A grand staircase under a large iron-and-glass dome and illuminated by a 50-light ... the author of Key Figures Aboard RMS Titanic, said: “The original ship had just four lifts – three for ...
Major Prentice, interviewed in 1966, describes his flight from the RMS Titanic following her fatal collision with an iceberg. He relates how some women refused to leave their husbands despite ...
Few ships have been as unlucky as the RMS Titanic, sinking as she did on the night of April 15, 1912 after raking across an iceberg on her maiden voyage, and no ship has grabbed as much popular ...
On April 2, 1912, the renowned Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff had completed the required sea trials on their latest ...
"This is a great opportunity for people to touch the Titanic. This is a plate from the hull," President of RMS Titanic Inc. Tomasina Ray said. "It's amazing to be able to bring these artifacts to ...
The RMS Titanic Inc. has held eight recovery expeditions to the Titanic’s wreck, retrieving over 5,500 artifacts from the Atlantic Ocean site. Over 200 of those artifacts are now part of ...
The jewel-encrusted edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was taken aboard the RMS Titanic and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, exactly 110 years ago. A replacement was finished at ...
Irene S. Levine is an award-winning travel and lifestyle journalist. The April 14, 1912 sinking of RMS Titanic during her maiden voyage has been memorialized in scores of films and books for more ...
James Cameron's romantic disaster drama film Titanic (1997) is based on a true event from 1912, when a large British ship, the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after hitting a giant iceber ...
When she first sailed, Olympic was the largest ship in the world, only to be replaced by the Titanic with 46,328 GRT, the result of adding a steel enclosure to her A deck promenade. Today ...
The dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy, was completed in 1436. Its supple curves and innovative engineering are a monument to the genius of Filippo Brunelleschi.