A postcard written by a first-class passenger on the Titanic will go up for auction later this month. Richard William Smith, a British businessman, scrawled a message in pencil to a Mrs Olive ...
The gold watch was given to the captain of the Carpathia, the ship that responded to the Titanic’s distress call and rescued hundreds of people. By Victor Mather It’s a fine gold Tiffany ...
Titanic was the biggest ship on the sea when she was launched in May 1911. She was as tall as Nelson's Column in London. Workers used 22 tonnes of soap to make sure Titanic could slip into the ...
Captain of the HMS Caparthian, Arthur Rostron, saved 700 Titanic passengers when the ship ... to him by Mrs Astor and two other widows of high-profile and wealthy businessmen, who were also ...
“Titanic had just stopped in Queenstown to take ... Captain Rostron was held in by the widows of three of the most high-profile businessmen who died, John Jacob Astor, George Dunton Widener ...
LONDON — A gold pocket watch given to the ship captain who rescued 700 survivors from the Titanic sold at auction for nearly US$2 million, setting a record for memorabilia from the ship wreck.