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Titanic departing Belfast for sea trials on 2 April 1912. Titanic ' s sea trials began at 6 am on Tuesday, 2 April 1912, just two days after the fitting out was finished and eight days before departure from Southampton on the maiden voyage. [97] The trials were delayed for a day due to bad weather, but by Monday morning it was clear and fair. [98]
The White Star Line was a British shipping line.Founded out of the remains of a defunct packet company, it gradually grew to become one of the most prominent shipping companies in the world, providing passenger and cargo services between the British Empire and the United States.
In 2003, Harland & Wolff's parent company sold 185 acres of surplus shipyard land and buildings to Harcourt Developments for £47 million. This is now known as the Titanic Quarter, and includes the £97 million Titanic Belfast visitor attraction. Isle of Inishmore and Jonathan Swift during refit at Harland & Wolff in 2008
The Titanic under construction at a Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. The ship hit an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912. - Krista Few/Corbis/Getty Images
RMS Titanic Inc., a Georgia-based firm, holds the legal rights to salvage the wreck of the ship, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912. The Titan submersible disaster killed all five
Negotiations between the United Kingdom, United States, France, and Canada began in 1997, and were concluded on 5 January 2000 producing an agreement. [5] [6] The UK signed the resulting agreement on 6 November 2003, [7] using a "definitive signature without reservation as to ratification", [8] and passed The Protection of Wrecks (RMS Titanic) Order 2003 under the Merchant Shipping Act to ...
On the RMS Titanic, which famously sank in 1912 after it struck an iceberg, some passengers paid up to £870 pounds for a first-class cabin, which is £105,000 or over $130,000 today.
White Star's Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, both White Star's Britannic and Cunard's Lusitania were war losses, and the three Hapag super-liners were handed over to the Allied powers as war reparations. [7] In 1916 Cunard Line completed its European headquarters in Liverpool, moving in on 12 June of that year. [29]