ROYAL MAIL STEAMER monumental scale was the largest ship in the world and the largest moving man made object too.

The ostensibly unsinkable Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic had an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg and went under the waves :-(