Timeline of United States discoveries exhaustive searching, it was in 1984 that world headlines were made when American archeological explorer Barry Clifford found the only solidly-identified pirate shipwreck ever discovered, the "Whydah". Two-hundred thousand artifacts and sunken treasures were discovered in the shipwreck as well. 1985 Puck 1985 RMS "Titanic" wreckage The RMS "Titanic" was an "Olympic" class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, in what is now Northern Ireland. At the time of her construction, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world. Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912,
RMS Titanic in popular culture an album by the singer Kirsty MacColl. The Belgian dance company Plan K performed a work called "Titanic" at the 1994 Belfast Festival in which a flotilla of refrigerators – in real life part of the cargo aboard "Titanic" – stands in for the drifting mass of ice that ultimately destroys the ship. The British composer Gavin Bryars created a multimedia work called "The Sinking of the Titanic" (1969), based on the conceit that "sounds never completely die but merely grow fainter and fainter. What if the music of the "Titanic"s band might still be playing 2,500 fathoms under the