How the Titanic sank

How the Titanic sank

The sinking of the Titanic is one of those historic events that only grows more vivid in our cultural imagination as the years go by. More than a century later, everyone has a friend with encyclopaedic knowledge of what happened, and there have been countless retellings across novels, Hollywood films and television dramas that have made even small details of the story notorious (the Case of the Missing Binoculars!). And here we have a major new …

A new book challenges traditional accounts of the final moments of Edward John Smith, captain of the Titanic, on the night of April 14-15, 1912. The book, titled Titanic Legacy: The Captain, the Daughter and the…

Around the captain of the sunken Titanic are wild stories. A new book goes back to the figure and reveals new details.

By Dan E. Parkes decided to debunk persistent rumors that had spread to Captain Edward John Smith's name, including that he was in...