For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous
sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers
can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered
seventy-five years later.
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, the
largest passenger steamship of this time, met its catastrophic end after
crashing into an iceberg. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew onboard, only
705 survived. More than 100 years later, today's readers will be
intrigued by the mystery that surrounds this ship that was originally
labeled "unsinkable."