The 18-carat Tiffany & Co. watch was given by three women survivors to Capt. Arthur Rostron for diverting his passenger ship, the RMS Carpathia, to save them and others after the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic. ...
The CEO of the doomed Titanic exploration company whose submarine imploded, killing all five people onboard including him, eerily joked ‘what could go wrong?’ just weeks before the disaster. Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, gave an interview to St John’s Radio, a Canadian radio show ...
The Titanic Experience contains a number of originalTitanic,Harland and Wolff, and White Star Line artifacts. Although it contains a few items that were aboard theTitanicon its maiden voyage that have been donated or sold to the museum by survivors or their families, it does not contain any i...
The Wilhelm Gustloff is the unfortunate record holder with ~9,500 or so lives after being torpedoed by a Russian submarine in the Baltic during the final months of WWII in Europe. WWII in particular racked up several dozen losses that surpassed Titanic's death toll. Most were ocean liners ...