A great ship, at that time the largest and most luxurious afloat, Titanic
was
designed and built by William Pirrie`s Belfast firm Harland and Wolff
to service
the highly competitive Atlantic ferry route, it had a
double-bottomed hull that was divided into 16 presumably watertight
compartments.
Because four of these could be flooded without endangering the
liner`s buoyancy, it was considered unsinkable. Shortly
before midnight on April 14, 1912
the ship collided with an ice berg; five of it`s wartertight
compartments
were ruptured, causing the ship to sink at 2:20 am Aipril 15.
Here is a picture of the Titanic being built.
This is a picture of the men that built the Titanic by the
propellors
Here is the grand staircase in first class
View headline at the time of the disaster