engineering disaster: sinking of rms titanic (1912) the titanic was the biggest and the most luxurious ship on the sea in 1912. it was the most expensive cruise then and was advertised to be unsinkable. the ship was advertised to such a level that people from all over the united kingdom had planned to travel on its first voyage. being an extremely luxurious cruise ship, many prominent people had booked to travel on its maiden trip. the trip was supposed to connect southampton, england to new