The construction started on March 22, 1909. For the next twenty-six months, Harland & Wolff’s shipyard workers labored nine hours a day, six days a week, to construct the hull.

On May 31, 1911--Titanic’s empty hull slid gracefully into the River Lagan (below) on twenty-two tons of tallow, train oil, and soap. Without her signature four funnels, boilers, engines, and other weighty machinery, Titanic rode high in the water as she was towed to the fitting out basin.

From June 1911 until the end of March 1912, over three thousand carpenters, engineers, electricians, plumbers, painters, master mechanics, interior designers—craftsmen of every discipline—toiled to fit the Titanic with the latest marine technology and the most sumptuous fixtures and furniture.

At 840 feet long and 228 feet high, it was the largest scaffolding in the world and finally left Southampton on April 10, 1912.

Sadly, on the 14th of April 1912, A rock hard spur of ice intermittently punctured 250 feet of the hull.  Sadly, within three hours the largest moving object the world had ever seen would slip under the surface of the sea and disappear.