The 'Titanic' sinking became the most infamous shipwreck in history—but what really happened on that unusually calm night in ...

She had inaugurated this new great class of ships of which the Titanic was the second. So her departure was not attended by pomp and state and ceremony. The ship herself wasn't even full.

A handwritten note by Richard William Smith, a British businessman who perished in the disaster, is heading to the auction block, where it could sell for up to $12,600 Sonja Anderson The Shipwreck ...

The Titanic exhibition in Ludwigsburg, Germany, has a little over a month left in its present location. The traveling ...

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 ...

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 scuttling of the government's latest legal battle isn't necessarily the end of RMS Titanic Inc.'s attempts to enter the rapidly deteriorating ocean liner or to fetch more historic objects.

More than a century after the Titanic's tragic sinking, the public's fascination with its history remains strong.