Anniversary special

Discovery of the century

For explorer Robert Ballard, it was the shoes that hit him hardest.
April 14, 2012, 9:30 am
Bells toll for ship's victims

Church bells pierced the night in Halifax , Canada, early yesterday to mark the anniversary of the Titanic sinking, with descendants of the victims leading the tributes.
April 16, 2012, 5:58 am
Artefacts up for auction

A 17-tonne section of the Titanic's hull is being auctioned for the first time, along with the rights to salvage and protect the ship's deep sea resting place.
April 14, 2012, 8:27 am
Search for heroes and villains

Before the rescue ship Carpathia reached New York carrying the traumatised survivors from the Titanic, the fallout from one of the world's worst maritime disasters had begun.
April 13, 2012, 3:49 am
A life's work ruined

About 90 minutes after the Titanic hit the iceberg, Joseph Bruce Ismay, president of the company that built the ship, jumped into one of the last lifeboats to leave on the starboard side.
April 13, 2012, 3:35 am
The cries of the doomed

After the Titanic slipped beneath the surface of the Atlantic, there came a sound that would haunt many of the survivors to their dying day.
April 12, 2012, 3:39 am
Survivor tells of desperation

Boat after boat was safely lowered into the water with its human freight of women and children, each with an ever-increasing cargo as it became more and more evident that the Titanic was doomed . . . The last lifeboat having got away . . . I met all the engineers as they came trooping up from below. They had all loyally stuck to their guns, long after they could be of any material assistance.
April 11, 2012, 3:55 am
Panic as the water rises

For some, the Titanic's fatal collision with an iceberg felt so slight, such a momentary tremble down the ship's enormous side, they didn't even get out of bed.
April 11, 2012, 3:41 am
A survivor's tale

Like everyone, I was entranced with the beauty of the liner. I had never dreamt of travelling in such luxury. I remember being childishly pleased at finding strawberries on my breakfast table. 'Fancy strawberries in April, and in mid-ocean,' I said to my husband. 'You would think you were at the Ritz.'
April 10, 2012, 3:58 am
Floating palace a ship of dreams

As the sun rose over Southampton on this day in 1912, its dawn rays fell on a marvel of modern engineering: RMS Titanic, the largest moving object ever made by human hands.
April 10, 2012, 3:49 am
Cruising in Titanic's memory

When Nicole Naeser leaves the Southampton docks tomorrow on a cruise ship bound for New York, it will be the start of a Titanic journey almost four years in the making.
April 7, 2012, 3:54 am
Grandfather a Titanic hero

Godfrey Lowe never realised as a child playing with his late grand- father's dusty old pair of binoculars that he had in his hands such a significant family heirloom.
April 5, 2012, 3:28 am
New light shed in Titanic

In complete darkness, some 4km below the surface of the Atlantic, the wreck of the Titanic lies strewn across the seabed.
March 24, 2012, 3:00 am
Last Titanic survivor dies in England

Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died on Sunday aged 97 at a care home in England, the BBC reported, citing two of her friends.
June 1, 2009, 6:30 am