![]() However RMS Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Just about any other angle of collision would have damaged the ship but may not have sunk it. The collision was an unfortunate one as it was a glancing blow which damaged several of the "watertight" compartments into which Titanic was divided. While there are many "conspiracy theories" about the foundering of Titanic, including that the ship which sank was actually the sister-ship Olympic engaged in a botched insurance fraud, the accepted view is that on a moonless and very still, but slightly hazy night, long before the advent of RADAR, the world's largest liner steamed into an iceberg.
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