The designation HMS, then, is primarily for commissioned ships of the British Royal Navy. Since 1913's Ships' Names Committee, there has been a British body in charge of naming vessels.

The ship was called the RMS Titanic for one very simple reason: It was an abbreviation for "Royal Mail Steamer" (though now it means "Royal Mail Ship"). In other words, it was a commercial ship ...

Bit of history behind each piece. The fragment of hull piece from the R.M.S Titanic belonged to the former Vice President of the RMS Titanic inc who dived to the wreck 22 times. In 1996 an attempt ...

Construction is underway on Harvard Medical School’s Building C following a $75 million gift from Ernesto S.M. Bertarelli. The renovation project will modernize the 119-year-old building.

The original name, HMS Agincourt, was first announced in 2018, by Sir Gavin. It would have been the sixth Royal Navy vessel to bear the name of the famous victory in 1415, when Henry V's Army ...

Ryan McNaught and Em Blamey - the talents behind the Lego Brickwrecks. Picture: Cassandra Hannagan The Titanic model - which, somewhat morbidly some might say, captures the stricken liner after it ...

I can’t wait to hear what the bridge and tunnel brigade will make of Titanique. Marketed as a fairly earnest musical adaptation of the film, it is probably the most brazenly weird thing on in the West ...

The Titanic could have a sequel in 2018. No, not the 1997 film with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet — as Jack and Rose — breaking down class barriers to fall in love as the HMS Titanic hits ...

Porcelain plates, glassware, bottles, models of ships and a 17th-century Spanish pistol from the HMS Association, which floundered off the Isles of Scilly in 1707, are all on sale.

A French trading ship that sank in the 17th century with treasure on board is being brought back to life in a workshop in Madagascar with every stroke of Rafah Ralahy’s small wood sander.