Photos courtesy of Greig Chauvin
Water poured into Front Street during a 1912 flood in Morgan City. Visible in the background is a sign hawking news about the sinking of the Titanic.
Madeleine Astor, who contributed to the building of Trinity Episcopal Church in Morgan City, survived the sinking of the Titanic. Her husband, millionaire John Jacob Astor, died on the doomed ship along with his dog, Kitty.
Efforts to raise $350 to build Trinity Episcopal Church figure in the connection between Morgan City and the sinking of the Titanic.
The Titanic and Trinity: Morgan City had ties to doomed ocean liner
Tue, 04/21/2026 - 10:02am
April 14, 1912, a gigantic British ship scraped an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the inaugural voyage of the RMS Titanic, once considered an unsinkable behemoth.
