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{{Short description|Online encyclopedia about the Titanic}}
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| author = Philip Hind
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'''''Encyclopedia Titanica''''' is an online reference work containing extensive and constantly updated information on the {{RMS|Titanic}}.<ref>{{cite news |title=Encyclopedia Titanica |url=http://alacarte.lexisnexis.com/partners/int/google/landingpage.asp?id=16633409&mtid=1&ws=9j0hDk1UboE=&ws_pub=Sunday%20Life&ws_date=June%2025,%202006&ws_len=412&ws_lni=4K89-K7D0-TX7G-F2VB-00000-00&ws_lastupdate=20060713&ws_title=Netscan:%20Encyclopedia%20Titanica&ws_refer=http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=Encyclopedia+Titanica&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-11,GGGL:en&um=1&tab=wn |publisher=[[Sunday Life (newspaper)|Sunday Life]] |date=June 25, 2006 |access-date=2007-08-21 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The website, a nonprofit endeavor, is a [[database]] of passenger and crew biographies, deck plans, and articles submitted by historians or ''Titanic'' enthusiasts. In 1999, ''[[The New York Times]]'' noted that the site "may be the most comprehensive ''Titanic'' site", based on its content including passenger lists and ship plans.<ref>{{cite news |author=Rick Archbold |title=The Titanic's Mystique in Digital Packages |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1D61638F93BA35757C0A96F958260 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 8, 1999 |access-date=2013-04-25 |archive-date=2017-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215111333/https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1D61638F93BA35757C0A96F958260 |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' called it "a marvelously detailed Internet site."<ref>{{cite news |author=Lynn Voedisch |title=Searching Out A Tragedy's Victims And Survivors |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/27126956.html?dids=27126956:27126956&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+12%2C+1998&author=Lynn+Voedisch.+Special+to+the+Tribune.&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=SEARCHING+OUT+A+TRAGEDY%27S+VICTIMS+AND+SURVIVORS&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630053913/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/27126956.html?dids=27126956:27126956&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+12,+1998&author=Lynn+Voedisch.+Special+to+the+Tribune.&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=SEARCHING+OUT+A+TRAGEDY'S+VICTIMS+AND+SURVIVORS&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 30, 2013 |newspaper=[[Chicago Daily Tribune|Daily Tribune]] |date=March 12, 1998 |access-date=2013-04-25
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▲'''''Encyclopedia Titanica''''' is an online reference work containing extensive and constantly updated information on the {{RMS|Titanic}}.<ref>{{cite news |title=Encyclopedia Titanica |url=http://alacarte.lexisnexis.com/partners/int/google/landingpage.asp?id=16633409&mtid=1&ws=9j0hDk1UboE=&ws_pub=Sunday%20Life&ws_date=June%2025,%202006&ws_len=412&ws_lni=4K89-K7D0-TX7G-F2VB-00000-00&ws_lastupdate=20060713&ws_title=Netscan:%20Encyclopedia%20Titanica&ws_refer=http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=Encyclopedia+Titanica&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-11,GGGL:en&um=1&tab=wn |publisher=[[Sunday Life (newspaper)|Sunday Life]] |date=June 25, 2006 |access-date=2007-08-21 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The website, a nonprofit endeavor, is a [[database]] of passenger and crew biographies, deck plans, and articles submitted by historians or ''Titanic'' enthusiasts. In 1999, ''[[The New York Times]]'' noted that the site "may be the most comprehensive ''Titanic'' site", based on its content including passenger lists and ship plans.<ref>{{cite news |author=Rick Archbold |title=The Titanic's Mystique in Digital Packages |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1D61638F93BA35757C0A96F958260 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 8, 1999 |access-date=2013-04-25 |archive-date=2017-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215111333/https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1D61638F93BA35757C0A96F958260 |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' called it "a marvelously detailed Internet site."<ref>{{cite news |author=Lynn Voedisch |title=Searching Out A Tragedy's Victims And Survivors |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/27126956.html?dids=27126956:27126956&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+12%2C+1998&author=Lynn+Voedisch.+Special+to+the+Tribune.&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=SEARCHING+OUT+A+TRAGEDY'S+VICTIMS+AND+SURVIVORS&pqatl=google |newspaper=[[Chicago Daily Tribune|Daily Tribune]] |date=March 12, 1998 |access-date=2013-04-25 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==History==
''Encyclopedia Titanica'' was founded by Philip Hind. The website first went online on
As of 2024, the website has over 2 million visits and 8.5
==Content==
''Encyclopedia Titanica'' contains a wide range of information about the ship, her passengers and a variety of related subjects. Each passenger and crew member has a separate page containing at least basic biographical data, and many of these contain detailed biographies, photographs and contemporary news articles. The site also contains original research by professional and amateur ''Titanic'' historians from
''Encyclopedia Titanica'' also contains an active message board with (as of November 2012) over 11,700 members and 300,000 messages. Among the topics of discussion on the message board are the following:
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