Name: RMS Titanic

Owner:                  White Star Line
Port of Registry:    Liverpool
Route:               Southampton to New York City
Builder:             Harland and Wolff yards in Belfast, UK
Yard number:         401
Laid down:           31 March 1909
Launched:            31 May 1911
Completed:           31 March 1912
Maiden voyage:       10 April 1912
Identification:      Radio Callsign "MGY"
UK Official Number:  131428
Fate:                Sank on 15 April, 1912 after hitting                       an iceberg

Class and type:      Olympic-class ocean liner
Tonnage:             46,328 gross register tons (GRT)
Displacement:        52,310 tons
Length:              882 ft 9 in (269.1 m)
Beam:                92 ft 0 in (28.0 m)
Height:              175 ft (53.3 m) (Keel to top of funnels)
Draught:             34 ft 7 in (10.5 m)
Depth:               64 ft 6 in (19.7 m)
Decks:               9 (Lettered A through G with boilers                       below)

Installed power:

• 24 double-ended (six furnace) and 5 single-ended (three furnace) Scotch Marine boilers
• Two four-cylinder reciprocating triple expansion steam engines each producing 15,000 hp for the two outboard wing propellers at 75 revolutions per minute
• One low-pressure turbine producing 16,000 hp
• 46,000 HP (design) - 59,000 HP (maximum)

Propulsion:

• Two bronze triple-blade wing propellers
• One bronze quadruple-blade centre propeller.
• Speed:
• 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
• 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) (maximum)

Capacity:

Passengers and crew (fully loaded):  547
Staterooms (840 total):

• First Class: 416
• Second Class: 1623
• Third Class: 262
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plus 40 open berthing areas
The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom. For her time, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world.
On the night of 14 April 1912, during her maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on 15 April 1912. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people, making it one of the most deadly peacetime maritime disasters in history. The high casualty rate was due in part to the fact that, although complying with the regulations of the time, the ship did not carry enough lifeboats for everyone aboard. The ship had a total lifeboat capacity of 1,178 people even though her maximum capacity was 3,547 people. A disproportionate number of men died also, due to the women-and-children-first protocol that was followed.
The Titanic used some of the most advanced technology available at the time and was, after the sinking, popularly believed to have been described as “unsinkable”.^[4] It was a great shock to many that, despite the extensive safety features and experienced crew, the Titanic sank. The frenzy on the part of the media about Titanic's famous victims, the legends about the sinking, the resulting changes to maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck have contributed to the interest in and fame of the Titanic that continues to this day.
Ship history
Titanic on her way after the near collision with the SS New York. On the left can be seen the Oceanic and the New York.
The vessel began her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, bound for New York City, New York, on Wednesday, 10 April 1912, with Captain Edward J. Smith in command. As the Titanic left her berth, her wake caused the liner City of New York, which was docked nearby, to break away from her moorings, whereupon she was drawn dangerously close (about four feet) to the Titanic before a tugboat towed the New York away. The near accident delayed departure for one hourAfter crossing the English Channel, the Titanic stopped at Cherbourg, France, to board additional passengers and stopped again the next day at Queenstown (known today as Cobh), Ireland. As harbour facilities at Queenstown were inadequate for a ship of her size, Titanic had to anchor off-shore, with small boats, known as tenders, ferrying the embarking passengers out to her. When she finally set out for New York, there were 2,240 people aboard.
John Coffey, a 23-year-old crewmember, jumped ship by stowing away on a tender and hid amongst mailbags headed for Queenstown. Coffey stated that the reason for smuggling himself off the liner was that he held a superstition about sailing and specifically about travelling on the Titanic. However, he later signed on to join the crew of the Mauretania.
Captain Edward J. Smith master of the Titanic.
On the maiden voyage of the Titanic some of the most prominent people of the day were travelling in first–class.
Some of these included
Millionaire                      John Jacob Astor IV and his wife Madeleine  Force Astor,
 Industrialist                   Benjamin Guggenheim,
Macy's owner                  Isidor Straus and his wife Ida,
Denver millionairess     Margaret "Molly" Brown,
Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon and his wife couturière Lucy (Lady  Duff-Gordon),
George Elkins Widener and his wife Eleanor;
Cricketer and Businessman:    John Borland Thayer with his wife Marian and their
                                                     17 year old son Jack,
 Jurnalist William Thomas Stead,
The Countess of Rothes, United States presidential aide Archibald Butt, Author and socialite             Helen Churchill Candee,
Author Jacques Futrelle his wife May and their friends,
Broadway producers Henry and Rene Harris
Silent film actress Dorothy Gibson among others.
Also travelling in first–class were White Star Line's managing director J. Bruce Ismay and the ship's builder Thomas Andrews, who was on board to observe any problems and assess the general performance of the new ship. 

Survivors, victims and statistics

 Maritime disasters, List of passengers on board RMS Titanic, and List of crew members on board RMS Titanic

Category	Number Aboard	Number of Survivors
First Class	329	199
Second Class	285	119
Third Class	710	174
Crew	899	214
Total	2,223	706

New York Herald front page about the Titanic disaster.
Of a total of 2,223 people aboard the Titanic only 706 survived the disaster and 1,517 perished. The majority of deaths were caused by hypothermia in the 28 °F (−2 °C) water. Men and members of the lower classes were less likely to survive. 92 percent of the men perished in second class. Third class passengers fared very badly.
Six of the seven children in first class and all of the children in second class were saved, whereas only 34 percent were saved in third class. Nearly every first-class woman survived, compared with 86 percent of those in second class and less than half of those in third class. Over all, only 20 percent of the men survived, compared to nearly 75 percent of the women. First-class men were four times as likely to survive as second-class men, and twice as likely to survive as third-class men.
Another disparity is that a greater percentage of British passengers died than American passengers, some sources claim this could be because many Britons of the time were too polite to force their way onto the lifeboats.

• In one case in the third class, a Swedish family lost the mother, Alma Pålsson, and her four children, all aged under 10. The father was waiting for them to arrive at the destination. "Paulson's grief was the most acute of any who visited the offices of the White Star, but his loss was the greatest. His whole family had been wiped out."

• The sailors aboard the ship CS Mackay-Bennett which recovered bodies from Titanic, who were very upset by the discovery of the unknown boy's body, paid for a monument and he was buried on 4 May 1912 with a copper pendant placed in his coffin by the sailors that read "Our Babe". The unknown child was later positively identified as Sidney Goodwin.

• Titanic survivors who have recently passed away include Lillian Asplund on 6 May 2006 and Barbara Dainton (née West) on 16 October 2007.

• Millvina Dean, who was only two months old at the time of the sinking, is the only living survivor of the Titanic. Although she is 97 years old, she has remained active in Titanic-related events and lives in Southampton, England.

• There are many stories relating to dogs on the Titanic. Apparently, a passenger released the dogs just before the ship went down; they were seen running up and down the decks. At least two dogs survived.