<<< Return to Spanish version [Press PLAY to listen "Hymn to the sea" while you read the post] Sometimes things occur around the world of such intensity that resonates over time, producing a kind of echo. The story of the Titanic causes a particular effect on who listen it, almost as if it were a Bible story: that huge ship, all those people in the ocean at night, the iceberg... The Royal Mail Steamer Titanic was the product of an intense competition between British shipping companies in the first half of the twentieth century. White Star Line was in a battle for supremacy of steamship with Cunard Line, famous for the construction of two of the most sophisticated and luxurious ships of that time. On the one hand, Mauretania had set a speed record in transatlantic crossing. On the other hand, Lusitania, whose tragic final came in the annals of history when a torpedo launched by a German submarine sank it, precipitating the entry of the United S...