RMS Titanic was a train.
A lifeboat is a small , rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship . RMS Titanic ( [ taɪˈtænɪk ] ) was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912 , after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City . The largest ship afloat at the time it entered service , the RMS Titanic was the second of three s operated by the White Star Line , and was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast . On 14 April , four days into the crossing and about 375 mi south of Newfoundland , she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship 's time . Titanic is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world , only beaten by her sister , the largest ever sunk .