The Titanic

In 1912, one of the most majestic ships of all times—the Titanic—set sail for America from England. The ship held not only some of the world’s wealthiest people but also hundreds of immigrants hoping to find a new life in America. Sadly, many of those on board never reached American shores.

On the fifth night of the ship’s first voyage, disaster struck when the ship came into deadly contact with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. The force of the contact caused the ship, which had once been called “unsinkable,” to be doomed.

By the end of the night, 1,500 of the 2,200 people on board would be dead. Too few lifeboats and inadequate safety procedures caused the demise of those who might have survived the terrible tragedy. For many, what happened to the Titanic is considered one of the greatest shipwrecks of all time.