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- White Star Line was the company that built RMS Titanic. RMS stands for Royal Mail Steamer.
- In 1912, skilled shipyard workers who built Titanic earned £2 per week. Unskilled workers earned £1 or less per week.
- The Titanic was launched on 31st May 1911. It took 62 seconds to complete the launch.
- The cost to build Titanic in 1912 was $7.5million. The cost today is $400million.
- Titanic was 882ft 9in in length, 92 ft in width, 175 ft in height and it weighed 46,328 tonnes.
- Approximately 3 million rivets were used to build Titanic.
- Titanic left Belfast on 2nd April 1912.
- Titanic departed Southampton on 10th April 1912.
- Titanic hit the Iceberg on Sunday 14th April 1912 approx 11.40pm.
- The Titanic sank at 2.20am on Monday 15th April – 2hr 40mins after hitting the iceberg.
- There were 2,223 people on board. 1232were passengers and 991 were crew members.
- Dr Robert Ballard of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute found the wreck in September 1985.
- The Titanic lies approx. 12,460ft at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean (approx 2.5 miles).
