The stunning 18-carat Tiffany & Co time piece sold for a record-breaking £1.56 million - marking the most any piece of Titanic memorabilia has ever fetched at auction. Captain of the HMS ...
In fact, it was another White Star ship, the HMS Laurentic, which came out of the same shipyard as Titanic and sank in 1917, that was carrying gold bullion. Also, a rumour arose that a mysterious ...
Three years before it sank, HMS Hawke made headlines in 1911 when she was damaged after colliding with RMS Olympic – the sister ship of the Titanic. After World War I broke out, the warship was ...
I was born five years after the biggest maritime disaster the world had known: the sinking of the ‘unsinkable’ HMS Titanic while on her maiden voyage. My home town Minehead, in Somerset, was not more ...
AFP/Paris Published on July 18, 2023 | 09:14 PM A major exhibition dedicated to the Titanic opened in Paris on Tuesday, with many of the objects on display brought up from the ship's wreck by a ...
From Lloyd’s perspective, the Titanic will long be remembered as one of the market’s biggest losses alongside major natural and manmade catastrophes such as the loss of HMS Lutine in 1799, the 1906 ...
It is the resting place of the Titanic, home to the mysterious Bermuda ... were at war over Atlantic trade routes. In 1812 the HMS Southampton captured the American vessel the USS Vixen and ...
"You have the Titanic museum further on up the road and ... on board the ship and one is called Caroline. He said that while HMS Caroline's role in World War One is well known "a lot of people ...
HMS Hawke, a 387ft (118m) long and 60ft (18m) wide Edgar-class protected cruiser, was first launched in 1891. In 1911, it was badly damaged in a collision in the Solent with the Titanic's sister ...
The ship, which is the last floating survivor of the Battle of Jutland in 1916, marks 100 years in Belfast this year having arrived shortly after the partition of Ireland ...