In 1981, a businessman named Tung Chao-yung purchased a newly made supertanker from Japan's Sumitomo Heavy Industries.

When it set sail in 1912, ill-fated Titanic was the largest ... and how do other cruise ships compare? Here's a quick rundown ...

Not only does it hold the title of world’s largest cruise ... Royal Caribibean, PA/PA Wire In comparison to the RMS Titanic, the largest ship of its time before it sank in 1912, Icon of the ...

In fact, the famously doomed Titanic weighed just (that being a relative term) 46,329 gross tons and was 852.5 feet long. It was also the biggest ship in the world when it was launched.

it's worth Rs... World’s Biggest Cruise Ship: When we talk about luxury cruise ships, the name that pops up in our mind is Titanic. The British ocean liner Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 after ...

Liverpool lad Jimmy McGann wangles a job in Titanic’s engine room. A passenger called Esther Hart has a terrifying premonition. And the gargantuan ship claims her first victim - before even ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Titanic was the biggest ship on the sea when she was launched in May 1911. She was as tall as Nelson's Column in London.

The richest man aboard was John Jacob Astor IV, widely believed to have been the richest man in the world at ... to build the Titanic, which was the largest and most luxurious ship at the time ...

The Olympic was the largest ship in the world until the Titanic launched the following year. Experts suggest the Titanic was about three inches bigger, and much heavier. News stories about the ...