Greenwich, England, or Greenwich, Connecticut? -- Anonymous
Is it RMS (Royal Mail Ship according to
http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym?rms)? -- Anonymous
It's Royal Mail Steamer per
http://www.rmstitanic.net/rmst/faqs/rms_faq11.htm. <>< tbc
I moved HMS Titanic to S.S., and added a redirect. --
Belltower
Blast, that would be the third change (after me making the initial error of H.M.S. Titanic).
According to this website, you are absolutely correct :
http://www.rmstitanic.net/rmst/faqs/rms_faq11.htm
Arco Scheepen
OK, is there another way to make sure? Anyone owns a book on the topic to verify www.rmstitanic.net? -
Yooden
Interestingly the on-board newpaper of the Titanic refers to it as the SS Titanic:
SEE:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Carpathia/page10.htm. I will see if I can find any more primary source information.
sjc
Both SS and RMS are valid titles for it. I added a note to this effect on the main page. --
Belltower
Was hte Titanic the worst maritime disaster? Dispite this wide-held belief, it seems fale. I refer to:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/faqs/sh1.htm - this seems an authorative source for correction.
...I don't have time currently to update this entry sufficiently to do the rest of hte writing justice. :( --
Nemo
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