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Titanic
Titanic was the biggest passenger liner when she set off for her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. After four days, she hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean resulting in the death of 1,517 people.
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Who designed the furniture for the Titanic?
The Titanic was built by Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast, Ireland for the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, better known as the White Star Line.
Why don't they make another Titanic?
Because, in effect, it is pointless. Today's luxury cruise ships have everything the Titanic did and more, are much, much safer and better constructed, must meet higher standards, etc. There is no real reason to build a "second Titanic".
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They did make a second Titanic and a third, the Olympic and the Britannic. These sister ships were nearly identical in every way to the Titanic.
The use of the name Titanic has probably not been reissued to another ship is probably to do with superstition or respect for the relatives of the largest loss of life on a passenger ship.
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Wh was the highest ranking officer to survive the Titanic?
A baby in Third-Class, Elizabeth Gladys (Millvina) Dean (and her brother, Bertram), who survived on lifeboat #10, was the last living survivor of the sinking of Titanic, having died on May 31st 2009 at 97.
Ellen Shine (Callahan), another Third-Class passenger, lived to be the grandmother of future New York City Council speaker, Christine Quinn.
No, she struck twenty minutes beforehand at 11:40 but the sinking was well underway by midnight.
Where was the captain of the titanic seen last on the ship?
On the bridge trying to save the ship Wrong...In the movie that last place that the captain was seen in was the steering room. Where the wheel was. The water was about to bust through the windows, and it did and that's the last place we see the captain at.
What was the name of the ship that heard the titanic distress call?
It is documented that the Titanic's distress call was picked up by The Mount temple, Frankfurt, Carpathia, Prinz Adalbert and the Titanic's sister ship the Olympic.
The ship that responded (was nearest) was the Carpathia, and this picked up the survivors.
Were jack and rose real lovers from titanic?
no the whole story about jack and rose is completely fictional (except for the part about the boat sinking) so anyone associated with them is fictional also
How many storeys high was the titanic?
11. There was the roof, on top of the boat deck structure.
The Boat deck
A-Deck
B-Deck
C-Deck
D-Deck
E-Deck
F-Deck
G-Deck
Orlop Deck
Tanktop Deck
Did titanic lower it's speed when approaching the iceberg?
Titanic had less than forty seconds between the sighting and the collision with the iceberg. She could steer but not slow down. Even modern ships with diesels take minutes to reverse at the best of times.At a speed of between 19 and 25 knots (about 23 at the time of impact) it would have taken about a mile to 4 miles to slow the vessel. Even turning to port still would have, because of the initial forward momentum have caused the vessel to keep going forward. Unlike a road vehicle shipping takes a greater distance to turn or to stop
Is the titanic called the unsinkable titanic?
It was considered so. Because of the system of watertight compartments.
It was also thought to be "unsinkable" because it was such a big ship. It was the biggest ship ever (biggest and best) and noone things the biggest (and/or best) will ever fail (sink)
Today it is not know as the unsinkable Titanic and before it sank nobody said it was unsinkable. The closest anybody came to saying it was unsinkable was on a poster advertising the ship saying Titanic is as unsinkable as is reasonably possible.
Where can you buy a titanic submersible model?
eBay but might not want to buy one for 300$ I got mine at Annie blooms books for 25$ so probably there
What was the unsinkable ship that sank in 1912?
Many ships sunk in 1912, but I'd say the most memorable one would have to be the Titanic. It sunk April 15. Around 1-2:30 a.m.
How many boats came back to look for survivors on titanic?
Two of the sixteen lifeboats went back to find survivors. They found 9 people in the water but only 6 survived. The first boat, Lifeboat 4, pulled 5 people from the water but two died in the boat. The second boat, Lifeboat 14, found 4 survivors, but one died in the lifeboat.
When asked why they did not go back sooner to help people, Officer Harold Lowe, who headed Lifeboat 14, said "it would have been suicide to go back there until the people had thinned out." He was afraid that those drowning would have overturned or swamped the lifeboat.
Including passengers and crew, there were 2,208 people onboard. 1,503 people died, leaving 705 survivors. Only 962 lifeboat seats were required by law, though the Titanic's lifeboats could have held 1,178. There were 472 lifeboat seats that went unused.
First of all Brass doesn't corrode and it does not magnetize. Next the reason it is recorded on a brass plaque is to show record of where the ship was built and to provide a permanent hull # and year it was built or commissioned.
How much did it cost for tickets on titanic from Southampton to New York in 1912?
First Class: On average about 1,000 pounds but since there was no fixed rates a first class ticket could cost much more or a little less.
Second Class: On average about 450 pounds but again since there was no fixed rates prices could be very different.
Third Class: On average costs about 30 pounds but because of no fixed rates it could be a little more or a little less.
These are just averages a ticket could cost much more of much less.
Where did titanic stop to pick up more passangers?
Southampton, UK; Cherbourg, France; and then Queenstown, Ireland.
How long did it take for the Titanic to sink from the moment of impact to complete submersion?
The Titanic was a heavy storage ship, so it took about15 minutes for the water to fill the storage rooms, and the Titanic was a very large and heavy ship so that took less time, so about 7 minutes to sink.
Were there enough lifeboats on the titanic for all passengers?
This is more of a random fact, but the reason why there weren't enough boats on the Titanic was because a few years before a boat had sunk and there were too many life boats, so the designers only outfitted life boats on the Titanic for decoration more than anything else, as they thought it would never sink.
The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, it was eventually paired down to twenty.
Lifeboat number 6 was designed to hold 65 people.
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What country built the titanic?
The Titanic, registered as a British mail ship was really owned by the American railroad tycoon.
Is everything in stories about the titanic true?
Pop culture has perpetuated many but simple bad information gets recycled, even a century later.
How many hours did the engines of the Titanic do?
The Titanic had two four-cylinder, triple-expansion, inverted reciprocating steam engines and one low pressure Parsons turbine. Steam came from 29 boilers which used 159 coal burning furnaces. They were big. I'm not sure of the weight of the engines.
Engine was 30 feet in height and weighed 1000 tons. The high-pressure cylinder was 54 inches in diameter and the Intermediate-Pressure cylinder was 84 inches in diameter and the low-pressure cylinder was 97 inches in diameter. The operating speed was 75rpm and stroke was 75 inches.
The specifications of the engine room was: the Reciprocating-engine room 69 feet;
the Turbine-engine room 57 feet; and the Electric-engine ROM 63 feet.
There were twenty-four double ended boilers and five single ended boilers which were housed in six boiler rooms. The double ended boilers were 20 feet long, had a diameter of 15 feet 9 inches and contained six coal burning furnaces. The single ended boilers were 11 feet 9 inches long with the same diameter and three furnaces. Smoke and waste gasses were expelled through three funnels. (I believe one of the funnels was a fake.)
