inputs: hypothesis: Titanic sank in 1912. premise: Ninty-seven years ago Tuesday, the Titanic, the largest passenger steamship in the world, struck an iceberg and began to sink during her maiden voyage. On April 14, 1912, the cruise liner, headed from England to New York, struck the iceberg. It took only 2 hours, 40 minutes for the 882-foot ship to be totally engulfed by the icy waters off the coast of Halifax. Killed were 1,517 people — although initial news bulletins indicated that all passengers had been safely transported to other ships.