This composite image, released by RMS Titanic Inc., and made from sonar and more than 100,000 photos taken in 2010 from by unmanned, underwater robots, shows a portion of a comprehensive map of the 3-by-5-mile debris field surrounding the bow and stern of the Titanic on the bottom of the North Atlan...

NEW YORK (AP) — A memorial ship is preparing to ferry passengers from New York to Canada to visit the graves of those who perished on the Titanic. Titanic Memorial Cruise says the cruise ship Journey will leave New York City's pier Tuesday evening for Halifax, Nova Scotia. That's exactly 100 years...

BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard base in Boston is hosting a ceremony to bless the wreaths and hundreds of thousands of rose petals that will be scattered where the Titanic sank 100 years ago. The ceremony Tuesday includes Titanic historians and Bishop J. Kevin Boland of the Apostleship of the S...

NEW YORK (AP) — A century after the Titanic sank, the legacy of the ship's wealthiest and most famous passenger lives on quietly at the luxury hotel he built in New York City....

NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven-year-old John Payne has been a student of the Titanic since kindergarten. He has scrupulously researched the ship, built a model out of Lego freehand and successfully lobbied his fifth-grade teacher in suburban Chicago to let him mark the disaster's centennial with a multime...

LONDON (AP) — A cruise carrying relatives of some of the more than 1,500 people who died aboard the Titanic nearly 100 years ago set sail from England on Sunday to retrace the ship's voyage, including a visit to the location where it sank. The Titanic Memorial Cruise, carrying the same number of p...

CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Joseph Edgette didn't know much about the Titanic when he began teaching at Widener University, even though the school is named for a stunningly wealthy Philadelphia family that lost two people in the tragedy. But after a Widener descendant showed Edgette heirloom jewelry that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A listless late shift dragged on that night in the newsroom of The Associated Press and, across town, at The New York Times. Feet up on the AP city desk, an editor named Charles Crane read an H.G. Wells novel to while away the news-free night. "Telegraph instruments clicked desulto...

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Ernst Ulrik Persson was one of the greatest men Erika Will of Mesa and her sister Michelle Langowski never knew. Persson, their great-grandfather, died of heart failure at the age of 65 in 1951. But if it wasn't for his will to survive as a young man — while floating for six h...

Epic disasters — the anguished cries, the stories of heroism — are the central narratives of our age, both enthralling and horrifying. And our obsession began a century ago, unfolding in just 160 terrifying minutes, on a supposedly unsinkable ship, as more than 1,500 souls slipped into the icy w...