The lettercard, penned by one of the Titanic’s best-known survivors just days before the steamship sank, smashed estimates to sell for £300,000 ($399,000) at a UK auction.

Col. Archibald Gracie wrote the letter while traveling on the Titanic days before the ship sank and plunged him into the icy ...

On April 14, just before midnight, the 882-foot ship struck an iceberg, sparking a chain of events that would lead to one of ...

Cork is forever linked with the fateful maiden voyage of the Titanic - being the final port of call for the infamous steamship before it sank in the freezing Atlantic Ocean three days later, with the ...

Rescuers only recovered the bodies of 337 of the 1,500-plus passengers and crew who died in the disaster. Around one-third of ...

Launched in 1940, the Yamato-class battleships were the largest and heaviest ever constructed. Japan built them to project ...

Over 1,500 people died when the RMS Titanic sank on April 14-15, 1912, following its fateful collision with an iceberg in one of the most notorious maritime disasters in history.

As the Titanic’s final port of call, Cobh holds a deep historical connection to the ill-fated liner, remaining an important place of remembrance for Titanic enthusiasts and the descendants of ...

Berth 44 — from which “Titanic” set off ... a technology that allows us to plug into the electric grid while in port and switch off our engines. This cuts greenhouse gas emissions and ...

Days before the Titanic struck an iceberg, a first-class passenger, Col. Archibald Gracie, described the vessel in a letter written while on board: "It is a fine ship but I shall await my journey's ...