A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 14, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic — on its maiden voyage — collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic ...

The ship was the largest afloat and the most glorious. Her name: Titanic. While the fate of the luxury liner in April 1912 is now a well-known tragedy, immortalized in a 1997 movie, those reading ...

LONDON -- Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been the last survivor of 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.

The sinking of the R.M.S Titanic after it hit an iceberg in the late hours of April 14, 1912 is one of the most well-known maritime disasters in history. The tragedy, in which over 1,500 passengers ...

LONDON — Barbara West Dainton, believed to be one of the last two survivors from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died in England at age 96. Dainton died Oct. 16 at a nursing home in Camborne, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It took roughly two hours and 40 minutes for the RMS Titanic to sink after smashing into an iceberg on April 14, 1912, in the frigid waters of the North ...