The ship was billed as unsinkable, having been constructed to withstand a breach of four of the ship's 16 watertight compartments. It sank just days later, during the early morning hours of April 15. The RMS Titanic, which took more than two years to build at a cost of $7.5 million (or more than $194 million in today's dollars), was launched from Southampton in England on April 10, 1912. However, we bet there is plenty you don't know about the famous ship. The movie "Titanic" was based on a real cruise ship that went by the same name, but you probably already knew that.
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