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

Stories abound about the heroic Newfoundland, Rigel, that helped saved passengers on the sinking Titanic. However, is this ...

The RMS Carpathia was over three hours away and came to rescue the stranded survivors. Of the roughly 2,200 people aboard the Titanic, only about 700 people made it into lifeboats. When the Titanic ...

Wikimedia CommonsThe last lifeboat to leave the doomed ship carries Titanic survivors to safety. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard the Titanic when it struck an iceberg and sank on ...

Thomas Andrews, the Titanic's designer, was on board and quickly realized the extent of the damage and alerted the captain. Within an hour, Captain Edward Smith ordered the lifeboats lowered into ...

Titanic is taking on water at an incredible rate. And as the ship goes down, she is guaranteed to take hundreds of victims with her. In the throes of desperation, as the lifeboats are readied ...

Antiques Roadshow expert valuer Hilary Kay encountered a supposed rowlock from one of RMS Titanic's 20 lifeboats during the latest episode. Brought to her by a lone gentleman at Beaumaris Castle ...

Before the Titanic sank, the windows were opened, probably to load lifeboats. Millionaire John Jacob Astor IV put his 18-year-old wife into lifeboat 4 through a promenade window on the other side ...

Many men did board the lifeboats and nearly 50% of survivors were male, although the vast majority of those on board the ship were men. Find out the different types of materials used when Titanic ...

The fourth was for show! Titanic crew had been warned about icebergs but the ship kept up speed to get to New York quickly. There were only twenty lifeboats on board Titanic. There were not enough ...