Madeleine Astor was 18 and pregnant when the Titanic went down; she remarried twice and enjoyed a life of privilege, ...

Margaret Brown was a wealthy American socialite who boarded the Titanic as a first class passenger at Cherbourg, France, the ...

Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: "It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her." ...

Titanic survivor Archibald Gracie's 1912 lettercard sells for £300,000 ($399,000), six times the expected price.

This Arthur Ford, 23, boarded the Titanic on April 10 as a third-class passenger. When the “Star Gazette” published a list of third class passengers and crew rescued by the Carpathia on ...

After the Titanic's final plunge into the icy North Atlantic, Astor went down with it. Madeleine survived. She was among hundreds rescued by the RMS Carpathia; one crew member said he’d never ...

The missive from the doomed ship read, “It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her.” ...

The Titanic struck an iceberg just before midnight ... They eventually reached a rescue ship, R.M.S. Carpathia. “The hours that elapsed before we were picked up by the Carpathia were the longest ...

The nation waited impatiently as the steamship Carpathia, carrying most of those who had survived the Titanic, steamed from the sinking site to New York harbor, going radio silent at times as it ...

was rescued by other passengers onboard a lifeboat and was taken to the R.M.S. Carpathia. He went on to write “The Truth about the Titanic,” an account of his experiences, when he returned to ...