Titanic passenger's postcard fetches £20,000
An "extremely rare" postcard written by a Titanic passenger who died after the liner hit an iceberg on 14 April 1912 has fetched £20,000 at auction. First-class passenger Richard William Smith wrote ...
Inside the tragic sinking of a tech mogul’s $40M superyacht off Sicily
Tech mogul Mike Lynch, his teenage daughter Hannah and five others died when his $40 million luxury superyacht sank off the ...
AP PHOTOS: 1,000 days of war in Ukraine captured in images
A thousand days of war in Ukraine have been captured in stunning images, many of them horrifying, some of them poignant, ...
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Before the Titanic Sank, a Cheerful Passenger Wrote in a Postcard That He Was ‘Leaving for the Land of Stars and Stripes’
A handwritten note by Richard William Smith, a British businessman who perished in the disaster, is heading to the auction ...
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How SS United States, bigger than Titanic, will become world's largest artificial reef
The SS United States, a long-retired and once-glamorous ocean liner bigger than the Titanic and the fastest ever to cross ... The vessel will spend a year there in preparation for its sinking in the ...
The Only Woman Who Went Down with the Titanic and Survived
Did you know there was a woman who went down with the Titanic and lived to tell the tale? Her name was Violet Jessop, and she was a stewardess on the ship. When the Titanic hit the iceberg, she helped ...
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‘TITANIC’ exhibition now open in Boston: An exclusive look at historic artifacts
On April 2, 1912, the renowned Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff had completed the required sea trials on their latest ...