A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of the richest man who died on the Titanic has gone up for auction. John Jacob Astor, 47, was the wealthiest man aboard the ship and would have been a ...

the Mackay-Bennett’s crew had recovered 306 Titanic victims’ bodies. Many were embalmed and transported to Halifax, but eventually the supplies were exhausted; the last 116 had to be buried at ...

The launch of Titanic in May 1911 was the peak of Belfast’s golden age of shipbuilding. Titanic was the largest man-made object ever to have taken to the seas. Harland and Wolff employed ...