RMS Titanic

             The R.M.S. Titanic was called the "ship of dreams", and some
             called her the "unsinkable ship". It was the largest steam
             engine ever built in the world. She was the most beautiful
             and biggest ship ever to set sail to the sea. In the summer of
             1907, Lord Pierrie, Harland & Wolf, J. Bruse Ismay, and
             White Star Line planned to build three giant ships (Olympic,
             Titanic, and Britannic). They were to be designed as the
             most luxurious ships in the world, and to be built with the
             finest woods and furnishings. They would cater to the rich
             and affluent that traveled the North Atlantic. The three ships
             would give customers luxury and they would travel at greater
             speeds than ever before. In March 1909, the keel was laid
             down for yard number 401, where the Titanic would be built.
             It took two years to complete the construction of the ship
             and cost approximately $7,500,000. She was 882.9 feet long,
             92.6 feet wide, and weighted 46,329 tons. Titanic was the
             largest ship ever to be built by man in the world. Twenty- two
             tons of tallow, soap, and train oil were used to grease the
             slipway bed to coat and protect it against the enormous
             three-tons-per-square-inch pressure of the freshly painted
             In January of 1912, sixteen lifeboats were installed,
             which later became a total of twenty lifeboats in all. There
             were three different types of lifeboats on the Titanic:14 wood
             lifeboats, 2 wood cutters, and 4 Englehardt collapsible
             boats. The capacity of the twenty lifeboats total was 1178,
             which would not save all the ship's passengers if it were fully
             loaded (3547 passengers). In addition to the life boats the
             Titanic carried 3560 life jackets and 49 buoys.
             On the 3rd of February 1912, the gigantic ship
             dry-docked at the Belfast's Thompson Graving Dock. In
             March the engineering crew began to assemble in Belfast
             and some lived abro...

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