On April 15th, 1912, John Jacob Astor IV—a member of the renowned Astor family and one of the world’s wealthiest men—helped his young, pregnant wife, Madeleine, into lifeboat No. 4 on the ...
A gold pocket watch that was recovered from the body of the richest man on the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking £1.175 million. The watch was sold on Saturday to a private collector in the US at ...
The enduring appeal of the story of RMS Titanic continues to fascinate people more than a century on — as illustrated this weekend with the record-breaking sale of a gold pocket watch ...