Titanic sinking
Iceberg collision disaster
The Titanic sinking refers to the 1912 maritime disaster in which the British ocean liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank in the North Atlantic, killing over 1,500 people.
The event became a cultural touchstone for hubris and catastrophic failure—the "unsinkable" ship that sank.
The phrase often appears in comparisons: Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic describes futile action in the face of inevitable disaster.
- icebergFloating glacial fragment
- shipwreckDestroyed vessel at sea
- AtlanticOcean bordering Europe
- oceanMassive saltwater body
- disasterSudden ruinous event
lifeboats · women and children · drowning · survivors · passengers · hull · watertight compartments · captain · White Star Line · distress · SOS · freezing · midnight · voyage · maiden · unsinkable · tragedy · deck
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- iconic momentsmoon landing, first flight, 9/11, D-Day, MLK speech
- 20th Century HistoryWorld War I, WWI, Great Depression, Russian Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution
Titanic sinkingnatural disaster
Catastrophic environmental event
earthquake · tsunami · volcanic eruption · hurricane · act of God
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