Amerikkka IS The Titanic-Pride Comes Before a Fall

The creator, builders, the captain, the crew and even the passengers of the Titanic all had something in common. They all believed the "Titanic" was invincible and unsinkable until it came up against a force of nature that proved otherwise. 

The iceberg that proved them all wrong. Less than half of the passengers who were on board survived. Many were wealthy. Others were on board with the hopes of becoming like these wealthy. Many of them rich and poor alike, all suffered the same fate, nevertheless.

Name:	RMS Titanic
Owner:	White Star Line
Port of registry:	Liverpool, UK
Route:	Southampton to New York City
Ordered:	17 September 1908
Builder:	Harland and Wolff,  Belfast
Yard number:	401
Laid down:	31 March 1909
Launched:	31 May 1911
Completed:	2 April 1912
Maiden voyage:	10 April 1912 (102 years ago)
In service:	10–15 April 1912
Identification:	Radio  call sign "MGY"
Fate:	Hit an iceberg 11:40 p.m. (ship's time) 14 April 1912 on its maiden voyage and sank 2 h 40 min later
Status: Wreck	RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 passengers and crew making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. The RMS Titanic,the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service, was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, and was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast with Thomas Andrews as her naval architect. Andrews was among those lost in the sinking. On her maiden voyage, she carried 2,224 passengers and crew. Under the command of Edward Smith, the ship's passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe seeking a new life in North America. A wireless telegraph was provided for the convenience of passengers as well as for operational use. Although Titanic had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, there were not enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard due to outdated maritime safety regulations. Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—slightly more than half of the number on board, and one-third her total capacity. After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912,Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York.[2] On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship's time. The collision caused the ship's hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea; the ship gradually filled with water. Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partly loaded. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a "women and children first" protocol followed by some of the officers loading the lifeboats.[3] By 2:20 a.m., she broke apart and foundered, with well over one thousand people still aboard. Just under two hours after Titanic foundered, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene of the sinking, where she brought aboard an estimated 705 survivors. The disaster was greeted with worldwide shock and outrage at the huge loss of life and the regulatory and operational failures that had led to it. You notice, Mr. Andrew, the ships architect/creator sunk along with his thought to be invincible creation, interesting. So goes Amerikkka.