What Was the Titanic?

<b>For more than 100 years people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later.</b><br><br>At 2:20 a.m. on April 15 1912 the Royal Mail Steamer <i>Titanic</i> the largest passenger steamship of this time met its catastrophic end after crashing into an iceberg. Of the 2240 passengers and crew onboard only 705 survived. More than 100 years later today's readers will be intrigued by the mystery that surrounds this ship that was originally labeled unsinkable.<br><br><b>Look for more Who HQ books: </b><br><i>What Was the Great Chicago Fire?</i><br><i>What Was Hurricane Katrina?</i><br><i>What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?</i><br><i>Disasters!: A Who HQ Collection</i><br><b></b>