RMS Titanic
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Titanic
is probably the one wreck in the world almost everybody
knows or have heard about, maybe together with the
German
battleship Bismarck and RMS Lusitania. So many stories has
already been told about her, so this story will only cover
the basics. She was a passenger liner laid down at
Harland& Wollf in Belfast in March 1909. She was
launched in May 1911, and delivered to the company White
Star Lines in April 1912. She was the largest ship
ever built for her time, meant to servicing the
Southampton to New York city route. She left Southampton
10.April 1912 and set sail for Cherbourg and Ireland
before she set sail for America. On 14.April around noon
in the Atlantic south of Newfoundland, she struck and
iceberg and punctured her hull. Five compartment started
to leak, and she slowly started to sink. The few lifeboats
that was available was launched, often partially loaded
with people. Almost three hours after she hit the iceberg,
she went down together with over thousand people. The
wreck was discovered in 1985, resting in two parts on a
depth of 3780 meter southeast of Newfoundland. As of 2019
reports from surveys shows that the wreck is in a bad
condition and is rapidly deteriorating. Also see her
sister ship Britannic that went down in the deep
a few years later.
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| 41°43′32 N 49°56′49 W   Pictures: RMS Titanic in 1912 & White Star Line poster Courtesy of Cobh Heritage Center, Public domain Last updated: January 2021 |
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