S hortly after 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, Captain Edward John Smith made his way to the deck of the Titanic after feeling a strange vibration. He asked a crew member what the ship had struck ...

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’ ...

Titanic Captain Edward Smith bore the lion's share of the responsibility for the lives lost. But the disaster was only the start of his family's tragic legacy.

When RMS Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912, she was the largest passenger ship in service and considered to be “unsinkable.” Just four days later, tragedy struck.

Titanic Captain Smith's last words as told to his Stoke-on-Trent memorial service, 1912 ... the Rev Gordon soon found his way to passing comment on the social and moral ills of the time.

The captain of the doomed Titanic has been immortalised in a giant mural in the city centre. The eye-catching and brightly-coloured painting of Captain Edward John Smith with the words ‘Fail we ...

Bernard Hill, who found fame as King Théoden in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy and as Captain Smith in Titanic, has died. He was 79. Hill died early Sunday morning, his agent told the BBC.

One of the more recognizable figures from the Titanic is the ship’s captain, Edward Smith. In his new book Titanic Legacy: The Captain, The Daughter and the Spy, out now from Amberley Publishing ...

When RMS Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912, she was the largest passenger ship in service and considered to be “unsinkable.” Just four days later, tragedy struck.