THE WORLD FAMOUS TITANIC.

The luxury passenger linerr that struck an iceberg and sank off the grand banks of newfoundland on its frist voyage 14-15 april 1912 was located in 1985 by arobotic submarine 4km/2.5mi down in an ocean canyon,preserved by the cold environment.Although attempts for the discovery and recovery of the RMS Titanic began just five days after she sank, her wreckage was not found nutill september

The high casualty rate resulting from the sinking was due in part to the fact that, although complying with the regulations of the time, the ship carried lifeboats for only 1,178 people. A disproportionate number of men died due to the "women and children first" protocol that was enforced by the ship's crew.

Titanic was designed by experienced engineers, using some of the most advanced technologies and extensive safety features of the time. Adding to the ironic nature of the tragedy is the fact that the liner sank on her maiden voyage. The high loss of life, the media frenzy over Titanic's famous victims, the legends about the sinking, the resulting changes in maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck have all contributed to the enduring interest in Titanic

Titanic was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, UK, and designed to compete with the rival Cunard Line's Lusitania and Mauretania. Titanic, along with her Olympic-class sisters, Olympic and the soon-to-be-built Britannic (originally named Gigantic), were intended to be the largest, most luxurious ships ever to sail. The designers were Lord Pirrie, a director of both Harland and Wolff and White Star, naval architect Thomas Andrews, Harland and Wolff's construction manager and head of their design department,^[davit design. Carlisle would leave the project in 1910, before the ships were launched, when he became a shareholder in Welin Davit & Engineering Company Ltd, the firm making the davits. and the Right Honourable Alexander Carlisle, the shipyard's chief draughtsman and general manager. Carlisle's responsibilities included the decorations, equipment and all general arrangements, including the implementation of an efficient lifeboat

Construction of RMS Titanic, funded by the American J.P. Morgan and his International Mercantile Marine Co., began on 31 March 1909. Titanic's hull was launched at 12:13 on 31 May 1911,and her outfitting was completed by 31 March the following year. Her length overall was 882 feet 9 inches (269.1 m), the moulded breadth 92 feet 0 inches (28.0 m), the tonnage 46,328 GRT, and the height, from the water line to the boat deck, 59 feet (18 m). She was equipped with two reciprocating four-cylinder, triple-expansion steam engines and one low-pressure Parsons turbine, each driving a propeller.

The Titanic's design and construction featured luxury and opulence. There was a telephone system, a lending library and a large barber shop on the ship. The First-class section had a swimming pool, a gymnasium, squash court, Turkish bath, Electric bath and a Verandah Cafe. First-class common rooms were adorned with ornate wood panelling, expensive furniture and other decorations while the third class general room had pine panelling and sturdy teak furniture. The Café Parisien offered cuisine for the first-class passengers, with a sunlit veranda fitted with trellis decorations. The ship incorporated technologically advanced features for the period, including three electric elevators in first class and one in second class. She also had an extensive electrical system powered by steam-driven generators and ship-wide wiring for electric lights and two Marconi radios. One 5,000-watt set was manned by two operators working in shifts sending and receiving passenger messages, keeping the ship in constant contact with the outside world. First-class passengers paid a hefty fee for such amenities; the most expensive one-way trans-Atlantic passage was £875^{[citation needed]}(equivalent to £64,204 as of 2011), or $4,375 ($99,237 as of 2011),

Titanic was fitted with five ballast and bilge pumps used for trimming the vessel, and three other bilge pumps with a capacity of 150 tons per hour each.Two 10-inch (250 mm) main ballast pipes ran the length of the ship and valves controlling the distribution of water were operated from the bulkhead deck above.The total discharge capacity from all eight pumps operating together was 1,700 tons or 425,000 imperial gallons (1,930,000 L) per hour.During the disaster, the engineers reported that the pumps succeeded in slowing the flooding of No. 6 boiler room in the first ten minutes after the collision, while also keeping pace with the flooding in No. 5 boiler room. These pumps could not have maintained the vessel's buoyancy indefinitely, but as long as they had steam to power them, the flooding could at least be slowed. At 23:50 pm on the night of the sinking, these sections were flooded and the inrush of water overwhelmed the pumps, at which point Titanic foundered.

letter the hull of the titanic once more to descend to its watery bed wherw it has remained since then.