Portal:History/Featured article/April, 2007

RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner best remembered for its collision with an iceberg, and for its dramatic sinking on 14 April 1912. The second of a trio of superliners, she and her sister ships the Olympic and the Brittanic were designed to provide a three-ship weekly express service and dominate the transatlantic travel business for the White Star Line.

Built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, at the time of her sinking. Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world. Her maiden voyage was from Southampton, England; calling at Cherbourg, France; and Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland; her final destination was New York). She struck an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. (ship's time) on Sunday evening 14 April 1912. RMS Titanic sank two hours and forty minutes later on Monday 15 April at 2:20 a.m. after breaking into two pieces at the aft expansion joint.