The Titanic

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Question 1

Which prestigious British transatlantic shipping company operated RMS Titanic alongside her sister ocean liners Olympic and Britannic?

Question 2

On which night and early morning in April 1912 did RMS Titanic collide with an iceberg and sink in the North Atlantic?

Question 3

What southern English port city served as the departure harbor from which Titanic began her fateful maiden voyage on April 10, 1912?

Question 4

Who was the veteran sixty-two-year-old sea captain commanding the Titanic on what was widely planned to be his retirement voyage?

Question 5

Which Cunard liner, captained by Arthur Rostron, navigated perilous ice fields through the night to rescue 705 survivors from lifeboats?

Question 6

In which shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was the Titanic constructed between March 1909 and May 1911?

Question 7

What primary regulatory safety deficiency contributed most directly to the devastating loss of over 1,500 lives during the disaster?

Question 8

Which American banking tycoon financed International Mercantile Marine Co., the shipping conglomerate that purchased White Star Line in 1902?

Question 9

In what year did oceanographer Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel discover the Titanic's wreck 12,500 feet below the Atlantic?

Question 10

Which steamship stopped in pack ice less than twenty miles away from Titanic, but had its sole wireless operator off duty asleep?

Which prestigious British transatlantic shipping company operated RMS Titanic alongside her sister ocean liners Olympic and Britannic?