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Construction took over three years and required the labor of roughly 15,000 workers. It was a city-building a ship. Tragically, it was also a dangerous job: 246 workers were injured during construction, and eight men died, including a 15-year-old boy named Samuel Scott who was crushed by falling timbers.

: 882 feet (269 meters) long—roughly the length of three football fields—and 175 feet tall from keel to funnel. Titanic

Built in Belfast, Ireland, by the at a cost of approximately £1.5 million ($7.5 million at the time), the Titanic was the largest passenger steamer of its day. Its sheer scale was staggering: Construction took over three years and required the