Night of Ice and Stars

On the night of 14 April 1912, on a flat-calm, moonless sea, the largest and most luxurious ship in the world brushed an iceberg for perhaps ten seconds — and two hours and forty minutes later she was gone, taking some fifteen hundred people with her into water two degrees below freezing. The Titanic had lifeboats for barely half the souls aboard, and she was four days into her maiden voyage.Here ...