hours to make.
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Nick Ball, of Historic Dockyard, Chatham, in Kent, where the models will be on display, said: “It’s not just historical wrecks that are recreated.
“A recent environmental disaster in 2011 caused by the wrecking of the cargo ship Rena features in the exhibition.
“The retelling of the story gave the team the chance to explain the oil spill, the wrecked cargo and share New Zealand’s worst maritime environmental disaster.”
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The Rena had been carrying 1,368 containers eight of which contained hazardous materials, as well as 1,700 tonnes of heavy fuel oil and 200 tonnes of marine diesel when it ran aground on a reef before breaking up and sinking.
It continues to be monitored today, as reported by What’s The Jam.
Luke Cini, lead builder on the Lego version of the Rena, said: “The first step is to research and gather images and inspiration for the project.
“It is important to have sufficient knowledge of what the subject matter is before beginning any design work.
“We had a flat piece of aluminium that we began the build on.
“This allowed us to start with a nice, solid, robust base.
“We mapped out where the Rena would sit and what pieces would work well with the angle we wanted the ship at.
“We found that having the ship on an angle of 75 degrees would fit perfectly with the factory Lego wedge plates, allowing us to neatly finish the edges of the ship into the water.
“We had a lot of fun adding in the small details once the main components of the build were complete.
“We included a block of cheese, which had fallen from the ship and which we had seen in a video.”
Paul Barnard, deputy chief executive at the dockyard, added: “Brickwrecks brilliantly combines creativity, maritime archaeology and engineering to bring the stories of eight legendary shipwrecks to life.
“Particularly relevant to the Historic Dockyard are the stories of HMS Terror and HMS Erebus which were refitted here at Chatham before joining the Ross Expedition in 1839 and later embarking on the fateful Franklin Expedition in 1845.”
The models will be on show from March 8 until the end of August.
The Titanic was the largest ocean liner in service at the time and was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City.
It had an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg.
She sank two hours and forty minutes later, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,500 people.
It was one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
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