A pocket watch recovered from the body of one of the richest passengers on the Titanic, and which stopped at the very moment the ship sank, has fetched a staggering sum at auction (via BBC). The ...

Nov. 23 (UPI) --A gold pocket watch owned by Isidor Straus, a first-class passenger who died with his wife when the famed ship sank, has sold for $2.3 million at auction. Straus, a German-born ...

A well-respected emigrant, this Limerick man had lived in Chicago for nine years and was returning to the US when tragedy struck on April 15, 1912. On April 15, 1912, the Belfast-built RMS Titanic ...

Contributor Jackie Sheckler Finch visited the Titanic cemetery in Halifax during a Holland America Zuiderdam shore excursion. This fascinating visit to the site where most of the victims are buried ...