TITANIC 1912
The movie TITANIC has touched our hearts and has us all
wishing that we could go back and change history. This
movie shows the love and the lives of some of the people
aboard the doomed ship. Even though the love story of Jack
and Rose is not true, James Cameron made sure that the
movie was an accurate tale on all other accounts. Here are
a few brief facts about the R.M.S. Titanic as it was in
1912. Also, below, are a few pics of the actual Titanic.
The grand ship, Titanic was 883 feet in length, 92 feet
wide and weighed 46,328 tons! It was the first oceanliner
to have a pool and the most luxurios of it's time. Aboard
were 20 lifeboats, which was more than the required amount
for that time, and they held a capacity of 1,178 people but
aboard the ship was 2,208 people icluding crew. Titanic
sailed for it's maiden voyage on April 10, 1912 leaving
from Southampton, England and was headed for New York.
Captain E.J. Smith was amongst the proudest to be able to
sail on Titanic. Despite many iceberg warnings from other
ships he continued to put on speed and the final ice
warning of the night was ignored by the operater so that he
could put through the messages of the first class
passengers. Titanic hit an enormous iceberg at 11:40 pm on
the night of April 14,1912 and two hours and forty minutes
later the beautiful ship sank two and a half miles to the
ocean floor at 2:20 am. 1,503 people died that morning and
only 705 survived. The sad thing is that if they would have
launched the lifeboats completely full, somewhere around
500 more people could have survived.
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