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Titanic Facts
The RMS Titanic was a British registered four funnelled ocean liner built for the transatlantic passenger and mail service between Southampton and New York.
Constructed at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland Titanic was, on her maiden voyage, the largest vessel afloat.
On April 10th 1912 the Titanic sailed from Southampton with 2,200 passengers and crew, four days later the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank. 1500 people died and 700 survived. This website attempts to tell their story and that of the great ship with which their fate would be inextricably linked.
It is since Titanic was lost.
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Titanic History
According to legend the Titanic was conceived at a meeting between Lord Pirrie of Harland & Wolff and Bruce Ismay, Chairman of the White Star Line.
The vessels would forsake speed for increased safety and comfort. While millionaire passengers would grab headlines, vastly increased steerage capacity and accommodation for the growing middle class would drive economic success.
After a construction period of nearly three years the Titanic, commanded by veteran Captain Edward John Smith, departed in Southampton on 10th April 1912 never to return.
In a growing archive of articles this site covers the story of the Titanic from her construction, maiden voyage, disaster and aftermath to the discovery of her wreck in 1985.
Design and Engineering
The Titanic designed and constructed at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
She was 882 feet 9 inches in length and 92 feet in breadth. Her gross tonnage was 46,328 tons. Three propellers were driven by two four-cylinder, triple-expansion, inverted reciprocating steam engines and one low-pressure Parsons turbine. Steam was provided by 25 double-ended and 4 single-ended Scotch-type boilers fired by 159 coal burning furnaces that gave her a theoretical top speed of 23 knots.
Titanic Culture
The Titanic forms part of our cultural landscape. In Hollywood movies, books, art and music her tragedy is replayed. Titanic has even entered the language: the phrase re-arranging deckchairs on the Titanic exemplifies a futile exercise.
In this site you can learn about how the Titanic has been reflected in contemporary culture; Titanic on film and record, in photographic image and in art. You can also learn about the true stories that inspired the movie makers including The Real Jack Dawson, and you can see the rarest of all film, the Titanic herself.
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Basic Statistics
The People
324 1st class passengers, 201 survived.
277 2nd class passengers, 118 survived.
708 3rd class passengers, 181 survived.
885 crew members, 212 survived.
13 postmen/musicians, none survived.
Grand total: 2,207 on board, 712 survived.
The Ship
Length: 882 feet 9 inches
Beam: 92 feet
Gross tonnage: 46,328 tons
Propulsion: Three propellers
Engines: Two triple-expansion reciprocating steam engines
One low-pressure Parsons turbine
25 double-ended and 4 single-ended Scotch-type boilers
159 coal burning furnaces
Top speed : 23 knots.
SAYS TITANIC WAS UNSAFE Steward, Suing for Injury in Wreck Says Precautions Were Disregarded [Associated Press Cablegram] London, Jan. 16—The plea that the Titanic was unseaworthy when she l
From the funeral home Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland CA I got the following details about Imanita Shelly Hall: Cremation date 5/26/54. Disposition: Chapel of peace. Birthplace Kentucky. Husband Jack S. Hall. The funeral home sent me a
Mrs. Hippach and Daughter, at Home, Tell of Rescue From Titanic How Colonel John Jacob Astor saved the lives of Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean Hippach, when the Titanic was sinking was told w
Deaths Elsewhere Jacob Gibbons, 89, who claimed to be the oldest survivng member of the crew of the Titanic; an engine room worker who was one of the last to leave it when it sank; in Studland, England.
Detroit, April 17 (AP)--In the hour after midnight on April 15, 1912, death overlooked Mrs. Bertha Cooper when the luxury liner Titanic sank after striking an iceberg. Saturday--49 years to the hour after the disaster t hat took the lives
Mrs. E. G. Crosy, wife of Captain E. G. Crosby of the Crosby Lake Steamshipp Company, and her daughter, Miss Hattie Crosby, of Milwaukee, who were in the ill-fated ship, arrived in Chicago yesterday afternoon. Captain Crosby was drowned.&nbs
The will of Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, leaving an estate estimated at $85,000 to a daughter, Mrs. Jean Unander-Scharin of Lake Forest, was filed for probate yesterday. Mrs. Hippach died a month ago at the age of 74 in her home at 2808 Evanston.&nb
Nineteen year old Howard Hippach is the last of the three sons of Louis A. Hippach, wealthy plate glass and window glass manufacturer, to meet a tragic death. Howrd Hippach was killed Thursday afternoon when a motor car which he was driving
New York, April 20---The Senate committee appointed to investigate the sinking of the liner Titanic closed a day of unearthing developments of supreme importance by having Quartermaster Hichens of the Titanic taken from the outgoing liner Lapland
The Hymn Nearer My God to Thee has often been suggested as the last tune played by the Musicians on the Titanic. There are different versions of the hymn, all are set to verses, written in 1841, by the English poet Sarah Full
At 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, 1912 Titanic departed her anchorage off Roches Point near Queenstown, Ireland, tur
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Saturday 30th January 2010 8:24 PM
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jerry Guenther says he was a typical kid who built a couple of airplane models here, a few model cars there, with no real desire to delve deeper. Look at him now. At 67, the Town of Merton retiree has turned his reading of a book about a salvage tug that sailed the North Atlantic into a nearly three-decade-long hobby of shipbuilding.
Submitted by Jason D. Tiller
Tuesday 19th January 2010 5:10 AM
Telegraph.co.uk
The 1:150 scale replica is true to the original 882ft vessel, which sank on April 14, 1912, in every detail. The 6ft design, on sale for £1,500, is made from over 300 handcrafted pieces and has a gentle cruising speed of 5mph on calm water.
Submitted by Jason D. Tiller
Tuesday 19th January 2010 5:02 AM
KXII-TV
It was called the "ship of dreams." Some even called it unsinkable, but the R.M.S. Titanic did sink in the northern Atlantic Ocean in April of 19-12; claiming the lives of more than 22-hundred people. Tonight, nearly 100 years later, in North Texas, furniture owned by a surviving titanic passenger was auctioned off. She wasn't well known when the ship went down, but today her name is a part of the history.
Submitted by Jason D. Tiller
Tuesday 19th January 2010 5:02 AM
NBC Connecticut
Nearly a century after the sinking of the Titanic, Foxwoods will pay tribute to the tragedy through a unique exhibit. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition opens at the Casino on Saturday, February 13th and has more than 100 artifacts from the Ship’s debris giving history buffs an inside look at the iconic ship and its passengers.
Submitted by Jason D. Tiller
Tuesday 19th January 2010 4:57 AM
Belfast Telegraph
Nearly 100 years after it sank, interest in the Titanic continues to prove lucrative for Belfast.
Submitted by Jason D. Tiller
Wednesday 6th January 2010 9:04 PM
Akron Beacon Journal
Imagine you are a passenger on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. That's the experience that awaits visitors to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition scheduled to open at the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus on March 27, and runs through September 2, 2010.
Submitted by Jason D. Tiller
Tuesday 22nd December 2009 2:59 PM
Charleston Gazette
When I was in the third or fourth grade, I purchased Robert Ballard's "Exploring the Titanic: How the Greatest Ship Ever Lost Was Found" at a school book fair, thus beginning my interest in the Titanic. In fact, for several years, I wanted to be a marine archaeologist and go on expeditions like Ballard.
Submitted by Jason D. Tiller
Friday 18th December 2009 9:40 PM
Southern Daily Echo
THE final plans for Southampton’s £15m Sea City Museum can today be exclusively unveiled. The museum, which will reshape the city’s Civic Centre forever, is expected to attract 150,000 visitors a year.
Submitted by Jason D. Tiller
Thursday 17th December 2009 9:04 PM
Belfast Telegraph
Ever wondered what it felt like to walk the decks of the Titanic? Almost 100 years after the liner sank beneath icy waters on an April night in 1912, the spirit of the great ship is coming back to Ireland through a new exhibition.
Submitted by Jason D. Tiller
Wednesday 16th December 2009 7:54 PM
The Press Association
More than 300 personal artefacts from the ill-fated Titanic are to go on public display as part of a major new exhibition.
Submitted by Jason D. Tiller
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