RMS Titanic was a White Star Line ocean liner, built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, and designed to compete with the rival Cunard Line's Lusitania and Mauretania.Construction was funded by the American J.P. Morgan and began on 31 March 1909. Titanic's hull was launched on 31 May 1911, and outfitting completed by 31 March the following year.
Titanic was 882 feet long and 92 feet wide, with a gross register tonnage of 46,328 tons and a height from the water line to the boat deck of 60 feet.
Two reciprocating four-cylinder, triple-expansion, inverted steam engines and one low-pressure Parsons turbine, powered three propellers. A total of 29 boilers fired by 159 coal burning furnaces propelled the ship at a top speed of 23 knots. Only three of the four funnels were functional. The fourth was as an air vent and had been added to make the ship look more imposing.
Titanic could carry a total of 3,547 passengers and crew and, because she carried mail, her name was given the prefix RMS (Royal Mail Steamer) as well as SS (Steam Ship).
At the time of her building Titanic was believed to be unsinkable.
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