RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912; after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

Of the 2;224 passengers and crew aboard; more than 1;500 died in the sinking; making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. The largest ship afloat at the time it entered service; the RMS Titanic was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line; and was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.