how long did it take to build the titanic

The construction of the Titanic took about 26 months, starting from the laying of the keel on March 31, 1909, to its launch on May 31, 1911. This timeline involved around 3,000 shipbuilders working at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, where the ship was built alongside its sister ship Olympic. The construction was a massive engineering feat, involving millions of iron and steel rivets and the use of the largest shipyard gantry in the world at the time. The project also saw a human cost with eight fatalities and 246 injuries recorded during the build period.