Saint-Pierre — a maritime historian who has studied artifacts recovered from the site of the 1914 shipwreck off the coast of ...

Not long after the release of James Cameron's blockbuster movie Titanic a few years ago, I saw a bumper sticker that made a waggish point. At the time, half the U.S. population seemed to be ...

Jessop took that advice to heart because of past experience with maritime catastrophes, including the sinking of R.M.S. Titanic in 1912. “There had always been much fun at my expense after the ...