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''Titanic'' was built to sail the highly-competitive North [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] route by White Star Line. Its chief competitor was Cunard, whose vessels recently garnered attention for their speed and luxury. Designed and built by the Belfast firm Harland and Wolff, ''Titanic'' was at the time of her launch and outfitting the largest ship afloat: its gross tonnage was 46,329 tons, and displaced 66,000 tons fully-laden; it was 882.5 feet long and 92.5 feet across the beam. For safety it was built with a double-bottom hull, which was further divided into sixteen watertight compartments, which would not affect the ship's stability if four were flooded.
Because of this revolutionary design, the ship was ironically branded as "unsinkable," both my media and the White Star line. In one infamous exchange, a Titanic crew member told a passenger that "God himself could not sink this ship."<ref>http://www.snopes.com/history/titanic/unsinkable.asp</ref>
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