Both British
Which was larger, Lusitania or Titanic? A: Titanic was larger. Titanic was 46,328 gross registered tons (GRT) while Lusitania was 31,550 GRT. Keep in mind that GRT is a measure of enclosed space and not weight.
Both ships were huge: the Titanic was carrying 2,207 passengers and crew on the night it went down; the Lusitania had 1,949. The mortality figures were even closer, with a 68.7% death rate aboard the Titanic and 67.3% for the Lusitania.
Comparing the Symphony of the Seas vs the Titanic, Royal Caribbean's biggest ship categorically dwarfs the Titanic's size in every way, more than doubling its passenger capacity and nearly quintupling its gross tonnage.
At the time of her completion, Lusitania was briefly the largest ship ever built, but was soon eclipsed by the slightly larger Mauretania which entered service shortly afterwards.
Despite the different reasons for sinking, the tales of the two ships carry some remarkable similarities: Both ships carried a similar composition of passengers and were unable to accommodate everyone aboard on the lifeboats. (In the case of the Titanic there simply were not enough boats for everyone.
Titanic's unique manner of sinking—allowing for drama to play out—meant there was far more human drama than Lusitania's quick demise. While the Lusitania's sinking had larger geopolitical ramifications, Titanic's sinking in peacetime meant more fodder for the press to continuously expand on the story.
Some relatives of passengers who died on RMS Titanic condemned the project to build a replica ship as insensitive. Blue Star Line was flooded with inquiries from potential customers, some offering up to GBP 640,000 to book Titanic 2's inaugural cruise. The replica ship is expected to enter service in 2024 or 2025.
At about five times the size of Titanic, the world's largest cruise ship is Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas. Spanning 18 decks, Wonder is the fifth Oasis Class cruise ship to be launched. Size is everything with Symphony, as she is 1,188 feet in length.
Originally smaller, jumboisation made Seawise Giant the largest ship ever by length, displacement (657,019 tonnes), and deadweight tonnage. The largest and longest ships ever to be laid down per original plans.
Among the prominent American victims were such luminaries of the day as the theatrical impresario Charles Frohman, the popular writer Elbert Hubbard and the very rich Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.
Following that ordeal George, who was from London, remained at sea. And now his family have revealed he was believed to have been on board the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk during Word War One.
An incredible story of a real life 'Uncle Albert' has emerged - a sailor who survived both the Titanic and the Lusitania disasters. George Beauchamp is the only person to escape alive from the two worst maritime disasters of the 20th century.
While the Titanic is remembered as being one of the largest ships of its time, the Britannic was actually somewhat larger. The Britannic was 882 feet (269 meters) in length, while the Titanic was 882 feet and 9 inches (269.1 meters) in length and with a gross tonnage of 48,158 compared to the Titanic's 46,328.
They were Olympic (1911), Titanic (1912) and Britannic (1914). All three were designed to be the largest and most luxurious passenger ships at that time, designed to give White Star an advantage in the transatlantic passenger trade.
The Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic, sinks in the Aegean Sea on November 21, 1916, killing 30 people. More than 1,000 others were rescued.
The iceberg that the Titanic collided with was approximately 50 to 100 feet high and between 200 and 400 feet long. This iceberg, large enough to cause the infamous disaster, was only a fraction of its actual size as about 90% of it was underwater.
The lookouts along with the officers on the bridge knew that a calm ocean would make icebergs hard to see with no breaking water at the base. It was also extremely cold that night with sea surface temperatures reportedly at 28 degrees -- a lethal temperature for any person.
Three small dogs, two Pomeranians and a Pekingese, survived the Titanic disaster cradled in their owners' arms as they climbed into lifeboats.
The new ship is slated to follow the same route as Titanic, carrying passengers across the Atlantic from Southampton, England, to New York City. Some reports have its inaugural sailing from Dubai to Southampton, and then to the Big Apple, after which it will regularly run Titanic's original itinerary.
When the collision occured the order was quickly given for women and children to be placed in the lifeboats, despite this 61 children died in the Titanic disaster: one first class child passenger, two second class, and an astonishing fifty-seven third class. Both child crew members were lost.
124 children on board, 94 perished, including 31 of 35 infants. Worth noting is that the often quoted number of 1,195 lost is the “official” number (this site numbers 1,193 lost), and 1,198 (1,197 on this site) includes the stowaways.
Around 109 children were onboard when the titanic sank. And about half of the number, around 59 to 60 children, died. Only one child travelling in first class died. The others were children of third-class passengers.