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

The "unsinkable" Titanic met its demise on April 14, 1912. Here are both some well-known and little-known facts about the legendary ship that changed history.

To identify 57 fascinating facts about the Titanic, 24/7 Tempo compiled information about the ship from various sources, such as Smithsonian, Scientific American, and National Geographic magazines ...

The Titanic’s sinking, which occurred just a couple of years before World War I, also marked the beginning of the end of the glamorous and forward-looking Edwardian era, which as the 1997 movie ...

Ever since the RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, people around the world have been fascinated by this disaster. More than half the ship's 2,223 passengers died on what people considered a ...

The iceberg had a "jagged underwater spur," which created a 300-foot slash in the Titanic's hull below the waterline. This caused ruptures in at least five of its hull compartments.

3. This is Frederick Fleet.He was the lookout for the Titanic on the night it sank and the first to spot the iceberg in its path, which he described as "a black object, high above the water, right ...

All you've ever wanted to know about the RMS Titanic, which at the time of its building was the largest ship and deemed unsinkable. It sank on April 15, 1912, in the North Atlantic.

Titanic in numbers: Facts and figures about the Belfast-built RMS Titanic ... 160 – the minutes it took the Titanic to sink after hitting the iceberg (2 hours and 40 minutes).