Synopsis"Designed to be unsinkable" according to Shipbuilder magazine, the Titanic pushed back boundaries of technological achievement in the golden age of ocean- going travel.This narrative history--drawn from the largest photo archive in the world--tells and shows in many never before seen photographs, the story of her tragic maiden voyage in which more than 1,500 souls were lost in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean., When she was launched on May 31, 1911, RMS Titanic was the largest movable object on Earth. A crowd of over 100,000 gathered just to watch this 882-foot, 46,000-ton leviathan slide down the slipway.The Titanic foundered four days later, on its maiden voyage, and has been an object of fascination and obsession for 100 years since., "Designed to be unsinkable" according to Shipbuilder magazine, the Titanic pushed back boundaries of technological achievement in the golden age of ocean- going travel.This narrative history drawn from the largest photo archive in the world tells and shows in many never before seen photographs, the story of her tragic maiden voyage in which more than 1,500 souls were lost in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean."