RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passe liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, NI. On the night of 14 April 1912, during her maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg, and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on 15 April 1912, with the loss of 1514 lives. At the time of her launching in 1912, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world.