RMS Titanic Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
British transatlantic passenger liner, launched and foundered in 1912
About RMS Titanic
—Philip A.S. Franklin, vice-president of the White Star Line in New York Nowadays, most people cross the Atlantic by air. But the first transatlantic flight was not until 1919, and commercial flights only began in the late 1930s, only to be interrupted by wartime shortly thereafter. These early flights combined the expense of first-class liners with the comfort of third-class, and right up into the 1960s, most people crossed the Atlantic by ocean liner. Then jet aircraft range, reliability and capacity made them the preferred method, and shipping companies withered until re-inventing themselves for thecruise business. In the late 19th and early 20th century, European shipping lines competed for the lucrative transatlantic trade. There was urgent mail and freight, and there were passengers
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