How exactly did the R.M.S titanic sink and what year?
It struck an iceburg and sank in 1912. Many people look at the way the rivets used to hold the steel together were incorrectly made, and as such they gave way easier than they should have. this is what wikipedia.org says Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner that became infamous for her collision with an iceberg and for her dramatic sinking on 14 April 1912. The second of a trio of superliners, she and her sisters were designed to provide a three-ship weekly express service and dominate the transatlantic travel business for the White Star Line.[1] Built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of her sinking. During Titanic’s maiden voyage (from Southampton, England; to Cherbourg, France; Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland; then New York), she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship’s time) on Sunday evening 14 April 1912, and sank two hours and forty minutes later, after breaking into two pieces at the aft expansion joi