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    infamy from the very beginning. At on Wednesday April 10, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic started to depart from Southampton on its way to New York City. Just as titanic left port a dangerous suction started and pulled another ship the New York into a crash course with the immense ship and it wasn’t until the last possible minute that a huge surge of water pushed the New York out of harms way. Yet just as it seemed that disaster was averted another major problem started. In coal bunker # 5…

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    In A Night to Remember, the Titanic was a massive ship by the White Star Line. The ship was intended to carry its 1,316 passengers and 891 crew members to New York. However, at 11:40 the Titanic struck an iceberg and began to sink. By the next morning over 1,500 people had died. The incident is considered to be a huge disaster. The White Star Line is at fault for the Titanic disaster because they didn’t have enough lifeboats for everyone on board, they didn’t fill the lifeboats to maximum…

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    biggest ship in the world. It is a British ship that sink down to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The ship carried almost 4,000 passenger but it actually carried 3,547 passenger and crew is 2,223. The titanic is longest ship ever recorded, the length of it was eight thunder three it was constructed in March 31 1909 and built in Belfast in Northern Ireland. The designer of the RMS Titanic is Thomas Andrews the captain is Edward Smith he was born in January 27 1850 he died with his ship. On the…

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    Titanic is a major part of our history. According to the “R.M.S Titanic”, “The White Star liner Titanic, largest ship the world had ever known, sailed from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York on April 10, 1912.” Many assumed the Titanic was “unsinkable” because it “was believed to be the safest”. There were many passengers who had survived; however, less than ⅓ of the passengers did not survive. Miss. Emily Louisa Badman is one of many people who lived to tell their significant story.…

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    of the Atlantic Ocean, the world’s biggest and most luxurious cruise line ships just had sunk. This horrific sinking of the ship is very devastating and the ship contained roughly around 2,200 passengers on board. 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers including women, men and children, and many of the crew members working for the ship had lost their lives. That is merely more than two-thirds of the passengers that died on that ship accident. The ages of the victims that lost their lives that…

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    light of compelling new evidence. It has been uncovered that when the officer in charge of the ship was alerted by the lookouts that an iceberg had been spotted in its path, he waited a crucial half-minute before changing course. Historians believe, had William Murdoch taken action immediately, there was a chance the liner – and 1,496 lives – could have been saved. 2. The no of life boats on the ship was not enough to save everyone on board. As if the odds of survival weren’t favorable already,…

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    the amount of coal used for the ship to move is 825 tons used per day. The amount of light bulbs used on the ship was 10,000. First, the cost to build the Titanic was $7,500,000. Two of the workers were killed during the build. 20 horses needed to transport the main anchor. It took three years to build the Titanic. The maximum number of people that the Titanic could carry was 3,547 passengers. Next, the number of the people aboard was 2,223 was the passengers and crew on board. There…

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    Officer and only surviving commanding officer on the maiden and final voyage of the White Star Line’s ‘unsinkable’ Titanic. After the ship collided with an iceberg, Lightoller oversaw the of loading passengers into lifeboats on the port side, famously only allowing one man on all eleven lifeboats. Lightoller, after a narrow escape from death after going down with the ship, went on to give key testimonies for both the US inquiry and the British Board of Trade inquiry. Twenty-two years after the…

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    happened to the Titanic. Weather is the biggest contributor to this disaster. The Titanic was very luxurious. It was 46,000 tons and 882 feet in length. The ship was thought to be unsinkable, yet it was struck by an iceberg and sank about 375 miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The story is well known about the disaster. It took 1,500 passengers and crewmembers’ lives, which is about two-thirds of the total 2.200 people on board (Lipman). The weather was cold, and very calm. The north Atlantic had…

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    managing director of the White Star Line. Joseph Bruce Ismay was born at Crosby, near Liverpool on 12 December 1862. tanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean by an iceberg on 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from to New York City. made by Harland and Wolff Technical RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during…

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