The U.S inquiry was headed by Senator William Alden Smith and the British one by Lord Mersey. The surviving passengers and the very crew who managed to escape from the clutches of death gave their versions of the tragedy and the investigations were concluded quickly, though the initial question...
Events like the Holocaust and many of the battle are well-known for the number of the deaths they caused, but one event remains relatively unknown even though it has a high death count: the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. The cruise liner held 10,500 civilians and troops before it sunk ...
In 1964, thirty-two years after her death, a musical 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' was made based on her life story - where a poor, uneducated, mountain girl leaves her mountain cabin in search of a wealthy husband, respect and a better life. The character of Molly was played by Debbie...
The wrongful death lawsuit comes almost a year after French explorer Paul Henri-Nargeolet and four others died in the disaster. Aug 8, 2024 Titanic mission aims to document artifacts and create 3D model RMS Titanic Inc. plans to use remotely operated vehicles to capture high-resolution images ...
On April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before.
Frank came to New York in September 1909 and returned to Germany in 1911, after his father’s death. Straus and Frank remained friends, even vacationing with their families in Switzerland in 1928, and when Frank needed help to try to get his family out of Holland in 1941, he wrote to ...
. Other women were crowding behind me; but I stumbled to my feet and saw over their heads my husband’s back, as he walked steadily down the deck and disappeared among the men. His face was turned away, so that I never saw it again; but I know that he went unafraid to his death...
I have seen the death toll, about 1500 people died on the Titanic the night of the disaster. Only 700 survive, and your family is not a part of that. The hull steel, failed rivets, and there were also flaws in the watertight compartments of the Titanic. The Titanic suffered from ...
Here she was, the prize of modern technology, the "unsinkable Titanic", on her death plunge. Within seconds, the last of her stern disappeared beneath the sea. Then, "MGY" was silent forever, along with some 1,500 people. So ended the Titanic tragedy. So began her noted place in ...
Now, more than a century after the Titanic went down, experts are still debating the possible causes of this historic disaster that took the lives of more than 1,500 passengers and crew. Most of them agree that only a combination of circumstances can fully explain what doomed the supposedly ...