Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic returned to the White Star Line at New York Harbor, as they were the only items of value salvaged from the shipwreck, but subsequently vanished from history over time. "Titanic" had 20 lifeboats of three different types: The main lifeboats and cutters were built by Harland and Wolff at Queen's Island, Belfast at the same time that "Titanic" and her sister ship were constructed. They were designed for maximum seaworthiness, with a double-ended design (effectively having two bows). This reduced the risk that they would be flooded by a following sea (i.e. having waves breaking over the stern). If a
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