Trubach 03719 R.M.S. Titanic 1/200 RMS Titanic is a British Olympic-type ocean liner of the British shipping company White Star Line (formally since 1902 under the control of the American holding company Junius Pierpont Morgan - International Mercantile Marine, IMM. On the night of April 14 /15, 1912, during its maiden voyage in Southampton - Cherbourg - Queenstown - New York, collided with an iceberg and sank.His disaster led to a change in maritime safety regulations. The Titanic was one of three Olympic-class liners. It had two sister ships, the Olympic and the Gigantic (the third was renamed the less pretentious Britannic after the Titanic disaster). The concept of building this series of ships was conceived in the spring of 1907 during a meeting between Bruce Ismay, director of the shipping company White Star Line, and William James Pirrie, chairman of the board of directors of the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Each of the planned three ships had a capacity of approximately 45,000 vessels. GRT. Their engines had to develop a speed of 24 knots (44.4 km/h). They were supposed to be a little slower than competing Cunard liners, but they made up for it with their size and luxurious equipment. Detailed concepts for the construction of new liners were developed by architects Alexander Carlyle, Thomas Andrews and Edward Wilding. The priority for the builders was to build a ship that was significantly superior to the contestants' designs. Resigned to the inability to keep pace in the field of speed and thus win the Atlantic Blue Ribbon. At that time, the competing line Cunard had two of the most luxurious and at the same time fastest ships in the world - Lusitania and Mauretania. White Star Line ships, however, were to be approximately 100 feet (30.5 m) longer and offer luxury not previously seen in the North Atlantic.
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