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,
Cultural legacy of RMS Titanic Cultural legacy of RMS Titanic "RMS Titanic" has a rich legacy in films, books, memorials and museums. "Titanic" has played a prominent role in popular culture ever since her sinking. The disaster has inspired numerous books, plays, films, songs, poems and works of art, and has lent itself to a great variety of interpretations of its significance, meaning and legacy. The immediate aftermath of the sinking saw an outpouring of poetry, though much of it was dismissed by "The New York Times" as "worthless" and "intolerably bad" and by "Current Literature" as "unutterably horrible", though Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of