Amazon Quiz (September 14): This is the wreckage of which famous ship?
Titanic
SS Eastland
SS Sultana
MV Dona Paz
Answer: Titanic
The RMS Titanic was a White Star Line-operated British passenger liner that perished in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg on her inaugural trip from Southampton, England, to New York City, USA.
It was the worst sinking of a single ship up to that point because more than 1,500 of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard perished. It is still the deadliest sinking of a superliner or cruise ship to occur during peacetime. The catastrophe caught the public’s attention, served as the basis for the disaster movie subgenre, and served as an inspiration for several artistic creations.
The second of three Olympic-class ocean liners run by the White Star Line, the RMS Titanic was the largest ship in existence when she started service. Belfast’s Harland and Wolff shipyard constructed her.
The disaster claimed the life of Thomas Andrews, the shipyard’s senior naval architect. Captain Edward Smith, who was in charge of the Titanic, perished along with the vessel. Along with hundreds of emigrants from Scandinavia, Great Britain and Ireland, and other parts of Europe looking for a new life in the United States and Canada, the ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world.
The first-class lodging was created to be the height of comfort and luxury, complete with a gym, pool, libraries, fine dining establishments, and lavish cabins. A powerful radiotelegraph transmitter was available for use by the ship’s crew and passengers to send “marconigrams.” Titanic’s image of being “unsinkable” was aided by its superior safety systems, which included watertight compartments and remotely operated watertight doors.
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