Astor’s body was recovered from the north Atlantic seven days later dressed in a blue suit and brown flannel shirt. He was later identified by the initials JJA sewn on the lapel of his jacket ...

The Titanic wreck, rediscovered by Dr. Robert Ballard in 1985, revealed artifacts but no human remains, raising unsettling questions about their fate. Artifacts recovered from the Titanic evoke a ...

But both were told that their great-grandfather worked on a ship that recovered bodies after the Titanic sank in April of 1912 and the Lusitania was torpedoed in May of 1915. He grabbed a floating ...

The pocket watch of the richest man on the Titanic – recovered when his body was fished out of the Atlantic seven days after the tragedy – was sold a record-breaking £1.175 million yesterday.