The Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, had two sister ships almost identical in size and luxury: ...

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

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 ...

Violet Jessop settled into her bunk on the Titanic, where she worked as a stewardess. She flipped through some magazines, ...

Instead, the RMS Carpathia responded to the Titanic's distress call and changed ... Another ship, the Olympic, also heard the distress calls but was over 500 miles away, according to The Irish ...

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 ...

Titanic's full title was RMS Titanic as it was a Royal Mail ship carrying nearly 3500 sacks of mail including all sorts of letters and packages. Titanic's construction cost was £1.5 million ...

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 ...

the RMS Olympic,” commented Ciro Galeno Jr., the museum’s executive director. He continued: “Visiting schoolchildren almost always ask what we have on display related to the Titanic ...