Thomas Andrews was a master of detail. As managing director and head of the design department of British ship-building company Harland and Wolff, he oversaw the construction of the Titanic, then ...

A new analysis by maritime experts has concluded that the disastrous loss of the Titanic was caused not so much by an iceberg as by structural weaknesses in the ship’s steel plates that caused ...

From crumbling steel to personal artifacts, each item tells a story — and one PEOPLE reporter recently got an up close and ...

The steel definitely played a role, because it was not as "impact-resistant" as modern steel, said Dr. Phil Leighly, who studied steel from the Titanic in 1996 and 1997.

“Titanic: Blood and Steel,” which begins Monday on Encore, is the second and, I feel safe in saying, the last such miniseries we will see this year, or soon. It’s a lot to ask of viewers ...

Moreover, steel may be distinguished from pure iron by its giving a dark gray spot when a drop of dilute nitric acid is let fall on its surface, while iron affords a green one. Exposed to the air ...