A cruise ship that departed Nov. 15 from Galveston hit a snag Wednesday in Cozumel, Mexico. While docked in the beachy ...

Isidor and Ida Straus are remembered as two of the highest-profile victims of the Titanic disaster. More than a century after ...

The new record for Straus’s watch surpassed the £1.56 million paid last year for a gold pocket watch presented to the Carpathia’s captain, suggesting what the auction house described as sustained inte ...

A gold pocket watch recovered from an elderly couple who drowned during the sinking of the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking £1.78m (€2m) at auction. It was the highest amount ever paid for ...

Gold pocket watch belonging to iconic couple depicted in Titanic movie up for sale - Isidor Straus had been given the watch ...

The U.K. Ministry of Defense has ended the search for a crew member who fell overboard from a Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker off Ireland's northwest coast. The crew member was last seen late ...

A gold pocket watch belonging to Isidor Straus, a wealthy Macy's co-owner who perished on the Titanic, has sold for a record ...

In the days after the 1912 disaster, devastated families travelled by train to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to collect the bodies that had been recovered from the sea. Upon arrival they were handed an ...

China to launch Shenzhou-22 spacecraft Nov. 25 to provide lifeboat for astronauts China is set to launch an uncrewed Shenzhou ...

A converted tugboat-floating home in Sausalito is for sale for $1.4 million. The houseboat, Mirene, is owned by Stewart Brand ...

By Peter Hummers I’ve been reading Hidden History of the Outer Banks by Sarah Downing and was reminded of Alfred Hitchcock’s film Lifeboat by Downing’s account of German raids during WWII on ...