Titanic

RMS Titanic
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RMS Titanic departing Southampton on 10 April 1912 |
Career | |
Name: | RMS Titanic |
Owner: | White Star Line |
Port of registry: | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
Route: | Southampton to New York City |
Ordered: | 17 September1908 |
Builder: | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
Yard number: | 401 |
Laid down: | 31 March 1909 |
Launched: | 31 May 1911 |
Completed: | 2 April 1912 |
Maiden voyage: | 10 April 1912 |
In service: | 10 April 1912 |
Identification: | Radio callsign "MGY" |
Fate: | Hit an iceberg 11:40 pm (ship's time) 14 April 1912 on her maiden voyage and sank 2h 40m later |
Generalcharacteristics |
Class & type: | Olympic-class ocean liner |
Tonnage: | 46,328 GRT |
Displacement: | 52,310 tons |
Length: | 882 ft 6 in (269.0 m) |
Beam: | 92 ft 0 in (28.0 m) |
Height: | 175 ft (53.3 m) (keel to top of funnels) |
Draught: | 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m) |
Depth: | 64 ft 6 in (19.7 m) |
Decks: | 9 (A–G) |
Installed power: | 24 double-ended and 5 single-ended boilers feeding tworeciprocating steam engines for the wing propellers and a low-pressure turbine for the center propeller;[1] output: 46,000 HP |
Propulsion: | Two 3-blade wing propellers and one 4-blade centre propeller |
Speed: | Cruising: 21 kn (39 km/h; 24 mph). Max: 24 kn (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
Capacity: | Passengers: 2,435, crew: 892 |
Notes: | Lifeboats: 20 for 1,178 people |
RMS Titanic was a Britishpassenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,502 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. The RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. She was the second ofthree Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, and she was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast with Thomas Andrews, who perished with the ship, as her naval architect. On her maiden voyage, she carried 2,224 passengers and crew.
Under the command of Edward Smith, her passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrantsfrom Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe seeking a new life in North America. The ship was designed to be the last word in comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. She also had a powerful wireless telegraph provided for the convenience of passengers as well as for operational use. Thoughshe had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, she lacked enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard. Because of outdated maritime safety regulations, she carried only enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—slightly more than half of the number travelling on the maiden voyage, and one-third her total passenger and crew capacity.After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading westwards towards New York.[2] On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm ship's time. The glancing collision caused Titanic's hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard sideand opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea; the ship gradually filled with water. Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partly loaded. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a "women and children first" protocol followed by the officers loading the lifeboats. By 2:20 AM, she broke apart...