It has been over a century since the Royal Mail Steamer, Titanic, met its tragic end in the Atlantic Ocean on its voyage to America. Instead of reaching New York, its final destination was in the depths of the ocean on April 15, 1912. The creators of the Titanic believed that the ship was "unsinkable" and could not be defeated by the laws of nature (Ryan 28). This audacity explains the emotional impact that the sinking had on the public. It was not believed that the ship could have sunk due to slow and unreliable communication. At first, many newspapers reported that the ship had collided with an iceberg, but remained floating and was towed back to port with everyone on board (Reade 23). It took many hours for the truth to become known, but people still had difficulty accepting that the ship could sink and cause more than 1,500 deaths. In 1906, J. Bruce Ismay, general manager of White Star, discussed building three large ships with a shipbuilding company. Harland and Wolff (Gill 32). Wanting to create extraordinary ships each measuring 882 feet long and 92 feet wide, which would make them the largest steamships of the time (Gill 32). In March 1909, they began construction on the second of these ships, the Titanic, and built non-stop until the spring of 1911 (Gill 32). On May 31, 1911, the Titanic, the largest man-made moving object in the world, sailed into the River Lagan in Belfast. More than 100,000 people attended the first launch, which lasted just over a minute. On the morning of April 10, 1912, 914 passengers boarded the Titanic from Southampton, England; at noon, the ship was heading to Cherbourg, France, then to Queenstown, Ireland. At these stops, a few dozen got off and about a hundred boarded by the time the Titanic left Queen...... middle of paper ......ic>."Titanic Passenger List, Passengers first class." Titanica Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 24, 2008. Paul Rogers. "The Titanic and the Indifferent Stranger". Encyclopedia-titanica.org. Retrieved 03/28/2014. Canfield, Clarke (March 8, 2012). "Complete Titanic site mapped for 1st time". The Associated Press. Retrieved March 29, 2014. Ryan, Paul R. (winter 1985/86). "The Tale of the Titanic". Oceanus (Woods Hole, MA: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) 4 (28). “New Titanic Belfast Resort Opens”. BBC News. March 31, 2012. Retrieved April 9, 2014. Mersey, Lord (1999) [1912]. The loss of the Titanic, 1912. The Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-11-702403-8. Gill, Anton (2010). Titanic: the true story of how the world's most famous ship was built. Channel 4 Books. ISBN 978-1-905026-71-5. The sinking of the Titanic, 1912," EyeWitness to History www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2000).