* The RMS Titanic, a British ocean liner which was the largest and most elegant ship at that time, strikes an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic during its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912.

* May 18 – Four troopers of both SAS and SBS are parachuted onto the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, off Britain in the Atlantic, after a bomb threat and ransom demand, which turns out to be bogus.

* April 1 – The British steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.

** The wreck of the RMS Titanic ( 1912 ) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard ( WHOI ) and Jean-Louis Michel ( Ifremer ) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.

In 1972 the SBS and SAS came into prominence when members of a combined SBS and SAS team parachuted into the Atlantic Ocean after a bomb threat on board the cruise liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2.

She was 31 at the time of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, and was 46 when Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic.

A map of the route taken by William Beebe during his pheasant expeditionAfter crossing the Atlantic Ocean on the RMS Lusitania to London, where they gathered the supplies they would need for their expedition, Beebe and his team traveled across the Mediterranean Sea to Egypt, through the Suez Canal, and across the Indian Ocean to Ceylon, where they began their task of documenting the native wildfowl.

A similar incident involving a passenger ship occurred in 1992 when the Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 struck a submerged rock off Block Island in the Atlantic Ocean.

Holland America Line produced some noted ships, from the 36, 000 gross ton of 1937 ( besides the RMS Queen Mary, the only 1930s-built liner to make a profit ) and the of 1959, one of the first North Atlantic ships equipped for two-class transatlantic crossing and one-class luxury cruising.

On 11 April 1912 Queenstown was the final port of call for the RMS Titanic as she set out across the Atlantic on her ill-fated maiden voyage.

The need for ship and coast radio stations to have and use radiotelegraph equipment, and to listen to a common radio frequency for Morse encoded distress calls, was recognized after the sinking of the liner RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic in 1912.

The loss of the RMS Titanic has also been revisited following the discovery of the remains of the ship at the bottom of the Atlantic.

Back in the UK, Bruce sold the ship, and she returned to sealing, based in Dundee until appointed to be the first international North Atlantic Ice Patrol ship after the tragedy of RMS Titanic.

Based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, the company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century — most famously, the RMS Mauretania which held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, and the RMS Carpathia which rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic.

In August 1938, Tabor's status as an international power in schoolboy rowing was confirmed by their participation one of the first recorded international schoolboy competitions on American waters when a crew of Radley College oarsmen travelled across the Atlantic via the Cunard RMS Aquitania to race the Tabor Academy crew on Sippican Harbor in Marion.

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This Company became the most technically advanced ship building facilities anywhere and built the RMS Mauretania for Cunard which was launched in 1906 and held the Blue Riband as the fastest liner across the Atlantic for 26 years.

It tells the story of efforts to bring the remains of the ill-fated ocean liner RMS Titanic to the surface of the Atlantic Ocean in order to recover a stockpile of an exotic mineral that was being carried aboard.

In 1912, the RMS Titanic sunk to the bottom of the North Atlantic in one of history's most infamous maritime disasters.

* September 1-The shipwreck of the RMS Titanic ( 1912 ) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard ( WHOI ) and Jean-Louis Michel ( Ifremer ) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.

The RMS Empress of Britain was the largest ship lost to enemy action during the Battle of the Atlantic.

This review, referring to those who froze to death in the Atlantic following the sinking of the RMS Titanic, is an example of a “ pop culture reference ” review, as it is a pun on a famous quote from another film ( The Sixth Sense ).

* RMS Ionic, a steamship ocean liner built for the White Star Line ( 1883 )

In the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, a Canadian steamship, the RMS Empress of Australia and her captain, Samuel Robinson achieved international acclaim for stalwart rescue efforts during the immediate aftermath of that disaster.

* RMS Trent, a British steamship involved in the Trent Affair during the US Civil War

* RMS Carpathia was a steamship, notable for its role in the rescue of survivors from the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912

Over 500 crew and passengers ( mostly military personnel ) were lost when the steamship RMS Leinster was torpedoed and sunk by German U-Boat UB-123 on 10 October 1918.

Holbourn's remarkable luck with steamship travel held through the following May, when he embarked upon the RMS Lusitania.

On Saturday morning, October 22, 1927, Gunther and Maria M. ( Magda ) Quandt boarded the Cunard steamship RMS Berengaria at the Port of Cherbourg, France, bound for the United States, by way of England.

On January 3, 1842, one month shy of his 30th birthday, Dickens sailed with his wife, Kate, and her maid, Anne Brown, from Liverpool on board the steamship RMS Britannia bound for America.

The sinking of the steamship RMS Empress of Ireland is noted for being the largest maritime disaster in Canadian history.

* On April 15, 1912 the RMS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg with a loss of more than 1, 500 lives.

On 7 May 1915, sank the liner RMS Lusitania with a single torpedo hit, although it is debated whether a second explosion was due to flammable cargo or another torpedo.

Stanley Lord ( 13 September 1877 – 24 January 1962 ) was captain of the SS Californian, a ship that was in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic the night it sank on 15 April 1912.

* August Weikman ( 1860 – 1924 ), was serving as the Commodore Barber on the RMS Titanic when the ship hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank on April 14, 1912.

Notable vessels built at Birkenhead include HMS Achilles, HMS Affray, CSS Alabama, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Birkenhead, HMS Caroline, Huáscar, RMS Mauretania, the pioneer submarine Resurgam, HMS Thetis which sank on trials in Liverpool Bay, HMS Conqueror and HMS Prince of Wales.

A dramatic historical example of this type of jinxing is the RMS Titanic, which was said to be unsinkable, then sank on its maiden voyage.

* Walther Schwieger, German U-boat commander who sank the British liner RMS Lusitania.

* Edward Smith ( sea captain ), captain of RMS Titanic when she sank

Jane Finn was a passenger on the RMS Lusitania when it sank four years prior in 1915.

* U-20, a German U-boat that sank the oceanliner RMS Lusitania in 1915 ; ran aground on the Jutland coast in 1916, abandoned by crew and blown up by Denmark

One member of the Andrews family, Thomas, rose to fame as designer of the ill-fated RMS Titanic, although he tragically lost his life when the ship sank in 1912.

However, the closest ship to respond, the RMS Carpathia, wouldn ’ t reach Titanic until after it sank.

The hotel was to be opened on 26 April 1912, but Hays, who was returning to Canada for the hotel opening, perished aboard the RMS Titanic when it sank on 15 April.

On May 29, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence River near this village.

* William Thomas Stead, well-known philanthropist, journalist and pacifist who was aboard the RMS Titanic when it sank.

* RMS Empress of Ireland an ocean liner which sank in 1914 with a loss of 1012 lives

On January 23, 1909, Bessie A. Davis ( née Elizabeth Irwin Armstead ), the wife of Henry's son John Thomas Davis, was aboard the White Star liner RMS Republic when it collided with the Italian liner SS Florida and sank off Nantucket on the following day.

RMS Tayleur was built at Warrington in 1853, launched 4 October 1853 and sank on its maiden voyage to Australia.

In June 1940, the Mail Liner RMS Niagara sank off the islands after hitting a mine.

By 1910, Coe had become president of insurance broker Johnson & Higgins, and was involved in insuring the hull of the RMS Titanic which sank on its maiden voyage in 1912.

Addergoole parish suffered the largest proportionate loss for any locality probably in the world when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912.

* Edward Smith ( sea captain ) ( Edward John Smith, 1850 – 1912 ), captain of the RMS Titanic when she sank

The Doctor tells Jabe that he was once on another " unsinkable " ship and wound up clinging to an iceberg, an apparent reference to having been on the RMS Titanic when she sank.

The RMS Titanic was destined for the White Star pier 59 when she sank.