The Titanic

The Titanic

On April 10th 1912 the Titanic sailed from Southampton with 2,200 passengers and crew, four days later the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank. 1500 people died and 700 survived. The Titanic was called “The Ship of Dreams”.

Time Line
-1911, 31st May 12:00 am Titanic is Launched
-1912, 14th April 11:40 pm Frederick Fleet sights an Iceberg
-1912, 15th April 2:20 am Titanic Sinks
-1912, 18th April 9:00 pm Carpathia arrives in New York with Titanic survivors
-1985, 1st September 12:00 am Wreck of Titanic discovered

Facts
+The gash that the iceberg cut into the Titanic was between 220 to 245 feet long. The total length of the ship was about 882 feet.
+The temperature of the Atlantic at the time of sinking was 31 degrees.
+Passengers rode the stationary bicycles in the Gymnasium to pass time before the ship sank!
+The Titanic lies 12,600 feet (over 2.33 miles) at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and the two pieces of the Titanic lay 1,970 feet apart.
+Unfortunately the ship was loaded with only 20 lifeboats, which were not enough for the amount of people onboard.
+When loaded, the Titanic weighed 46,328 tons!

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Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912, four days after the Titanic set sail, The Titanic sunk slowly about and hour and a half then it split into two pieces and the front part was still hanging on to the back of it which pulled the back straight up into the air then broke off the back half hovered there for a few minutes then went straight down and into the ocean at about 2:20.

In Memory of everyone who didn’t make it that day