The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with a gymnasium, swimming pool, smoking rooms, high-class restaurants and cafes, a Turkish bath and hundreds of opulent cabins. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from the British Isles, Scandinavia, and elsewhere throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in the United States and Canada. Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the ship. Thomas Andrews, the chief naval architect of the shipyard, died in the disaster. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. The disaster drew public attention, provided foundational material for the disaster film genre, and has inspired many artistic works. It remains the deadliest peacetime sinking of an ocean liner or cruise ship. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship up to that time. RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States. Lifeboats: 20 (sufficient for 1,178 people) Total: 3,327 (or 3,547 according to other sources)
Two three-blade wing propellers and one centre propellerĬruising: 21 kn (39 km/h 24 mph). Struck an iceberg at 11:40 pm (ship's time) 14 April 1912 on her maiden voyage and sank 2 h 40 min later on 15 April 1912 111 years ago ( )Ģ4 double-ended and five single-ended boilers feeding two reciprocating steam engines for the wing propellers, and a low-pressure turbine for the centre propeller output: 46,000 HP
Titanic departing Southampton on 10 April 1912
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