Instead the captain apparently called out "look after yourselves boys." Other survivors even made claims that in the Titanic captain's final moments he rescued a baby and handed it off to a lifeboat.

Over 1,500 people died when the RMS Titanic sank on April 14-15, 1912, following its fateful collision with an iceberg in one of the most notorious maritime disasters in history.

Author Dan E. Parkes writes of the ship's tragic sinking, and Smith's family legacy, in ‘Titanic Legacy: The Captain, The Daughter and The Spy’ ...

LONDON — A gold pocket watch given to the ship captain who rescued 700 survivors from the Titanic sold at auction for nearly $2 million, setting a record for memorabilia from the ship wreck. The ...