April 16, 1912, edition of The New York Times
The New York Times’ April 16, 1912, front page coverage of the Titanic disaster. The largest ship afloat at the time, the RMS Titanic sank in the north Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
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Less than 24 hours after RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, Billings residents 3,000 miles away were reading the first dispatches from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest port to the scene of unimaginable tragedy.