Your Shortcut to... The Titanic

This week, we’re pulling out a powerful piece of history from the Squiz Kids Vault — the story of the RMS Titanic, the most famous shipwreck in the world.

More than a century ago, in April 1912 — 114 years ago last week — the Titanic set sail on its very first journey across the Atlantic Ocean. It was the biggest, most luxurious ship ever built… and it was said to be unsinkable.

But just days into that journey, everything changed.

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Links:

Rare photos from inside the Titanic before she sailed
Encyclopedia Titanica's "People" database of passengers on the ship and their fates
Video of 2004 expedition to the wreck
The exact coordinates of the Titanic wreck
25 Titanic artefacts salvaged from the wreck