More than 1,500 people died during the sinking of the Titanic. Of its total 2,240 passengers and crew, only 706 people survived.

In 1912, the Collyer family boarded the ill-fated ship bound for Payette. Only the mother and daughter survived. Explorer ...

A gold pocket watch owned by Isidor Straus, a passenger on the Titanic, sold for a historic $2.3 million at an auction house in England on Nov. 22 Straus and his wife died on the sinking liner, a last ...

A gold pocket watch belonging to a couple who died on the Titanic, sold for a record $2.3 million at auction. The watch, gifted by his wife Ida and recovered from his body after the sinking. The ...

A timeless piece of history from the Titanic disaster is available. The gold pocket watch worn by Macy’s co-owner Isidor Strauss when the legendary ship sank is being auctioned off this weekend.

Titanic survivor Major Frank Winnold Prentice recounted his harrowing survival of the Titanic crash and sinking in a 1979 interview Prentice was just 23 when he jumped from the boat’s stern as it sank ...

I will not be separated from my husband; as we have lived, so will we die together,” Ida Straus said before she and her husband died on the ill-fated ship ...

Even as the Titanic slipped beneath the icy North Atlantic, one story of devotion survived the disaster — and now it has made history at auction ...