The RMS Carpathia was over three hours away and came to rescue the stranded survivors. Of the roughly 2,200 people aboard the Titanic, only about 700 people made it into lifeboats. When the Titanic ...
Antiques Roadshow expert valuer Hilary Kay encountered a supposed rowlock from one of RMS Titanic's 20 lifeboats during the latest episode. Brought to her by a lone gentleman at Beaumaris Castle ...
Those lifeboat lanterns were snuffed out one by one, I feel sure... as people inside those boats realized with the slumping and sinking and loss of the RMS Titanic that soon a thrashing horde of ...
He was involved in the decision to reduce the amount of lifeboats from 48 to 16 on board the RMS Titanic, a decision which caused many to perish when the ship sank on April 14, 1912. He was ...
It was in gale conditions and those lifeboats were pulling and sailing ... trunk was later found washed up on the beach. The RMS Titanic, seen here departing Southampton on 10 April 1912 for ...