Many historical accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic describe the 882.5-foot-long passenger ship as “slipping beneath the ocean waves,” as though the vessel and its passengers drifted ...

Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd; Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty A letter written onboard the Titanic just days before the ship sank has sold for nearly $400,000 — far ...

Col. Archibald Gracie wrote the letter while traveling on the Titanic days before the ship sank and plunged him into the icy North Atlantic. By Amanda Holpuch Days before the Titanic struck an ...

A letter written onboard the Titanic just days before the ship sank has sold for nearly $400,000 — far surpassing auction expectations. Antique auctioneer Henry Aldridge & Son announced the sale ...

A lettercard written on the Titanic by one of the shipwreck’s best known survivors has sold for a whopping $399,000. The letter was written days before the ill-fated steamship tragically went ...

Exhibit A: the Navy’s colossal fumbling of the USS Iowa turret explosion ... Interpreted thus, the Iowa cataclysm was simply a murder-suicide on a titanic scale. It was an act of insanity ...

After 113 years, Titanic is still a source of innovation ... Stephenson is also the executive director of the nonprofit USS KIDD Veterans Museum, where he helps preserve the WWII-era destroyer ...

While Titanic Captain Edward John Smith’s official cause of death remains one of history’s enduring mysteries, author Dan E. Parkes has thrown cold water on theories that he took his own life ...

A man has been arrested following a crash resulting from a road rage incident on George Washington Memorial Highway in York County Tuesday, the York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office said. The city of ...

Watching the young men and women sailors scramble aboard the new USS Iowa submarine as ship sponsor Christie Vilsack announced, "Board our boat and bring her to life!" I wondered if they ...

Wendy Wintersteen is president of Iowa State University. Watching the young men and women sailors scramble aboard the new USS Iowa submarine as ship sponsor Christie Vilsack announced ...