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

A major part of our ongoing fascination has been Titanic’s A-list travelers, including John Jacob Astor IV and his young second wife, Madeleine.

It is said that when Madeleine Astor feared the worst, she went for her jewelry case before boarding the lifeboat to safety.

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.

Astor was on the Titanic with wife, Madeleine. The business tycoon, who was in his 40s, had married the 18-year-old on Sept. 11, 1911, according to the auction house.

An often-forgotten survivor of the Titanic was John Jacob “Jakey” Astor VI, the “Titanic Baby,” who was in his mother’s womb when the ship sank, and his father perished in the wreck, on ...

John Jacob Astor IV's gold pocket watch that was recovered from his body after the Titanic sank has sold for a record total of nearly $1.5 million.

Mr Astor paid almost $9,000 for their one-way first class cabins – about £45,000 in today’s money. Madeleine was five months’ pregnant at the time.