It Was A Titan Of A Ship
The Titanic is among the three steamships the shipbuilder Harland & Wolff conceptualized in the early 1900s. Since it was designed to be the new standard of elegance and safety, it was explicitly named by J. Bruce Ismay to fit the seacraft’s massive size and strength.
The Titanic measured close to 883 feet in length and 92.5 feet in width in its completion. According to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, that makes it the largest movable man-made object at the time. Due to its size, the ship is believed to have displaced 52,310 long tons when placed in water.
