"with a painstaking attention to detail and accuracy. There were a wide range of recreational and sporting facilities in addition which provided ample opportunity for amusement during a voyage. Although closely similar to her sister ship and predecessor the RMS Olympic, ""Titanic"" featured additional First-Class staterooms, augmented public rooms, and myriad minor improvements to enhance her luxury and comfort. The bulk of First-Class facilities and accommodation was located on the upper decks within the superstructure of the ""Titanic"", where the vibrations and noise of the engines were at their lowest. The entirety of A-Deck was devoted to First-Class recreational space"
"RMS Titanic alternative theories The sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" in 1912 attracted so much controversy that several alternative theories about its sinking have gained support. One version is that the sunken ship was actually the ""Olympic"", near-identical sister-ship of the ""Titanic"", which was the subject of a large insurance claim, and that the two vessels were secretly switched before the voyage. Another was that the ""Titanic""s owner, J.P. Morgan, wanted to eliminate several prominent bankers who were opposing his plan for the creation of a U.S. central bank. The ""Titanic"" struck an iceberg, leaving a hole in her starboard"
"RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS ""Titanic"" was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three s operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff"
"returned to commercial service in 1920, she crossed the Atlantic as one of a trio of grand White Star liners. The other two were seized as war reparations from Germany: and . During the 1920s ""Olympic"" would enjoy great popularity on the transatlantic route, earning the nickname 'Old Reliable'. Passengers included such luminaries as Charlie Chaplin and the then Prince of Wales Edward VIII. In 1934 she inadvertently collided with and sank Nantucket Lightship LV-117, leading to the death of seven of her eleven crewmembers. Despite a major refit later in her career, ""Olympic"" struggled to compete with her newer"
"his book, ""Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank?"". In it, Gardiner draws on several events and coincidences that occurred in the months, days, and hours leading up to the sinking of the ""Titanic"", and concludes that the ship that sank was in fact ""Titanic""s sister ship , disguised as ""Titanic"", as an insurance scam by her owners, the International Mercantile Marine Group, controlled by American financier J.P. Morgan that had acquired the White Star Line in 1902. ""Olympic"" was the slightly older sister of ""Titanic"", built alongside the more famous vessel but launched in October 1910. Her exterior profile was"
"list created by the moving of coal inside the ship prior to the encounter with the iceberg. Some of these foremost Titanic experts have published a detailed rebuttal of Molony's claims. RMS Titanic alternative theories The sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" in 1912 attracted so much controversy that several alternative theories about its sinking have gained support. One version is that the sunken ship was actually the ""Olympic"", near-identical sister-ship of the ""Titanic"", which was the subject of a large insurance claim, and that the two vessels were secretly switched before the voyage. Another was that the ""Titanic""s owner, J.P."
"the White Star Line to outdo the ""Mauritania"" and ""Lusitania"" which belonged to the rival Cunard Line. ""Titanic"" was 269 m long and weight 46,000 tons. She was described as a luxury hotel at sea and as ""unsinkable"". She was fitted with a double bottom and 16 watertight compartments so that even if two were flooded she would not sink. ""Titanic"" departed from Southampton on 10 April 1912 on her maiden voyage to America. She called at Cherbourg and then Queenstown (now Cobh) before heading for New York City. Despite warnings of icebergs, she continued at on the night of"
"insurance scam by her owners, the International Mercantile Marine Group, controlled by American financier J.P. Morgan that had acquired the White Star Line in 1902. ""Olympic"" was the slightly older sister of ""Titanic"", built alongside the more famous vessel but launched in October 1910. Her exterior profile was nearly identical to ""Titanic"", save for minor details such as the number of portholes on the forward C decks of the ships, the spacing of the windows on the B decks, and the forward section of the A deck promenade on ""Titanic"" that had been enclosed only a few weeks before she"
"as the ""R.M.S. Titanic"" in a few shipboard scenes. S.O.S. Titanic S.O.S. Titanic is a British -American 1979 television movie that depicts the doomed 1912 maiden voyage from the perspective of three distinct groups of passengers in First, Second, and Third Class. The script was written by James Costigan and directed by William Hale (credited as Billy Hale). It is the first ""Titanic"" film filmed and released in color. First Class passengers include a May–December couple, multi-millionaire John Jacob Astor IV (David Janssen) and his new wife Madeleine Talmage Force (Beverly Ross); their friend, the ""unsinkable"" Molly Brown (Cloris Leachman);"
"time of her entry into service on 2 April 1912, Royal Mail Ship (RMS) ""Titanic"" was the second of three sister ships, and was the largest ship in the world. She and her sister, , were almost one and a half times the gross register tonnage of Cunard's and , the previous record holders, and were nearly longer. ""Titanic"" could carry 3,547 people in speed and comfort, and was built on a hitherto unprecedented scale. Her reciprocating engines were the largest that had ever been built, standing high and with cylinders in diameter requiring the burning of of coal per"
"RMS Olympic RMS ""Olympic"" () was a British transatlantic crossing ocean liner, the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of liners. Unlike the other ships in the class, ""Olympic"" had a long career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935. This included service as a troopship during the First World War, which gained her the nickname ""Old Reliable"". She returned to civilian service after the war and served successfully as an ocean liner throughout the 1920s and into the first half of the 1930s, although increased competition, and the slump in trade during the Great Depression after 1930,"
"RMS Strathaird RMS ""Strathaird, later TSS ""Strathaird, was an ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). She was the second of five sister ships in what came to be called the ""Strath"" class. All previous P&O steamships had black-painted hulls and funnels but ""Strathaird"" and her sisters were painted with white hulls and buff funnels, which earnt them the nickname ""The Beautiful White Sisters"" or just ""The White Sisters"". ""Strathaird"" and her sister ship were Royal Mail Ships that worked P&O's regular liner route between Tilbury in Essex, England and Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. In 1935"
"S.O.S. Titanic S.O.S. Titanic is a British -American 1979 television movie that depicts the doomed 1912 maiden voyage from the perspective of three distinct groups of passengers in First, Second, and Third Class. The script was written by James Costigan and directed by William Hale (credited as Billy Hale). It is the first ""Titanic"" film filmed and released in color. First Class passengers include a May–December couple, multi-millionaire John Jacob Astor IV (David Janssen) and his new wife Madeleine Talmage Force (Beverly Ross); their friend, the ""unsinkable"" Molly Brown (Cloris Leachman); another pair of honeymooners, Daniel and Mary Marvin (Jerry"
"MY Titanic The motor yacht Titanic is a 1,900-tonne yacht that was formerly the Japanese Government's research/fishing vessel Toko Maru and later Kelso. In March 2010, she developed a leak while sailing in the Caribbean. Her rescue by the United States Coast Guard was co-ordinated from the United Kingdom. Originally built in 1971, ""Titanic"" is a former research/fishing boat. She is long, with a beam of and a depth of . She is powered by four Niigata 6MQG31EZ diesel engines.The vessel is currently being reconfigured to accept 4 HS Turbochargers 4800 series turbochargers. She displaces 1,900 tonnes. Her IMO Number"
"Hergé thought this was a perfect name for Tintin’s new mariner friend, and so Captain Haddock was born. There was a real 20th-century ship's master bearing this unlikely but appropriate surname: Captain Herbert Haddock had been the skipper of the famous White Star Line's passenger vessel ""Olympic"". He had also been temporarily at the helm of Olympic's even more famous sister ship ""Titanic"" before ""Titanic"" was officially handed over to White Star for her doomed 1912 maiden voyage. Another famous namesake, and a possible inspiration for the Captain's ancestor Sir Francis, was the English admiral Richard Haddock, a veteran of"
"by numerous works of popular culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials. ""Titanic"" is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only beaten by her sister , the largest ever sunk, although she holds the record as the largest sunk while actually in service as a liner due to ""Britannic"" being used as a hospital ship at the time of her sinking. The final survivor of the sinking, Millvina Dean, aged two months at the time, died in 2009 at the age of 97. The name ""Titanic"" was derived the Titan of Greek mythology and meant"
"and injuring two others. To date, ""Californian""s wreck remains undiscovered. The ""Californian"" went down less than from the location where HMHS ""Britannic"", ""Titanic""s sister ship, would be sunk by a mine just over a year later. SS Californian SS ""Californian"" was a British Leyland Line steamship that is best known for its inaction during the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" on 15 April 1912, despite being the closest ship in the area. The United States Senate inquiry and British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry into the sinking both concluded that the ""Californian"" could have saved many or all of the lives that"
"diving chamber used in the salvage still exists, on display at the Castlemaine Museum in the town of Castlemaine, Victoria, where it had been made by Thompson's Foundry in late 1940. RMS Niagara RMS ""Niagara"" was an ocean liner launched on 17 August 1912 and owned by the Union Steam Ship Company intended for the Australia-Vancouver, Canada service. She was nicknamed ""the ""Titanic"" of the Pacific"", but after the sinking of the real this was dropped in favour of ""Queen of the Pacific"". She should not be confused with an earlier RMS ""Niagara"", an ocean liner built in 1848 for"
"Robin Gardiner Robin Gardiner (24 May 1947 – 23 July 2017) was an English ""Titanic"" conspiracy theorist who made several theories in which the ""Titanic"" never sank. Most of the conspiracy theories revolved around an alleged switch with Titanic’s sister ship, the RMS Olympic. He was born in the suburb of Oxford, Headington on 24 May 1947, the middle child of three, his parents were Harold Gardiner, a military man, and Audry Gardiner. His fascintation with the started during his childhood and became a fiery investigator of her history until his death, writing several books where he covered his controversial"
"suggested in two fictional sinking stories, which he penned decades earlier. The first, ""How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid-Atlantic, by a Survivor"" (1886), tells of a mail steamer's collision with another ship, resulting in high loss of life due to lack of lifeboats. The second, ""From the Old World to the New"" (1892) features a White Star Line vessel, ""Majestic"", that rescues survivors of another ship that had collided with an iceberg. Some believe that there was another ship, the Norwegian sealer ""Samson"", in the vicinity of ""Titanic"" when she sank. Proponents of the theory argue either that"
"book, ""Olympic and Titanic: The Truth Behind the Conspiracy"". Author Mark Chirnside has also raised serious questions about the switch theory. Robin Gardiner Robin Gardiner (24 May 1947 – 23 July 2017) was an English ""Titanic"" conspiracy theorist who made several theories in which the ""Titanic"" never sank. Most of the conspiracy theories revolved around an alleged switch with Titanic’s sister ship, the RMS Olympic. He was born in the suburb of Oxford, Headington on 24 May 1947, the middle child of three, his parents were Harold Gardiner, a military man, and Audry Gardiner. His fascintation with the started during"
"the dining salon and the grand staircase were in identical style and created by the same craftsmen. Large parts of the interior of the ""Olympic"" were later sold and are now in the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick, which gives an impression of how the interior of the ""Titanic"" looked. Books: Journals and news articles: Investigations: RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers"
"10 April 2012, 100 years after the launch of the RMS ""Titanic"", a new, similar-looking luxury cruise liner, the SS ""Titanic II"", is christened. She embarks on her maiden voyage using the same route the ""Titanic"" took 100 years before in reverse direction (from New York City, New York, US to Southampton, England, United Kingdom). During the Atlantic crossing, back up near the Glacier, an even larger chunk of ice collapses into the water, creating a tsunami that sends an iceberg crashing into the ship, while the passengers are celebrating in the dining saloon. The entire starboard side of the"
"full-color film ""The Miracle"". Mr. Harris wired his associate, Charles Klein, that he and Renee would be sailing on the maiden voyage of the new White Star liner ""RMS Titanic"". The thought of this was so upsetting to Klein, he wired back, pleading with his friend not to sail on the ship. Mr. Harris replied to Klein by wire saying it was too late to make any changes. ""Titanic"" made her way out of the port of Southampton on April 10, 1912. As she was being guided into the harbor, the giant ship caused a large displacement of water which"
"RMS Niagara RMS ""Niagara"" was an ocean liner launched on 17 August 1912 and owned by the Union Steam Ship Company intended for the Australia-Vancouver, Canada service. She was nicknamed ""the ""Titanic"" of the Pacific"", but after the sinking of the real this was dropped in favour of ""Queen of the Pacific"". She should not be confused with an earlier RMS ""Niagara"", an ocean liner built in 1848 for the Cunard Line. At the start of World War II, RMS ""Niagara"" was operated by the Canadian-Australasian Line, maintaining a service from Auckland, New Zealand, to Suva and Vancouver. On 19"
"Titanic Belfast Titanic Belfast is a visitor attraction opened in 2012, a monument to Belfast's maritime heritage on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard in the city's Titanic Quarter where the RMS ""Titanic"" was built. It tells the stories of the ill-fated ""Titanic"", which hit an iceberg and sank during her maiden voyage in 1912, and her sister ships RMS ""Olympic"" and HMHS ""Britannic"". The building contains more than of floor space, most of which is occupied by a series of galleries, private function rooms and community facilities, plus the addition of Hickson’s Point destination bar in"
"began in August 1914, including some of their most prestigious vessels. The first major war loss was of RMS ""Oceanic"" of 1899, which was converted into an armed merchant cruiser and ran aground near the Shetland Islands due to navigational error in September 1914. The first White Star ship lost to enemy action was the liner ""Arabic"" which was torpedoed off the Irish coast in August 1915 with the loss of 44 lives. 1916 would see the largest loss of the war, Titanic's sister ship ""Britannic"" which was sunk near the Greek island of Kea in May after striking a"
"family and emigrate to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he planned to open a drugstore. Hart was seven years old when she and her parents boarded the ""Titanic"" as second-class passengers on 10 April 1912 at Southampton, England. They had originally been booked on a ship called the ""Philadelphia"" but the coal strike at Southampton that spring kept it from sailing and many of her passengers were transferred to the ""Titanic"". Almost instantly, her mother felt uneasy about the ""Titanic"" and feared that some catastrophe would happen. To call a ship unsinkable was, in her mind, flying in the face of God."
"It was only at the last minute that they were informed that ""Titanic"" had space available. They bought third class tickets to go to New York to get jobs and visit relatives. Eighteen-month-old Eleanor boarded ""Titanic"" along with her mother and brother as third class passengers on April 10, 1912 at Southampton, England. They shared a cabin with Elin Braf and Helmina Nilsson. Shortly after the ship struck the iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14, Alice and a cabin mate went out on deck and kicked around pieces of ice that had fallen off the iceberg until an officer"
"on board the yacht, which was later taken under tow by . The tow was later taken over by the tug ""Mitchel"". The yacht was taken to Frederiksted, United States Virgin Islands; none of the crew were injured despite their ordeal. MY Titanic The motor yacht Titanic is a 1,900-tonne yacht that was formerly the Japanese Government's research/fishing vessel Toko Maru and later Kelso. In March 2010, she developed a leak while sailing in the Caribbean. Her rescue by the United States Coast Guard was co-ordinated from the United Kingdom. Originally built in 1971, ""Titanic"" is a former research/fishing boat."
"whole population or power them to shore. Had the responded to ""Titanic""'s distress calls, the lifeboats may have been adequate to ferry the passengers to safety as planned. The sheer size of ""Titanic"" and her sister ships posed a major engineering challenge for Harland and Wolff; no shipbuilder had ever before attempted to construct vessels this size. The ships were constructed on Queen's Island, now known as the Titanic Quarter, in Belfast Harbour. Harland and Wolff had to demolish three existing slipways and build two new ones, the largest ever constructed up to that time, to accommodate both ships. Their"
"Legends and myths regarding RMS Titanic There have been several legends and myths surrounding the RMS ""Titanic"" over the years. These have ranged from the myth about the ship being unsinkable, to the myth concerning the final song played by the ship's orchestra. Contrary to popular mythology, ""Titanic"" was never described as ""unsinkable"", ""without qualification"", until ""after"" she sank. Three trade publications (one of which was probably never published) described ""Titanic"" as ""practically"" unsinkable prior to her sinking. Many survivors recalled in video interviews as well as in testimony that they had considered the ship ""unsinkable."" Shipbuilder Harland and Wolff"
"SS Californian SS ""Californian"" was a British Leyland Line steamship that is best known for its inaction during the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" on 15 April 1912, despite being the closest ship in the area. The United States Senate inquiry and British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry into the sinking both concluded that the ""Californian"" could have saved many or all of the lives that were lost, had a prompt response been mounted to the "" Titanic's "" distress rockets. The U.S. Senate inquiry was particularly critical of the vessel's Captain, Stanley Lord, calling his inaction during the disaster ""reprehensible"". Despite"