Ocean Liners have made great subjects for art over the years. Many of which have been on posters advertising cruises. The most famous cruise of all time of course being that of the tragic Titanic.

The Titanic of course has inspired many posters and art from tons of movies including the biggest movie of all time 1997's Titanic.

The ship herself was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by British shipping company White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom. For her time, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world.

Thanks to the many aforementioned movies we all are familiar with the tragic story. On the night of 14 April 1912, during the ship's maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on 15 April 1912. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Had she had more lifeboats that number would have been remarkably lower. The ship had a total lifeboat capacity of 1,178 people, although her capacity was 3,547. A disproportionate number of men died due to the women-and-children-first protocol that was followed.

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Here we have a recreation of an ad selling a cruise on the Titanic from Southhamptom, England to New York City, New York. We see the name of Titanic's owner, "White Star Line". We get an idea of how large the ship is by  the smallness  of  the tugboat next to it. The ad also contains the slogan, "The World's Largest Liner". This cruise of course was Titanic's maiden and last tragic voyage. On the maiden voyage of the Titanic some of the most prominent people of the day were traveling in first–class including millionaire John Jacob Astor IV,  industrialist Benjamin Guggenheim, Macy's owner Isidor Straus, and Margaret "Molly" Brown.

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