Built by the White Star Line

883 ft long

92 ft wide

46,328 tons

104 ft high

29 boilers

3 propellers

3 million rivets

16 water-tight compartments

Building the Titanic

Building the Titanic

Set sail on Thursday April 11, 1912

2223 people on board

Left Queenstown, Ireland for New York

The captain’s name was Edward J. Smith

Setting Sail

Setting Sail

11:40 pm Sunday, April 14, 1912 the Titanic hit an iceberg

The hole was over 300ft long

First lifeboat was launched at 12:40 am with only 19 people on board

It took 160 minutes for the Titanic to sink

Disaster!

Disaster!

Carpathia comes to the rescue

• When it received the SOS it was 60 miles away

Some of the people were in lifeboats for 4 hours

1517 souls perished

Only 706 people survived

Rescue!

Rescue!

It was rediscovered in 1985 by Robert Ballard

2 1/2 miles underwater

Sank in two pieces

Rediscovery

Location where the Titanic wreck was discovered

Rediscovery

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 ~

Rediscovery

Millvinia Dean, age 96

Only 2 months old at time

of sinking

Rescued with mother and

older brother, Bertram

Father did not survive

Lives in England today

Has no memory of the

tragedy

Last Living Titanic Survivor

THE END!