The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast, Northern Ireland. On the night of April 14, 1912, during its maiden voyage in Southampton, England to New York, USA, collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sank two hours and forty minutes later, at dawn April 15, 1912. Until its launch in 1912, he was the largest passenger ship in the world.

With 3,547 people aboard, the sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,523 people, ranking it as one of the worst maritime disasters of all time. The Titanic was from some of the most advanced technologies available at the time and was popularly referred to as "unsinkable" - indeed, an advertising brochure from 1910, the White Star Line, on the Titanic, claimed it had been "designed to be unsinkable." It was a great shock to many that despite the advanced technology and experienced crew, the Titanic still sank with a great loss of human lives. The media frenzy about Titanic's famous victims, the legends about what happened aboard the ship, the resulting changes in maritime law, as well as the discovery of the wreck site in 1985 by a team led by Dr. Robert Ballard made the famous story of the Titanic continues since then.

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• 14 years before the Titanic being built, has written a book called Futility (Futility) Morgan Robertson which described a ship called Titan that was unsinkable. Full of people with money and important, collides with an iceberg and sinks on a cold night in April. Had the same characteristics and passenger capacity than the Titanic. For some, the author used the book as a predictor of the accident, for others it is an amazing coincidence.

• During the night Captain Smith and the Fourth Official Boxhall could see lights of a boat that was just 16Km, 6 to 10 miles of the Titanic. Then at 00:45, rockets were sent every five minutes. At first, the boat seemed to approach. But then the lights disappeared. Hopes for help with the lights disappeared.

• In addition to Strauss, two other couples decided to stay aboard the Titanic. The Allisons, along with their daughter Lorraine, the only child of the first class to die in the accident, and another couple. When Ligtoller asked the girl this couple entered the boat, she said "Never, we got together, and if necessary, we will finish together."

• Of the 20 couples on honeymoon on board, only one escaped.

• The soundtrack from the 1997 movie "Titanic", enters the list of all albums sold, along with 20 million copies.

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