A plan of the Titanic used during the inquiry into the sinking of the ship in 1912 has sold at auction for almost £200,000. The 32ft (9.7m) cross-section plan made £195,000 from a UK buyer when it went under the hammer. The
More than a century ago, on April 10, 1912, the Titanic set off on her maiden voyage from Southampton, taking 2,224 people on a journey to New York. But on April 14, disaster struck, and what was then the world’s largest ocean
James Cameron’s 1997 film Titanic was born out of his fascination with shipwrecks, inspired by the horrifying events of 1912 when the luxury liner sank on its maiden voyage in less than three hours after colliding with an iceberg. The 25-year-old film,
On April 10, 1912, the “unsinkable ship” set off on its maiden voyage from Southampton, Hants, only to end in total disaster four days later. After colliding with an iceberg, the Titanic descended into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, with some
A scathing takedown from a Conservative MP has compared Rishi Sunak’s Government to the “band on the Titanic” during a WhatsApp discussion between colleagues over the Government’s response to the migrant crisis. Lee Anderson, MP for Ashfield, accused Mr Sunak of “blundering
The shipyard which built the doomed liner the Titanic has postponed a string of key contracts in an update which has cut shares by a fifth. Harland Wolff, which owns the Belfast yard which built the White Star Line ship, said a