Even today the RMS Titanic continues to fascinate and capture the public interest, she is still considered the most famous passenger ship even to this day. Titanic. It's that name, who would in contemporary times have the hubris and audacity to name something, anything titanic? Its name seems to tempt fate in its very existence. This enduring allure stems only partly from the scale of the tragedy, more than 1,500 lives lost. To many observers, especially the proud Britains, she and her sister, Olympic, seemed to represent the final triumph of technology over nature.