This passionate yet balanced narrative explores every facet of the Titanic's history, including herspectacular constructionin an Irish shipyard andmaiden voyage of the "unsinkable" Titanic, which sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic in April 1912.Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, having taken with her more than 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 people on board. Even now, a century later,no other ship in history has attracted so much attention, stirred up such powerful emotion, or accumulated as many legends. Unsinkable provides a fresh look at the Titanic’s incredible story. Following the great ship from her conception to her fateful collision to the ambitious attempts to salvage her right up to the present day,Daniel Allen Butlerdraws on thirty years of research to explore the tragedy and its aftermath in remarkable depth and detail.