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Titanic http://library.thinkquest.org/J002229F/SunkenShips/titanictheunsinkableship.htm

• British ocean liner
• 882 ft long
• largest ship built at the time
• Thomas Andrews designed the titanic
• between 1908-1909
• took 15,000 irish shipyard workers to build it
• April 1912 started being built
• called the "unsinkable" ship
• Had a double bottom
• Captain was Edward John Smith
• He was 63 years old
• He was supposed to retire after the titanic
• S.O.S was not something they used at that time.