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

RediscoveryIt was rediscovered in 1985 by Robert

Ballard2 1/2 miles underwaterSank in two pieces

RediscoveryLocation where the Titanic wreck was

discovered

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 ~

Last Living Titanic SurvivorMillvina Dean, age 97Died in 2009Only 2 months old at time of sinkingRescued with mother and older brother, BertramLowered into lifeboat in mailbagFather did not surviveHas no memory of the tragedy