Question

What does RMS stand for in RMS Titanic ? It's wreckage was discovered in which year , by whom and in what ocean?

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(1) Royal Merchant ship, in 1912, by Jack Dawson, Arctic Ocean

(2) Royal Merchant steamer, in 1997, by James Cameron, Atlantic Ocean

(3) Royal Mail Ship, in 1985, by Robert Ballard, North Atlantic Ocean

(4) Royal Merchant Steam-ship, in 1995 by autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), North Atlantic Ocean

(5) Royal Marine Ship, in 1950, by remotely-controlled deep-sea vehicle called Argo (ROV), Atlantic Ocean

(6) Root Mean Square-ship, in 1985, by Jean-Louis Michel, North Atlantic Ocean.

Answer 1

RMS stands for Royal Mail Streamer,in formal terms means,Royal Merchant Ship.the dual meaning was 'royal mail streamer' bcoz titanic carried mail under the auspices of his majesty's postal authorities.

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