RMS Titanic by numerous works of popular culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials. "Titanic" is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only beaten by her sister , the largest ever sunk, although she holds the record as the largest sunk while actually in service as a liner due to "Britannic" being used as a hospital ship at the time of her sinking. The final survivor of the sinking, Millvina Dean, aged two months at the time, died in 2009 at the age of 97. The name "Titanic" was derived the Titan of Greek mythology and meant
Stadt Zürich (ship, 1855) Stadt Zürich (ship, 1855) The Stadt Zürich was a Swiss steamship, built in 1855, that plied Lake Constance. She was given the nickname "Teufelsschiff" ("Devil's Ship") because she was involved in three serious collisions with other craft and was said to have sunk more German ships than the Danish navy during the Second Schleswig War. The "Stadt Zürich", like her sister ship, the "Thurgau", was one of the largest and most powerful flush deck steamers on Lake Constance; these ships beginning their service in the mid-1850s. In 1870, the "Stadt Zürich" underwent her first conversion. In 1884, the ship was