Titanic (100th Year Anniversary)

Bruce Willhoit
Bruce Willhoit
354.3 هزار بار بازدید - 12 سال پیش - RMS Titanic facts: Owner: White
RMS Titanic facts:
Owner: White Star Line
Builder: Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Launched: 31 May 1911
Comleted: 2 April 1912
Maiden voyage: 10 April 1912
Sank: 15 Apirl 1912
Max speed: 24 kn (28 mph)
Capacity:
Passengers: 2,435 Crew: 892, Titanic carried 2,223 people when she sank.
Lifeboats: 20 for 1,178, only 709 people were in lifeboats when Titanic sank.
Time of collision: 11:40
Time afloat after collison with iceberg: Two and a half hours 2:20am...with over 1000 people still on board.
Water temperature: 28F
Rescue: RMS Carpathia...a few hours later around 4am.
Titanic wreckage depth:12,415 feet
 
Note: Titanic had 16 sets of davits (a crane-like device) This gave the ship the ability to carry 64 life boats which would have been enough for 4000 people. With only 20 lifeboats Titanic actually had much more lifeboats than was legally required. The requirments by law would soon change after the desaster
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