

Harland and Wolff practiced sectarian discrimination and hired predominantly Protestant workers.

There are many historical inaccuracies, some of them so fundamental that if they were corrected, it would completely alter the series. Mark attempts to deal with these while trying to escape his past. More setbacks stall the construction: Harland and Wolff want to save costs and use cheaper materials, the workers wish to form a trade union, the women suffrage movement heats up in the UK, and the pro Home Rule and pro-Unionist groups battle each other. However, during the construction of the Titanic, tensions rise between the lower-class workers and the rich elite. While working there, Mark falls in love with Sofia Silvestri, an Italian immigrant.

Now, with a new name and identity, he tries to hide his heritage from his employers, as he is Catholic and his employers, the Protestant elite that rule Belfast, dislike Catholics. Mark is, in truth, a Belfast native born Marcus Malone. Morgan to hire him for the biggest shipping project in the world, the construction of the RMS Titanic at Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard. Mark Muir, an engineer and metallurgist, convinces American tycoon J.P. The series follows the lives of the people who made the Titanic, from the workers who built it to its rich financiers.
