Hull of the RMS Titanic under construction
The hull of the Titanic was under construction in dry dock on May 31, 1911. The sinking of the White Star ocean liner has been blamed in part on low-grade rivets that builders used on some parts of the vessel.
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Less than 24 hours after RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, Billings residents 3,000 miles away were reading the first dispatches from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest port to the scene of unimaginable tragedy.