The Latest Breaking News from Titanic

It has been 110 years since the sinking of the Titanic. Over 1,500 passengers and crew perished in one of the deadliest maritime disasters during peacetime. The story of the ship and its passengers has long since taken on mythic proportions and has been committed to film many times. James…

A number of items associated with the famous liner will be sold in east Belfast, a short distance from the shipyard where she was built.

Marlon Brando wore a Rolex when he played the iconic character Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979). Paul Newman sported one as pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson in The Color Of Money (1986). Bill Paxton, as treasure hunter Brock Lovett, also had one on his wrist as he descended in…

For curator Claes-Göran Wetterholm, who has spent more than 40 years researching the history of the doomed liner, it was important to tell the human stories behind the objects on display