Was the Titanic really called 'unsinkable'?
The myth of unsinkability was created after the ship sank.
The answer
The White Star Line never officially marketed the Titanic as 'unsinkable.' The shipbuilder's magazine The Shipbuilder described her as 'practically unsinkable' due to her 16 watertight compartments, and this qualifier was dropped by the press after the disaster. On April 15, 1912, the ship sank after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage, killing over 1,500 of the 2,224 people aboard - partly because regulations only required lifeboats for about half the passengers, a rule based on ship tonnage rather than passenger capacity.
Source: Britannica
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