The Fiction That Came True

A floating palace sailed from Southampton in 1898 on her maiden voyage it was the biggest and grandest liner ever built, and rich passengers savored its luxury as they journeyed to the United States. But the ship never reached its destination: Its Hull was ripped open...

Still Waters and KA-RE

Donald Allen Kirch, author of Still Waters and KA-RE KA-RE Book Description Once they said, “God Himself Could Not Sink Her!” The maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic was to be the toast of Europe. Filled with the richest people in the world, there was no...

Wrecked ships and human folly

It is almost 100 years since the RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean after striking a floating mountain of ice on a frigid April evening. And in the decades that followed this catastrophe, humanity grew confident it had learned from and...