- Name: RMS Titanic
- Owner: White Star Line
- Port of registry: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Liverpool, United Kingdom
- 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 (not christened)
- Completed: 2 April 1912
- Maiden voyage: 10 April 1912
- Identification: Radio callsign "MGY"
- Fate: Foundered on 15 April 1912 on her maiden voyage
- Class and type: Olympic-class ocean liner
- Tonnage: 46,328 GRT
- Displacement: 52,310 tons
- Length: 882 ft 6 in (269.0 m)
- Beam: 92 ft 0 in (28.0 m)
- Height: 175 ft (53.3 m) (keel to top of funnels)
- Draught: 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m)
- Depth: 64 ft 6 in (19.7 m)
- Decks: 9 (A–G)
- Installed power: 24 double-ended and 5 single-ended boilers feeding two reciprocating steam engines for the wing propellers and a low-pressure turbine for the center propeller;output: 46,000 HP
- Propulsion: Two 3-blade wing propellers and one 4-blade centre propeller
- Speed: Cruising: 21 kn (39 km/h; 24 mph). Max: 24 kn (44 km/h; 28 mph)
- Capacity: Passengers: 2,435, crew: 892
- Lifeboats: 20 for 1,178 people
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