Stories of wealthy businessmen, brave musicians, and heroic crew members filled newspaper headlines across the globe. Yet among all those tragic stories, one victim would touch hearts more deeply than almost any other.
He was not famous.
He was not wealthy.
He was just a little boy.
And for nearly a century, nobody knew who he was.
A Tiny Body in the Atlantic
Days after the Titanic sank, recovery ships arrived at the disaster site to search for victims.
One of those vessels, the Mackay-Bennett, spent days navigating through floating debris and bodies scattered across the freezing ocean.
The work was heartbreaking.