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Site Information

Country: United Kingdom
State: Southampton
Location: 41° 43' 31" N - 49° 56' 49" W
Elevation: -3821m below sea level
Field Documentation Date(s): March 14th, 2008
Project Release Date(s): April 12th, 2012
Time Range: 1909 CE - 1912 CE
Era: Edwardian
Culture: British



Site Description

 The remains of Titanic lie two miles deep at the bottom of the sea, entombed by the frigid waters of the north Atlantic, 380 miles southeast of Newfoundland. Until her April 14, 1912 sinking following a collision with an iceberg, Titanic was the biggest and most luxurious of the Olympic-class ocean liners built during the prosperous Edwardian era around the turn of the 20th century. She measured 882 feet and 9 inches in length, 92 feet and 6 inches in width, and had a height from water line to Boat Deck of 60 feet. At 46,328 gross tons, Titanic was slightly larger than her older sister ship Olympic (largely due to Titanic's added B Deck staterooms) and slightly smaller than her younger sister ship Britannic.


Construction of the RMS Titanic began on March 31, 1909 at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was one of three large transatlantic liners commissioned at the time by the White Star Line, that were intended to be the biggest and most luxurious ships ever built. On May 31, 1911, her hull was launched, and the outfitting completed on March 31, 1912. Carrying the RMS (Royal Mail Ship) title, the ship began its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912 at Southampton, England, bound for New York under the command of Captain Edward J. Smith.


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