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The keel of the Titanic took place on March 31, 1909, about fifteen weeks later, after the sister ship Olympic to Kiel. At the same time both damper were henceforth built and with a high degree of elegance and luxury. It was intended, both damper in prestigious transatlantic liner service of the White Star Line. Two years later, on 31 May 1911, the Northern Irish Shipyard Harland & Wolff the completed Olympic to the shipping company and on the same day at 12:15 pm experienced the Titanic your launching. With a length of 269,04 m, a width of 28:19 m and a tonnage of 46.329 BRT exceeded all ships built until then and was in 1912, the largest ship in the world. First of all, took over the command of the Olympic Captain Edward John Smith, before he for the maiden trip on the Titanic. On Wednesday, April 10, 1912, she broke from Southampton, whereby you just a collision with the New York Harbor vertauten is lost. 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 April 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. Captain Smith went with his ship.

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