But what concerned the 47-year-old Astor most when he asked the ship’s quartermaster if he could join her as the world’s then-largest ocean-liner moaned as it listed was her “delicate condition.” Yes, ...

Not long before the famed ocean-liner Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic after plowing into an iceberg on a cold, dark night in 1912, the richest first-class passenger aboard — a longtime Palm ...

More than a century ago, after losing her husband on the Titanic's disastrous voyage Madeleine Talmage Astor rose to prominence in Palm Beach, where she leased oceanfront estates, socialized and ...