Sometimes the stories around the Titanic are as amazing as the Titanic story itself!

Take the tale of Countess Urbina. Let us list her misfortunes:

Lost one daughter when she fell down a lift shaft and was crushed. Almost lost her first husband (Colonel Archibald Gracie) on the Titanic. He was rescued but died later the same year from the effects of his ordeal. Lost her third child and possibly a newly born grandchild in the influenza epidemic (oh, and both her other daughters also predeceased her) in 1919. Lost her half of the family fortune in a brokerage collapse... and then lost the other half to her late daughter's husband thanks to the highly suspicious disappearance of a will that, she claimed, left the money to her.

The final catastrophe, other than her own death, due to a fall, in 1937, was the realisation that her husband, Count Urbina, wasn't a count at all. Just a golddigger who tied her up and tried to suffocate her then locked her in a bathroom before stealing her money and jewels and fleeing on a steamboat to Chile.

Story of the mythical decorated book that went down with the Titanic— Read more...

Fortunino Matania never beheld the Titanic himself, but saw it through the eyes of those who were and communicated that vision for all time.— Read more...

George Rose is well-known in Titanic circles for his spirited portrayal of Baker Charles Joughin; in 1988 he was tortured and murdered at his home in the Dominican Republic.— Read more...

A detailed description of the route the Titanic took on her maiden voyage.— Read more...

Click and zoom this giant Titanic profile artwork— Read more...

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One of several Titanic crew members to survive the Titanic but die in subsequent shipwrecks... Frederick Scott killed in a boiler explosion aboard the La Marguerite in 1915

Titanic may have split in two at a relatively shallow angle— Read more...

Murder, bigamy, assault, spying, slavery, child abduction, smuggling, reckless driving, drunkenness, sedition and sodomy... just a few of the activities that Titanic passengers and crew indulged in. Discover the sordid truth...