Where would you like to see Wikimedia in five years Submit a proposal Learn more  Hide Help us with translations    RMS Titanic From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Redirected from RMS Titanic Jump to navigation search Titanic redirects here For other uses see Titanic disambiguation  RMS Titanic before departing Southampton England Photo taken Good Friday  April   Career   Name RMS Titanic  Owner  White Star Line  Port of registry  Liverpool  Route Southampton to New York City  Ordered July    Builder Harland and Wolff yards in Belfast Ireland  Yard number   Laid down  March   Launched  May   Christened Not christened  Completed  March   Maiden voyage  April   Identification Radio Callsign MGY UK Official Number   Fate Sank on  April  after hitting an iceberg  General characteristics  Class and type Olympicclass ocean liner  Tonnage  gross register tons GRT  Displacement  tons  Length  ft  in  m  Beam  ft  in  m  Height  ft  m Keel to top of funnels  Draught  ft  in  m  Depth  ft  in  m  Decks  Lettered A through G with boilers below  Installed power  doubleended six furnace and  singleended three furnace Scotch marine boilers  Two fourcylinder reciprocating tripleexpansion steam engines each producing  hp for the two outboard wing propellers at  revolutions per minute  One lowpressure turbine producing  hp   HP design   HP maximum    Propulsion Two bronze tripleblade wing propellers  One bronze quadrupleblade centre propeller    Speed  knots  kmh  mph   knots  kmh  mph maximum    Capacity Passengers and crew fully loaded    Staterooms  total  First Class   Second Class   Third Class   plus  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 Olympicclass 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  April  during the ships maiden voyage Titanic hit an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later early on  April  The sinking resulted in the deaths of  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  people although her capacity was  A disproportionate number of men died due to the womenandchildrenfirst 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 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 Titanics 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  Construction   Features   Lifeboats   Comparisons with the Olympic   Ship history   Sea trials   Maiden voyage   Sinking   Lifeboats launched   Final minutes   Aftermath   Arrival of Carpathia in New York   Survivors victims and statistics   Retrieval and burial of the dead   Memorials   Investigations into the RMS Titanic disaster   SS Californian inquiry   Rediscovery of the Titanic   Current condition of the wreck   Ownership and litigation   Possible factors in the sinking   Construction   Rudder construction and turning ability   Orientation of impact   Adverse weather conditions   Excessive speed   Insufficient lifeboats   Alternative theories   Legends and myths regarding the RMS Titanic   Unsinkable   David Sarnoff wireless reports and the use of SOS   Titanics band   The Predictions of WT Stead   The Ti