The Story of the Unsinkable Titanic revisits the golden age of ocean going travel, when White Stars newest liner seemed to have pushed back the boundaries of technological achievement. Using contemporaneous accounts and facsimile reports from the archives of Associated Newspapers, it describes the tragic unfolding of events that led to 1,500 souls being lost in the icy waters of the Atlantic, events which served as a grim reminder that for all man's ingenuity, he was not mater of all he surveyed.