RMS Titanic was a British steamship built by the White Star Line company. It was the second of the three twin liners, such as Olympic, then the largest passenger ocean liner in the world. During her first voyage at night April 14, 1912, Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank within 2 hours and 40 minutes. There were 1,316 passengers and 908 crew members on board. Only 711 of them were rescued. This disaster has become one of the biggest disasters of the last century occurred in peacetime.
Titanic was laid March 31, 1909 at the shipyards of the Harland and Wolff shipbuilding company in Queens Island (Belfast, Northern Ireland). It was an expensive shipyard, but performed almost all of the work independently and was famous for its excellent quality. Continue reading