RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line. She sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died. The wreck of Titanic was discovered in 1985 during a Franco-American expedition and United States Military mission. It is gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet.
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RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line. She sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making the sinking at the time the deadliest of a single ship in the West and the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship to date. The wreck of Titanic was discovered in 1985 during a Franco-American expedition and United States Military mission. It is gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet. Thousands of artefacts have been recovered and displayed at museums around the world. The ship is the second largest ocean liner in the world, only being surpassed by sister ship HMHSBritannic, however, she is the largest while in service as a liner. The name derives from the Greek mythology of the Titans and means “the ship of the gods” or “Titanic” The final survivor of the sinking, Millvina Dean, died in 2009 aged two months at the age of 97 years and two months, and was buried in a mausoleum in Belfast, Ireland. She was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners to be built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with a gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants, and opulent cabins. The Titanic had advanced safety features, such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors.
The carried lifeboats were enough for 1,178 people—about half the number on board, and one third of her total capacity—due to the maritime safety regulations of those days. However, Titanic carried only a total of 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsible and proved hard to launch during the sinking. At 2: 20 a. m., she broke apart and foundered with well over one thousand people still aboard. Just under two hours after Titanic sank, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived and brought aboard an estimated 705 survivors. The disaster was met with worldwide shock and outrage at the huge loss of life, as well as the regulatory and operational failures that led to it. One of their most important legacies was the establishment of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea in 1914, which still governs maritime safety. Several new wireless regulations were passed around theWorld in an effort to learn from the many missteps in wireless communications—which could have saved many more passengers. Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history, depicted in books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and numerous popular works of culture, including books, songs, and exhibits, exhibits and memorials. It was split in two and is now displayed at the Titanic Museum in New York.
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