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RMS Titanic
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RMS Titanic before departing Southampton, England. Photo taken Good Friday 5 April 1912 
Career  
Name: RMS Titanic 
Owner:  White Star Line 
Port of registry: [1] Liverpool 
Route: Southampton to New York City 
Ordered: July 31, 1908[2] 
Builder: Harland and Wolff yards in Belfast, Ireland 
Yard number: 401 
Laid down: 31 March 1909 
Launched: 31 May 1911 
Christened: Not christened 
Completed: 31 March 1912 
Maiden voyage: 10 April 1912 
Identification: Radio Callsign ""MGY""
UK Official Number: 131428 
Fate: Sank on 15 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg 
General characteristics 
Class and type: Olympic-class ocean liner 
Tonnage: 46,328 gross register tons (GRT) 
Displacement: 52,310 tons 
Length: 882 ft 9 in (269.1 m)[3] 
Beam: 92 ft 0 in (28.0 m)[3] 
Height: 175 ft (53.3 m) (Keel to top of funnels) 
Draught: 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m) 
Depth: 64 ft 6 in (19.7 m)[3] 
Decks: 9 (Lettered A through G with boilers below) 
Installed power: 24 double-ended (six furnace) and 5 single-ended (three furnace) Scotch marine boilers 
Two four-cylinder reciprocating triple-expansion steam engines each producing 15,000 hp for the two outboard wing propellers at 75 revolutions per minute[4] 
One low-pressure turbine producing 16,000 hp[4] 
46,000 HP (design) - 59,000 HP (maximum)[5] 
 
Propulsion: Two bronze triple-blade wing propellers 
One bronze quadruple-blade centre propeller. 
 
Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) 
23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) (maximum) 
 
Capacity: Passengers and crew (fully loaded):

3547 
Staterooms (840 total):

First Class: 416 
Second Class: 162 
Third Class: 262 
plus 40 open berthing areas 
 
Topics about Titanic 
List of passengers
List of crew members
Films about the Titanic
Titanic Historical Society  
The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by British shipping company White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom. For her time, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world.

On the night of 14 April 1912, during the ship's maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on 15 April 1912. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. The high casualty rate was due in part to the fact that, although complying with the regulations of the time, the ship did not carry enough lifeboats for everyone aboard. The ship had a total lifeboat capacity of 1,178 people, although her capacity was 3,547. A disproportionate number of men died due to the women-and-children-first protocol that was followed.

The Titanic used some of the most advanced technology available at the time and was popularly believed to have been described as ""unsinkable.""[6] It was a great shock to many that, despite the extensive safety features and experienced crew, the Titanic sank. The frenzy on the part of the media about Titanic's famous victims, the legends about the sinking, the resulting changes to maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck have contributed to the continuing interest in, and notoriety of, the Titanic.

Contents [hide]
1 Construction 
1.1 Features 
1.2 Lifeboats 
1.3 Comparisons with the Olympic 
2 Ship history 
2.1 Sea trials 
2.2 Maiden voyage 
2.3 Sinking 
2.4 Lifeboats launched 
2.5 Final minutes 
3 Aftermath 
3.1 Arrival of Carpathia in New York 
3.2 Survivors, victims and statistics 
3.3 Retrieval and burial of the dead 
3.4 Memorials 
4 Investigations into the RMS Titanic disaster 
4.1 SS Californian inquiry 
5 Rediscovery of the Titanic 
5.1 Current condition of the wreck 
5.2 Ownership and litigation 
6 Possible factors in the sinking 
6.1 Construction 
6.2 Rudder construction and turning ability 
6.3 Orientation of impact 
6.4 Adverse weather conditions 
6.5 Excessive speed 
6.6 Insufficient lifeboats 
6.7 Alternative theories 
7 Legends and myths regarding the RMS Titanic 
7.1 Unsinkable 
7.2 David Sarnoff, wireless reports and the use of SOS 
7.3 Titanic's band 
7.4 The Predictions of W.T. Stead 
7.5 The Ti