Revell 05210 R.M.S. Titanic Watercraft assembly kit 1:700

The keel of the Titanic took place on 31.03.1909 in the Northern Irish Shipyard Harland & Wolff. The damper has been equipped with a high degree of elegance and luxury in the prestigious transatlantic liner service of the White Star Line to be used. Two years later, on 31.05.1911, experienced the Titanic your launching. With a length of 269,04 m, a width of 28:19 m and a tonnage of 46.329 GRT, she was in 1912, the largest ship in the world. Captain Edward John Smith, specially designed for the maiden trip from the sister ship Olympic on the Titanic. On Wednesday, 10.04.1912, she broke from Southampton. The stations of cherbourg (France) and Queenstown (Ireland) were on the way to New York (USA). The crossing was easily until the due to numerous iceberg warnings on Sunday (14.04.1912) to 23:40 (on-board time) the bell of the ausgucks sounds. The ship grazes the iceberg on the starboard side and after two hours and forty minutes sinking in the icy waters of the Atlantic. Only 712 people survived the catastrophe.

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