how, why and what was the rms titanic ship made for?

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can you please tell me what the initial goals, scope and specification of the titanic was before it was built.
how was the production organised, which companies/people were involved and what strategy was selected
what risks were considered at the time of production and what (including the iceberg) were not considered as risks
was the project in the end considered a success or was it failure as in the end they did make a ship that floats even though it never made it.

thanks for your help

Southpaw · Accepted Answer

RMS means Royal Mail Ship ( no transatlantic aircraft at that time ), so that was one of its main intended functions on the transatlantic run. 
It was built to compete with with the ships of other lines doing the same run, such as the Lusitania, which ironically was torpedoed by the Germans off the old Head of Kinsale, Ireland soon after.
It was luxuriously fitted out to attract top paying customers, but was also to cater for emigrants from the UK and Ireland ( and France on its maiden voyage ) to carry them to Canada and the USA.
 It was the second of three sister ships built in Belfast for the White Star line, the others being the Olympic and Britannic.
If you want to know all about it then read "A Night To Remember" by Walter Lord.
Here is a useful write up, but you can Google more yourself;
http://titanic.wikia.com/wiki/RMS_Titanic
The Titanic was considered an excellent ship, as were its sisters, but it is obviously only now remembered as a disaster.
 Regards,  Bob.

? · Answer

Given the info that great isn't a huge deliver via todays standards, metallic technologies and qc have moved on plenty, and how how ships are made (welded extra effective than riveted in recent times) has additionally moved on plenty, then i could say that a renowned deliver stands a a procedures extra effective possibility of surviving the kind of impact that sank RMS great.

Anonymous · Answer

Ironically though the Titanic probably got far more publicity for White Star Line than they could have hoped for. This in turn could have generated more revenue than the Titanic would have done had she not struck  the iceberg. 

But maybe they had anticipated that...

? · Answer

not going to do your homework for you how ever three ships were built one of then the titanic by whitestar liners

The original Peter G · Answer

Titanic was built to be a fast economical and safe transatlantic transport, for the Southampton to New York run. Unfortunately nobody thought it would have several of the watertight compartments simultaneously breached. It was assumed that in the case of any incident any ship would stay afloat and limp to port, that's why the lifeboats count was severely deficient. After the disaster the Board of Trade insisted on several things for British registered ships, sufficient lifeboats being one, and a 24 hour radio watch being another

Anonymous · Answer

titanic was a cruise liner, it was a huge success, minus that tiny little iceberg incident :D

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