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 ...

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 ...

When the RMS Carpathia ... were hearing the Titanic, sending her wireless out over the sea in a last call for help," Cottam told The New York Times in 1912. Another ship, the Olympic, also heard ...

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 ...