Shipwrecks

history

The story of the Titanic centers on the RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912. Built in Belfast as the...

history

The table below summarizes the essential date, time, and duration details of the Titanic disaster. These values are drawn from widely cited historical and maritime records that...

History and Culture

Robert Ballard, a marine geologist and oceanographer, discovered the wreck of the Titanic on September 1, 1985, during a U.S. Navy–funded deep-sea expedition. The find came mo...

history-and-heritage

The RMS Titanic lies on the Atlantic seafloor south of Newfoundland, a famous and carefully studied wreck rather than a mysterious lost ship. Resting about 3,800 meters (12,500...

history-and-heritage

This evergreen overview explains how underwater photos of the Titanic are taken, what they show, and why some images remain hard to interpret. It covers major expeditions, the t...

maritime-heritage

Pictures of the Titanic wreck present a detailed, decades-deep record of the state of the ship where it rests about 370 nautical miles southeast of Newfoundland, roughly 12,500...

history

More than a century after the sinking, pictures of the Titanic shipwreck offer the clearest evidence of the grand liner’s final resting place. These images, captured through s...

history-and-legacy

'The last Titanic' commonly refers to the final hours of the sinking, the last physical remnants on the seabed, the concluding chapter of artifact recovery, or the legacy of les...