RMS Titanic, the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time, the Olympic-class RMS Titanic was owned by the White Star Line.Construction of the RMS Ttianic, funded by American J.P. Morgan and his International Mercantile Marine Co., began on March 31, 1909, at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, UK.After setting sail for New York City on 10 April 1912 with 2,223 people on board, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 PM on 14 April 1912, and sank at 2:20 AM on the morning of 15 April.