The night that changed everything More than a century after the Titanic sank into the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean ...

Astor obeyed the custom of “women and children first” and stayed behind on the Titanic. A body believed to be his was recovered on Monday, April 22, by the cable ship McKay-Bennett.

Madeleine Astor is pictured in this file photo. In the century since the Titanic went down, an estimated 650 books have been published about the tragedy — 98 of them, ...

Madeleine Astor escaped in one of the lifeboats and reportedly gave the scarf to another survivor, Leah Aks, to protect her 10-month-old son, Frank, from the cold.

Madeleine Astor, who had been helped into a lifeboat by her husband, presented the watch to Rostron at a luncheon at her mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York.

A pocket watch that belonged to the wealthiest passenger aboard the Titanic is up for auction and could sell for as much as 150,000 pounds, or nearly $190,000. The auction for John Jacob Astor IV ...

Madeleine Astor, who had been helped into a lifeboat by her husband, presented the watch to Rostron at a luncheon at her mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York.