Despite sinking more than a century ago, RMS Titanic's top speed compares well with more modern passenger liners.

Read more: 5 Unexpected Cars That Former Presidents Used To Own The ship was called the RMS Titanic for one very simple reason: It was an abbreviation for "Royal Mail Steamer" (though now it means ...

American naval ships use USS before the ship's name, but with British ships it's HMS. There's a reason, and a lot of history, ...

The letter was written days before the ill-fated steamship tragically went down in the north Atlantic Ocean after colliding ...

RMS Titanic -- the "RMS" stands for "Royal Mail Ship" -- left Southampton, England, for New York City on April 10, 1912. On April 14, just before midnight, the Titanic hit an iceberg a few hundred ...

Titanic's full title was RMS Titanic as it was a Royal Mail ship carrying nearly 3500 sacks of mail including all sorts of letters and packages. Titanic's construction cost was £1.5 million ...

RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Titanic was a British passenger liner built in Belfast, Ireland. It was the second of the three Olympic-class ocean liners — the first was RMS Olympic and the third was ...

A water-stained ticket stub for the third class restaurant on the Titanic that was found on the body of a passenger who was only on the doomed ship because of a twist of fate has been discovered ...

“the same number that sailed on the fateful Titanic voyage,” the company said on its website. The cruise sold out nearly two years ago, so a second ship, the Azamara Journey, part of Royal ...

Remnants of the Titanic wreck can still be found at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, though a bacteria lives in the remains and will eventually consume them by eating at the iron in the ship’s ...