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 deaths 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 who died in the sinking. On her maiden voyage, she carried 2,224 passengers and crew.