RMS Titanic (bow wreckage)

Canada / Newfoundland and Labrador / Goulds /
 shipwreck, historic landmark
latitude 41° 43' 57" North, longitude 49° 56' 49" West.

RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that became infamous for its collision with an iceberg and dramatic sinking in 1912. Initially the second of a trio of superliners, she was designed to dominate the transatlantic travel business for the White Star Line.[1]Her older sister was RMS Olympic. After Titanic's sinking, her younger sister HMHS Britannic (originally RMS Gigantic) was built. Owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, United Kingdom, Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of her launching. During Titanic's maiden voyage (from Southampton to New York), she struck an iceberg at 11:40 PM (ship's time) on Sunday evening April 14, 1912, and sank two hours and forty minutes later at 2:20 AM Monday morning.

According to the US Senate investigation, 1,523 people perished in the accident, ranking it as one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history and by far the most famous. Titanic's design used some of the most advanced technology available at the time and the ship was popularly believed to be "unsinkable". It was a great shock that, despite the advanced technology and experienced crew, Titanic sank with a great loss of life. The media frenzy about Titanic's famous victims, the legends about what happened on board the ship, the resulting changes to maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck in 1985 by a team led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel have made Titanic persistently famous in the years since. Source: Wikipedia

References:
wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_coordinates_of_the_Tita...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118217/New-Titanic-im...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic
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Coordinates:   41°43'57"N   49°56'49"W

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  • May Titanic Rest In Peace
  • R.I.P
  • RIP
  • May she Rest in Peace with 1500 other souls
  • RIP Titanic ... One of the world greatest tragedies ... We should take lessons ...
  • Did You Know? details the events of the night of Sunday 14 April 1912, and into the early hours of the following day, which saw the loss of the ocean liner Titanic, one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history. At the time of the disaster, Titanic was approximately two-thirds of the way through her Atlantic crossing bound for New York, having left Queenstown, Ireland, on 11 April. Many of the times are imprecisely known, since they occurred near midnight when timepieces were to be adjusted. On the night of the sinking, at 23:40, Titanic struck an iceberg. Just after midnight, preparations for evacuation began. Two and a half hours later, Titanic finally submerged. It was not until 04:00 that the first rescue occurred, with the arrival of the Carpathia.
  • RIP May we learn and move on, but lets never forget.
  • R•i•p
  • Today is 100 years.
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