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 vessel's first stop after leaving Southampton. Ironically her bravery ...

The Titanic band continued to play as the ship went down, offering solace to both those fleeing the ship, and those doomed to ...

A lettercard penned by one of the Titanic’s most well-known survivors from onboard the ship, days before it sank, has sold for £300,000 ($399,000) at auction. In the note, written to the seller ...

When the Titanic was sinking, he boarded a rescue boat with his wife and secretary, which was occupied by only twelve people and helped no one.

After their September 1911 marriage and extended honeymoon in Europe and Egypt, they boarded the Titanic on April 10 in Cherbourg, France. Before his 1912 death, Astor, who owned New York’s ...