On a cold April night in the North Atlantic, the largest ship ever constructed struck an iceberg on her starboard side and sank, whist approximately 400 nautical miles off of the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Of the 2,500 passengers and crew on board the stricken vessel, only 13 survived. The leviathan, which was 800 feet… Read More

Andrew Crosse was a wealthy young man, inheriting Fyne Court, a large country house in Broomfield, Somerset, England, at the age of 21 in 1805, following the death of his parents, Richard and Susannah. After receiving his inheritance, Crosse, who had been studying law at Brasenose College, Oxford, immediately abandoned his legal studies, in order… Read More