Checked on 15 November 2026

Sources

Every fact on this site is checked against a cached excerpt of one of these three sources. We quote the official British report first, and we bring in Britannica and Royal Museums Greenwich where they add a measurement, a later discovery, or a disagreement worth keeping in view.

British Wreck Commissioner, Report on the Loss of the Steamship “Titanic”, 30 July 1912 (Project Gutenberg EBook #39415)

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39415

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Titanic

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Titanic

Royal Museums Greenwich, RMS Titanic facts

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-history/rms-titanic-facts

The inquiry text we use is the Project Gutenberg edition of the official 1912 report (EBook no. 39415), itself a public-domain government document. Page images and later popular books are not treated as sources here.

See also the fact-check log and the photograph credits.