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"We sighted the lights of the best machine, the Carpathia. All of the women got into an awful commotion and jumped around. They were hallooing and the sailors were wanting to keep them sitting down, and they wouldn't normally do it. They were standing up all the time." (Daniel Buckley, a survivor of the Titanic) Right before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the most significant ship in the world, hit an iceberg, setting in action a chain of events that would ultimately make it history's most well-known, and notorious, ship. In the over a century since it sank on its maiden voyage, the Titanic has been the main topic of unlimited fascination, as evidenced by the efforts to find its last resting location; the museums packed with its items; and the many literature, documentaries, and films made about the doomed ocean liner. Thanks to the dramatization of the Titanic's sinking and the undying affinity for the story, large numbers of people are familiar with various areas of the ship's demise, and the practically 1,500 people who passed on in the North Atlantic in the first morning hours of April 15, 1912. The sinking of the ship is still practically as controversial now as it was over a century ago, and the drama is merely as compelling. The Titanic was neither the first nor previous big ship to sink, so it is clear that a lot of its appeal stems from the type of ship itself. Indeed, the Titanic sticks out not just because of its end but also for its start, specifically the fact that it was the most luxurious traveler ship ever built at that time. As well as the time it had taken to come up with the look, the giant ship took a complete three years to generate, and no work or cost was spared to dress the Titanic in the most lavish ways.
