In 1912, the infamous RMS Titanic took her maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean towards New York City with 2,200 passengers struck an iceberg and subsequently sank with only 712 people surviving.

The RMS Carpathia arrived in New York City on April 18, 1912 after rescuing more than 700 passengers and crew from the Titanic after it tragically struck an iceberg and sank.

Sets of breakfast dishes from the sunken Titanic are shown in New York, Aug. 25, 1987, in the position they were found by a 1987 expedition. AFP via Getty Images ...

On April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank after striking a jagged iceberg on its maiden voyage, where the Titanic was supposed to travel from the port town of Southhampton, England, to New York City.

Titanic artifact, believed lost, spotted during first visit to wreck since Titan sub disaster - The US Coast Guard continues ...

Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912, and, after colliding with an iceberg, sunk two days later on its way from the English port city of Southampton to New York. Only about 700 of the over 2,000 ...

A new expedition to the Titanic has shed new light on the slow decay of the most famous shipwreck in history. The ghostly bow, famously reimagined by James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster retelling ...

On April 11, 1912, the Titanic departed Cobh, formerly known as Queenstown, in Co. Cork, and set sail for New York. Today The Titanic Experience at Cork harbor commemorates the Irish passengers ...

In 1912, Arthur Rostron was captaining the steamship RMS Carpathia from New York to Rijeka, a port in modern-day Croatia, when he received distress calls from the Titanic that said: “Come at once.