Post on 20-Aug-2015
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Building the TitanicBuilt by the White Star Line883 ft long92 ft wide46,328 tons104 ft high29 boilers3 propellers3 million rivets16 water-tight compartments
Setting SailSet sail on Thursday April 11, 19122223 people on boardLeft Queenstown, Ireland for New YorkThe captain’s name was Edward J. Smith
Disaster!11:40 pm Sunday, April 14,
1912 the Titanic hit an iceberg
The hole was over 300ft longFirst lifeboat was launched at
12:40 am with only 19 people on board
It took 160 minutes for the Titanic to sink
Rescue!
Carpathia comes to the rescueWhen it received the SOS it
was 60 miles awaySome of the people were in
lifeboats for 4 hours1517 souls perishedOnly 706 people survived
Rediscovery
"The debris field hit me the most, here in that ghostly expanse of sea floor 350 miles off Newfoundland, the people who died during the early hours of April 15th 1912, leaves me with this everlasting memory"
~ Dr. Robert Ballard ~