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The history of Titanic, of the White Star Line, is one of the most tragically short it is possible to conceive. The world had waited expectantly for its launching and again for its sailing; had read accounts of its tremendous size and its unexampled completeness and luxury.

Had felt it a matter of the greatest satisfaction that such comfortable, and above all such a safe boat had been designed and built – the “unsinkable lifeboat”; – and then in a moment to hear that it had gone to the bottom with fifteen hundred passengers! The improbability of such a thing ever happening was what staggered the world.

If Titanic’s history had to be written in a single paragraph it would be somewhat as follows: “The R.M.S Titanic was built by Messrs. Harland & Wolf at their well-known shipbuilding works at Queen’s Island, Belfast, side by side with her sister ship the Olympic.

The Twin vessels marked such an increase in size that specially laid-out joiner and boiler shops were prepared to aid in their construction, and space usually taken up by three building slips was given up to them.

The keel of the Titanic was laid on March 31, 1909, and she was launched on May 31, 1911; she passed her trials before the Board of the Trade officials on March 31, 1912, at Belfast and arrived at Southampton on April 5, and sailed the following Wednesday, April 10, with 2,208 passengers and crew, on her maiden voyage to New York.
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