When the RMS Titanic set off on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912, many believed it was practically ...

Like hundreds of others she stood on the dock in Southampton desperate for news after the Titanic, the world's biggest ocean-going liner, had hit an iceberg and sunk on her maiden voyage.

The Titanic, a luxury British ship, hit an iceberg and sank early in the ... Titanic began receiving reports of ice on April 14, but at the time the seas were calm and clear.

But his last letter to his mother survives, written on Titanic-branded paper and sent home from the vessel's final port of call just three days before it hit an iceberg. In the letter, he calls ...