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The complete history of one of mankind's greatest engineering achievements, RMS Titanic.
RMS (Royal Mail Steamer) Titanic was a British ocean liner owned and operated by the White Star Line.
Titanic began her life at Harland & Wolff shipyard in the town of Belfast, Ireland.
She began her maiden voyage on April 10th 1912, departing from the town of Southampton in the southern part of the United Kingdom.
Following stops in Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland, Titanic and her 2,226 passengers and crew headed west towards America.
Just before midnight on April 14th 1912, Titanic struck a massive iceberg, damaging six of her sixteen watertight compartments.
At 2:20 am on April 15th 1912, Titanic broke into four pieces and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic.
Of the 2,226 souls aboard, 712 were saved. An estimated 1,514 people lost their lives.
On September 1st 1985, Oceanographer Robert Ballard discovered the wreckage of Titanic 2 1/2 miles (12,500 feet or 3,800 meters) beneath the surface of the North Atlantic.
Note: In this story, I write about Titanic as if she were a living being, even if she isn't actually alive. I and the people refer to her as "she" or "her".
I have also added conversations into the story. I made them based on what I think the people would've said and to help make the story more realistic instead of it just being an information dump.
A lot of the information in later chapters comes from A Night to Remember (Both book and movie) as well as Titanic (1997), and my own research.
The majority of this book is factual, while some parts are fictional or dramatizations.
This book is dedicated to the 1,514 men, women, and children who lost their lives aboard Titanic, and the 712 people that survived.