Story of two remarkable men with the same courage, dignity and being gentlemen till the end. Mr Astor from the first c;ass the richest man and Mr Goldsmith from the third class hoping to find a better life in America.

As we’ve recently had to acknowledge, even one hundred years after the Titanic disaster, and in the middle of an unprecedented age of high technology, travelling by cruise ships still bears risks. What can we learn from the Titanic?

It is said that the Titanic was the grandest ship of her time. What happened?

It is 99 years to the day since the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sunk in the icy cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean while on its way from Southampton in England to New York City. The collision with the iceberg happened shortly before midnight on the 14th of April 1912, the boat sank at 2.20 am in what remains one of the biggest maritime disasters to happen in peacetime anywhere in the world.

But could the sinking of Titanic have been avoided?

From Epics of History: More Prisoners of Eternity.

There have been worse maritime disasters but none more significant or famous. The sinking of the "unsinkable" Titanic destroyed the Edwardian myth that man could, and had, conquered nature.