Exactly a hundred years ago, the biggest and most luxurious British passenger ocean liner, RMS Titanic, begun its maiden voyage after leaving Southampton, England on 10 April 1912. Unfortunately, in five days the world was shocked by the news that the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.
Nowdays, we used to a countless companies which offers a different ocean trips on their liners, whatever sea rout you will choose. It is a big part of travel industry today. But a century ago, a voyage on the ocean liner was more a question of the transport rather than a touristic vacation or spending a holiday time.
Become it more safe to sail now after the Titanic's tragedy? A 100 years later it is obvious that "no", after crashing on January 13, 2012, near the Italian coast the Costa Concordia, the modern Titanic - a symbol of human's carelessness. But back to Titanic.
On Monday, April 15, 1912, it became known in London that the Titanic, the largest and most luxurious ship in the world, had sunk in the Atlantic Ocean just five days after leaving Southampton on its maiden voyage to New York. Shortly after 11.40 p.m. on Sunday the 14th, the great ship had struck an iceberg a few hundreds miles south of Newfoundland; it sank at 2.20 a.m. on Monday morning.
Read the whole post »