SS Titanic (eller heller RMS, siden hun fraktet The Royal Mail) sammen med søsterskipene Olympic og Britannic var de største transatlantiske passasjerskipene eid av The White Star Line. Bygget av Harland and Wolff i Belfast var hun ansett som u-synkbar. Denne myten var laget av pressen og ikke av eierne (selv om de ikke gjorde en innsats for å benekte påstanden) men fakta var at hun kunne holde seg over vann med hele 4 vanntette kammer oversvømt. Dessverre den kvelden hun traff isberget var det 6 kammer som ble oversvømt. Hun sank på sin jomfrureise natt til 14 april 1912.
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SS Titanic (or rather RMS, since she was carrying the Royal Mail), with her sister ships Olympic and Britannic, was one of the largest transatlantic passenger liners owned by the White Star Line. Built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, she was popularly considered unsinkable. But this myth was created by the press and not by the owners (who, however, made no effort to deny the claim), and was due to the fact that the liner was capable of remaining afloat even with four watertight compartments completely flooded. Unfortunately, on the night she struck the iceberg the number of breached compartments amounted to six.She sank on her maiden voyage on the night of the 14th April 1912. The tragedy, in which 1503 of the 2200 souls aboard lost their lives (40% of first class and 70% of third class passengers), caused an enormous outcry and led to the first ever conference dedicated to maritime safety. The Titanic disaster ranks as one of the worst peacetime maritime tragedies in history, and is by far the most famous.
Code: 1606
Scale: 1:250
Length: 107 cm
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