Are we on the Titanic or the Olympic? That's the question New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik asks in his piece "Two Ships," as he looks at the last time Western civilization went from '13 to '14. Gopnik is ...

The luxury liner was requisitioned as a hospital ship during World War I. Thirty people died after the vessel struck a German ...

Today I Found Out about Violet Jessop, “Miss Unsinkable,” the woman who survived the sinking of the sister ships the Titanic and the Britannic, and was also aboard the third of the trio of Olympic ...

NEW YORK, April 17, 1912 (UP) -- All hope that the list of survivors of the shipwrecked Titanic would be increased by rescues made by the liners Virginian and Parisian was blasted early this morning ...

— -- In the summer of 1907, J. Bruce Ismay, chairman of The White Star Line, decided he had a problem. As the number of people migrating to the USA from Europe was reaching record highs, he was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In 1912, Richard Norris Williams survived ...

James Cameron opted to dispense with the bad news first. “Firstly,” the acclaimed director told Hollywood moguls who’d gathered to discuss his latest project, “this will be the most expensive movie ...

Until Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka won the mixed-doubles gold medal at these London Games, that division of tennis competition hadn't appeared at the Olympics since 1924. That year, the one who ...