When it comes to history’s most famous ships, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more notorious one than RMS Titanic. The largest and most luxurious passenger liner of its time sank in the early hours of ...

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This Wednesday will mark the 114th anniversary of a legendary maritime tragedy. At 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, the British ocean liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at a speed ...

Here's a look at the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic. April 10, 1912 - The Titanic sets sail on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York. Other WRAL Top Stories April 14-15, 1912 - The luxury ...

The ship cost $7.5 million to build. Fun Fact: James Cameron's 1997 movie about the disaster had a production budget of $200 million. Only three of the four smoke stacks were actually functional. The ...

The Titanic disaster is often remembered as a story of arrogance, ice, and a ship famously described as nearly unsinkable. But one of the most haunting details is painfully simple: there weren’t ...