Titanic
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RMS Titanic and what it relates to. Every line is an evidence-backed relation, and the arrangement is fixed — this address draws this picture, today and next year.
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- RMS Titanic · built_by · Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
Yard number 401, laid down on slipway No. 3 in 1909 and handed over on 2 April 1912.
- RMS Titanic · called_at · Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
Anchored in the outer roadstead on the evening of 10 April; passengers tendered out by Nomadic and Traffic.
- RMS Titanic · called_at · Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage
Final call, off Roche's Point on 11 April 1912, and the last land seen.
- RMS Titanic · bound_for · New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
Booked into White Star's Pier 59 for 17 April 1912; never arrived.
- RMS Titanic · foundered_in · North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
Struck an iceberg on the Grand Banks approaches during an unusually heavy ice season.
- Titanic wreck site · is_wreck_of · RMS Titanic
Two hull sections and a debris field on the abyssal plain at about 3,800 m, roughly 13 nautical miles from the transmitted distress position.
- Titanic wreck site · located_within · North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
The site lies in the iceberg drift zone southeast of the Grand Banks that the ship was crossing.
- RMS Carpathia · rescued_survivors_of · RMS Titanic
Ran about 58 nautical miles through ice on the distress call and took aboard roughly 705 people.
- RMS Carpathia · landed_survivors_at · New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
Berthed at Cunard's Pier 54 on the night of 18 April 1912 after putting off Titanic's lifeboats at Pier 59.
- SS Californian · failed_to_respond_to · RMS Titanic
Stopped in the same ice field with her wireless closed down; her officers saw white rockets and took no effective action.
- Captain Edward John Smith · commanded · RMS Titanic
Master for the maiden voyage; held the day's ice reports and maintained about 22 knots. Died in the sinking.
- RMS Titanic · operated_by · White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
Registered at Liverpool to the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, trading as the White Star Line.
- Captain Edward John Smith · previously_commanded · RMS Olympic
Took Olympic out on her maiden voyage in 1911 and was in command during the collision with HMS Hawke.
- Thomas Andrews · designed · RMS Titanic
Led the design work as head of the Harland and Wolff drawing office and made the assessment that the ship could not float.
- RMS Titanic · equipped_with · Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
A 5 kW rotary spark set, call sign MGY, staffed by Marconi company employees rather than ship's crew.
- RMS Titanic · carried · Titanic's lifeboat complement
Twenty boats with a certificated capacity of 1,178 for a ship licensed to carry more than 3,300 people.
- British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic · investigated · RMS Titanic
Formal Board of Trade investigation into the loss, reporting 30 July 1912.
- RMS Titanic · instance_of · Olympic-class liner
Second of the three Olympic-class liners designed at Harland and Wolff.
- United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic · investigated · RMS Titanic
Senate Commerce subcommittee inquiry opened 19 April 1912, reporting 28 May 1912.
- British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic · found_at_fault · SS Californian
Mersey held that she saw the rockets and could have pushed through the ice to Titanic's assistance.
- RMS Olympic · instance_of · Olympic-class liner
Class leader, yard number 400.
- Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax · holds_burials_from · RMS Titanic
121 of the 150 victims buried in Halifax lie here, recovered by the chartered cable ships.
- HMHS Britannic · instance_of · Olympic-class liner
Third of the class, yard number 433, built with post-Titanic subdivision and davit revisions.
- RMS Olympic · sister_ship_of · RMS Titanic
Built alongside one another on adjacent slipways; Olympic's year in service shaped Titanic's final fitting-out.
- HMHS Britannic · sister_ship_of · RMS Titanic
Third sister, redesigned mid-build in direct response to Titanic's loss.
- RMS Olympic · built_by · Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
Laid down on slipway No. 2 under the same Arrol Gantry.
- RMS Titanic · departed_from · Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)
Maiden voyage began from Berth 44, White Star Dock, at noon on 10 April 1912.