RMS Titanic
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The RMS Titanic was a luxury ocean liner on Earth in the early 20th century, noted as being the largest steamship of its time, carrying 2,208 passengers. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler) It was famously called "unsinkable", (TV: Robot, The End of the World) yet sank on its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912 (TV: The Invasion of Time) four hours after colliding with an iceberg at around 11:40 pm. (AUDIO: The Wreck of the Titan) The ship named Carpathia took part in the rescue operation. (COMIC: Revolutions of Terror)
Structure
The Titanic was constructed out of 46,000 tons of steel, wood, and glass. It was 9 stories high, nearly 900 feet long, and 90 feet wide. It could host up to 3500 passengers and crew. (AUDIO: The Wreck of the Titan)
Interior Locations
BOAT DECK: First Class Gymnasium, Conning Tower and Crow's nest, Bridge, Officer's Bedrooms, Telegraph Room, and located the Officer's Mess and Engineer's Smoking Room.
A DECK: First Class Lounge, Top of the First Class Grand Staircase, the Library, and the first class smoking room.
B DECK: Private Promenade decks for passengers, first class rooms, the A La Carte Restaurant, the second class library and smoking room, the poop deck and the bow.
C DECK: The Well decks, the purser's office, third class rooms, first class rooms, the barbershops and several crew dining rooms.
D DECK: First, Second, and Third Class cabins, crew dining rooms and bedrooms, the dining rooms, hospital, and the reception room.
E DECK: The longest corridor, First, Second, Third class cabins, the third class general room, crew bedrooms and dining rooms, the third class dining hall
F DECK: The First Class Spa, swimming pool, the lowest decks of the main stairwells, second and third class cabins, crew cabins and dining rooms
G DECK: The first class tennis court, third class cabins, crew cabins, stern cargo, the potato and pickle brine rooms, and the post office
ORLOP DECK: Cargo holds, the mail room, the boiler rooms 1-6, the engine rooms and stern cargo
TANKTOP DECK: Three cargo holds, fresh water tanks, boiler rooms 1-6, coal bunkers, reciprocating engine room, turbine engine room, generator engine rooms, thrustor engine, propeller shaft and the electric center
Crew
Chief Officer - Henry T. Wilde
First Officer - Lieutenant William McMaster Murdoch
Other Officers: Charles Lightoller (2nd) Herbert Pitman (3rd) Joseph Boxhall (4th) Lt. Harold Lowe (5th) James Moody (6th)
Engineers: Joseph Bell, Herbert Harvey, Jonathan Shephard, Mac Hughes, Frank Gorree, William Kelly, Eddy Taffee
Firemen: Fredrick Barret, George Beauchamp, Jamie Loomant
Purser: Hugh McElroy
Telegraph Operators: John George Phillips, Harold Sydney Bride.
There were also stewards, stewardesses, deck crew, victualling crew, the restaurant crew, the guarantee group, and the postal clerks.
Wallace Hartley served as bandmaster aboard the ship, but truly was a second class passenger. Ship's Priest was Father Thomas R. Byles, but he was also a second class passenger. (AUDIO: The Wreck of the Titan)
Passengers
Mrs Astor was among the passenger, along with her husband John Jacob. (COMIC: Revolutions of Terror)
H.P. McAdam and his daughter Dorothy, Isidor and Ida Straus, Clarence Moore, W.T. Stead, Benjamin Guggenheim, Archibald W. Butte, etc.
The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield travelled to the Titanic, tracking Huitzilin. They were on the ship when it collided with the iceberg. The Doctor noted that the event of its sinking was part of the Web of Time. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)
El Ape, a temporary travelling companion of the Seventh Doctor, actually caused the ship to sink. (COMIC: Follow That TARDIS!)
The Master, trapped on Earth in the early 20th century, boarded the Titanic when it sank, to avoid the upcoming First World War by migrating to the United States of America. (AUDIO: Mastermind)
The Fourth Doctor had an issue of the Daily Mirror describing the disaster, which he saw Borusa reading. On noticing this, the Doctor promised that he had nothing to do with the ship's destruction. (TV: The Invasion of Time)
The Daniels family cancelled their trip on the Titanic the day before it was set to depart. (TV: Rose)
The Ninth Doctor told Jabe that he had once been on a ship that "they said was unsinkable". He "ended up clinging to [the] iceberg", commentating that "it wasn't half cold." (TV: The End of the World)
Both John Hart and Jack Harkness appeared on the Titanic to claim a diamond that was lost during the disaster. John beat Jack to it, having put "the squeeze" on the heiress who owned the jewel. Taking a "trip down memory lane", the pair had sex in John's room, finishing with just seconds to go before the ship hit the iceberg. In that time, Jack used a fake tachyon meter reading to trick John, using the opportunity to lock John in his closet as he made off with both the diamond and John's vortex manipulator. John, however, was able to escape the disaster through use of a back-up jump bracelet which returned him to London in 1887 on the day of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. (AUDIO: The Death of Captain Jack)
The Eleventh Doctor was on the Titanic shortly before he visited Klimtenburg. The voyage soaked one of his napkins. (PROSE: Plague of the Cybermen)
According to Coordinator Narvin, attempts were made to evacuate women and children first, as the Titanic sank. (AUDIO: Weapon of Choice)
Legacy
Following the sinking, measures were taken place to see that such an accident would not occur again. To that end, the International Ice Patrol was formed and future ships would have round-the-clock radio surveillance and lifeboats for everyone. As the Seventh Doctor noted to Cristián Alvarez, to prevent the Titanic disaster would condemn future passengers. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)
When asked by her teacher why the Titanic sank, Mels said it was because the Doctor didn't save it, and then called the teacher stupid for not knowing. This got her sent to the head teacher's office. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
Recreation
Max Capricorn, the head of Max Capricorn Cruiseliners, constructed a starship replica of the Titanic for a voyage from Sto to Earth for the observation of "primitive cultures" on Christmas Day 2008. According to one of the Heavenly Host, the name of the replica was chosen as "the most famous vessel of the planet Earth". (TV: Voyage of the Damned) In his twelfth incarnation, the Doctor would find himself sent to the past of Sto, using the influence he had gained to fashion the starliner after its Terran counterpart. (COMIC: A Confusion of Angels)
Behind the scenes
According to the "Earth-Skaro Timescale" of Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1976, a total of 1,517 people drowned when the Titanic sank. Meanwhile, in Skaro-year 10,835, the Daleks had showered Earth's oceans with super-frost bombs which created giant ice-floes.
