Now, a new study has suggested that interference from the Northern Lights that fateful night may have contributed to the ship ...

When the RMS Carpathia came to their rescue around 4:00 a.m., it took an additional 4.5 hours to move everyone from the lifeboats onto the ship. These photos show how the Carpathia saved a ...

When the supposedly unsinkable 'Titanic' went down on April 15, 1912, the Halifax-based ship 'Mackay-Bennett' was assigned to ...

The RMS Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 — almost 113 years ago — after it hit an iceberg. The RMS Carpathia was over three hours away and came to rescue the stranded survivors. Of the roughly 2,200 ...

The correspondence provides a crucial glimpse into the immediate response to one of history's most infamous maritime wrecks.

The Esso Northumbria was the first in a series of Very Large Crude Carrier ships, built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend in 1969. At the time, she was the largest vessel to have been built in Britain.

It was April 15, 111 years ago, when the famed RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Most history enthusiasts know the backstory of the Titanic, the “unsinkable” ship that set sail on ...