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In 1907, J. Bruce Ismay (President of the White Star Line) and Lord Pirrie (Chairman of Harland & Wolff shipbuilders) dreamed up the idea to build luxurious ocean liners as a way for the White Star Line to compete in the transatlantic passenger market. A total of three ships were planned: The Olympic, Titanic and the Britannic. The next year was spent doing extensive design work. On July 30, 1908, authorization was given to build the Titanic and her sister ship the Olympic. The name Titanic is derived from Greek mythology and means gigantic. In 1911, the order was placed for the third ship Britannic. The ships were constructed by the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff.

The keel for the Titanic was laid on March 31, 1909. A cost of £3 million for the first two ships was agreed.

Titanic was launched at 12:15pm on 31 May 1911. 22 tons of soap and tallow were spread on the slipway to lubricate the ship’s passage into the River Lagan.

The ship was towed to a fitting-out berth where, over the course of the next year, her engines, funnels and superstructure were installed and her interior was fitted out.

Titanic was 882 feet 9 inches (269.06 m) long with a maximum breadth of 92 feet 6 inches (28.19 m). Her total height, measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge, was 104 feet (32 m).

During Titanic’s construction, 246 injuries were recorded, 28 of them “severe”, such as arms severed by machines or legs crushed under falling pieces of steel. Six people died on the ship while she was being constructed and another two died in the shipyard workshops and sheds. Just before the launch a worker was killed when a piece of wood fell on him.

Above: RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic. The two White Star Liners in Belfast seen together for the last time, 3rd February 1912.

The passenger facilities aboard Titanic aimed to meet the highest standards of luxury. The aim was to convey an impression that the passengers were in a floating hotel rather than a ship; as one passenger recalled, on entering the ship’s interior a passenger would “at once lose the feeling that we are on board ship, and seem instead to be entering the hall of some great house on shore”. Passengers could use an on-board telephone system, a lending library and a large barber shop. The First Class section had a swimming pool, a gymnasium, a squash court, a Turkish bath, an electric bath and a Verandah Cafe.

Above: The swimming pool for first class passengers only. Above image from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2284933/Titanic-II-Australian-tycoon-unveils-plans-replica-doomed-vessel.html

The Titanic left for Southampton on 10th April. After a journey lasting about 28 hours she arrived into Southhampton at about midnight on 4 April and was towed to the port’s Berth 44, ready for the arrival of her passengers and the remainder of her crew.

Above: Leaving Southampton.

The last photograph of the Titanic as she prepared to cross the Atlantic

All is on course and excitment builds in New York for the return trip.

What they didn’t see…

The Iceburg that sank the Titanic appeared out of the darkness on the evening of the 14th April.

At 11:40pm on 14 April, the lookout spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. The First Officer ordered the ship to be steered around the obstacle and the engines to be put in reverse but it was too late; the starboard side of Titanic struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline. Five of the ship’s watertight compartments were breached. It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as she could not survive more than four compartments being flooded. Titanic began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment as her angle in the water became steeper.

At 2:20am, two hours and forty minutes after she struck the iceberg, the Titanic’s rate of sinking suddenly increased as her forward deck dipped underwater and the sea poured in through open hatches and grates. As her unsupported stern rose out of the water, exposing the propellers, the ship began to break in two between the third and fourth funnels due to the immense strain on the keel. With the bow underwater, and air trapped in the stern, the stern remained afloat and buoyant for a few minutes longer, rising to a nearly vertical angle with hundreds of people still clinging to it, before sinking. For many years it was generally believed the ship sank in one piece; however, when the wreck was located many years later, it was discovered that the ship had fully broken in two. All remaining passengers and crew were plunged into lethally cold water with a temperature of 28 °F (−2 °C). Almost all of those in the water died of cardiac arrest or other causes within 15–30 minutes. Only 13 of them were helped into the lifeboats though these had room for almost 500 more people.

Distress signals were sent by wireless, rockets and lamp, but none of the ships that responded was near enough to reach her before she sank. A nearby ship, Californian, which was the last to have been in contact with her before the collision, saw her flares but failed to assist. Around 4am, RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene in response to Titanic’s earlier distress calls.

The initial reports coming from the Carpathia confused, leading the American press to report on 15 April that Titanic was being towed to port by the SS Virginian.

Later that day, confirmation came through that Titanic had been lost and that most of her passengers and crew had died.

Carpathia docked at 9:30 p.m. on 18 April at New York’s Pier 54 and was greeted by some 40,000 people waiting at the quayside in heavy rain. Titanic’s 214 surviving crew members were taken to the Red Star Line’s steamer SS Lapland, where they were accommodated in passenger cabins and taken back to England.

The last living survivor was Millvina Dean from England, who at only nine weeks old was the youngest passenger on board, died aged 97 on 31 May 2009. A special survivor was crew member Violet Jessop who survived the sinkings of both Titanic and Britannic and was aboard Olympic when she was rammed in 1911.

Massive thanks to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic

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