On April 15, 1912 the passenger steamship RMS Titanic on it’s maiden voyage sunk having hit an ice berg the day before. In the end 1,517 passengers and crew died or perished at sea and 705 survived. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
- Three wealthy Americans perished in the ship: John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim, and Isidor Straus [7, 8, 9]
- Curiously Alfred G. Vanderbuilt didn’t board the Titanic, he remained in London, but he did perish in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by Germans in 1915!