Titanic commemorative coin

Titanic commemorative coin, in excellent condition, comes with protective case RMS Titanic, built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making the sinking at the time one of the deadliest of a single ship and the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship to date. With much public attention in the aftermath, the disaster has since been the material of many artistic works and a founding material of the disaster film genre. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was Thomas Andrews, chief naval architect of the shipyard at the time, died in the disaster. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in the United States. The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with a gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants, and opulent cabins. The Titanic had advanced safety features, such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors. Titanic carried only a total of 20 lifeboats, enough for 1,178 people—about half the number on board. After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland, before heading west to New York. On 14 April, four days into the crossing she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship's time. Just under two hours after Titanic sank, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived and brought aboard about 710 survivors.