She is the most famous ship in the world. The Golden Hind, the Mayflower, HMS Victory, The QE2 have earned their palces in histoyr, but somhow they all pale inc omparison with the Titanic. Yet sh made only one voyage, in April 1912, which ended in disaters. In the icy waters of the North Atlantic in the dead o night, the Titanic struck an iceberg and went down with the loss of some 1,523 lives.
In the section of the web site explore the events surrounding the ships contruction and sailing, explore the myth of invinsility, read through the passenger lists and find something about some of the passengers lives who sailed upon her, see the names of the fortunate few who were able to be saved in the lifeboats and collapsibles and who those were lost were remembered.
The Making of History
| Owners | A
Grand Design | Construction | Sister
Ships - Olympic and Britannic
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| Strict Segregation | Outdated
Lifeboat regulations | The Aura of Invincibility
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| Launch | Specifications
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Leaving for the New World
| Southampton | Southampton
- The New York and a Near Miss | Cherbourg
| Queenstown |
Provisions |
Passenger Lists
| First Class | Second
Class | Third Class |
Alphabtical list | Crew
| The Band |
Lifeboat Lists
| Lifeboats 1- 3 | Lifeboats
4 - 6 | Lifeboats 7-9 | Lifeboats
10-12 | Lifeboats 13 -16 |
Collapsibles |
Aftermath
| American Inquiry |
| Causes - An extract from February 1995 Edition
of Popular Mechanic |
Facts and Figures
| Harland and Wolff's 101 Answers to
the most asked questions about the RMS Titanic |