The Royal Mail Stremer- Titanic.

Engineering Master piece under construction.

Titanic during her fitting out.

Although Titanic's rudder was not legally too small for a ship her size, the rudder's design was hardly state-of-the-art. According to research by BBC History: "Her stern, with its high graceful counter and long thin rudder, was an exact copy of an 18th-century sailing ship...a perfect example of the lack of technical development. Compared with the rudder design of the Cunarders, Titanic's was a fraction of the size. No account was made for advances in scale and little thought was given to how a ship, 852 feet in length, might turn in an emergency or avoid collision with an iceberg. This was Titanic's Achilles heel."

Titanic in the stocks
The Titanic was a White Star line liner, built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, designed to compete with rival company Curnard Line's Lusitania and Mauretania.


6 March 1912, Titanic (right) had to be moved out of the dry-dock so her sister Olympic, which had lost a propeller, could have it replaced. On the left Olympic is about to enter the dry-dock with the help of the tugs

RMS Titanic before departing Southampton, England. photo taken Good Friday 5 April 1912
The ship began her maiden voyage from Southamton, England, bound for New York City, New York, on Wednesday, 10 april 1912, with Captain Edward J. Smith in command.

The first-class Grand Staircase aboard the Titanic

The verandah Café aboard the Titanic.

The Café Parisien aboard the Titanic.

The first-class lounge aboard the Titanic, in the Louis XVI style.

The first-class smoking room aboard the Titanic.

Photograph of an iceberg in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic’s sinking taken on 15 April 1912 by the chief steward of the liner Prinz Adelbert.

At 11:40 PM while sailing south of the Grand Banks of Newfound land, lookouts Fredrick Fleet and Reginald lee spotted a large iceberg directly ahead of the ship. Fleet sounded the ship's bell three times and telephoned the bridge exclaiming, "Iceberg, right ahead!" First Officer Murdoch ordered an abrupt turn to Starboard (right) and the engines to be stopped. A collision was inevitable and the iceberg brushed the ship's Starboard (right) side, buckling the hull in several places and popping out rivets below the waterline over a length of 299ft.

Survivors aboard a collapsible lifeboat

Extract from United States Navy memorandum concerning Titanic.

The Titanic reported her location at 41° 46′ N, 50° 14′ W. The wreck was found at 41° 43′ N, 49° 56′ W.

Carpathia docked at Pier 54 in New York following the rescue.

Titanic sinks!!!

Political Cartoon from 1912: A man representing the public with a copy of a newspaper with the headline "Titanic Disaster" pounding his fist on a "Public Services" desk belonging to a man representing "The Companies"

Later on 1997 James Cameroon recreated Titanic in Celluloid. Where he himself directed, edited, produced and written this work. The Movie deals with the massiveness of titanic and an unsinkable romantic story which attracted more audience as well...

Titanic Memorial, grounds of Belfast City Hall, Northern Ireland.

The memorial to the Titanic's engineers in Southampton