What Was the Titanic?

What Was the Titanic? is a riveting account of the legendary ship that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. Author Stephanie Sabol delves into the details of the ship's construction, the people who built it, the passengers who boarded it, and the iceberg that ended its journey. For more than one hundred years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later. At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, the largest passenger steamship of this time, met its catastrophic end after crashing into an iceberg. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew onboard, only 705 survived. More than 100 years later, today's readers will be intrigued by the mystery that surrounds this ship that was originally labeled 'unsinkable.'