A collection of jewellery discovered aboard the RMS Titanic is set to go on display for the first time.

Fifteen items, including fashion rings, pendants, sapphires and pearls, will be shown to the public for the very first time in exhibitions across the United States.

The jewellery was salvaged during the 1987 research mission in the sunken Titanic, but is being displayed only now in order to mark the 100-year anniversary of it sinking.

Alexandra Klingelhofer, who is vice-president of collections for the RMS Titanic, believes that they will provide a fascinating insight into the wonders of exploration.

She told telegraph.co.uk: “Going down two and a half miles below the ocean, recovering a bag, bringing it back up and opening it and finding… jewellery. We’re able to give them a glimpse of how it must have been to have opened that for the first time and to see, together, the beautiful jewellery of the Edwardian period.”

According to tvnz.co.nz, the jewellery was found in a leather bag which is thought to have been in the care of a ship’s purser.

Klingelhofer believes that the purser could have removed the jewellery from a safe as the ship was sinking so that he could attempt to return it to the owners.

The jewellery will go on display in Atlanta from November 16th, before the exhibition travels to Orlando and Las Vegas.