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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, 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.
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Titanic Passengers and Crew
The Titanic carried 2207 people. People all ages, people of great wealth and of bitter poverty. Unsuspecting witnesses to an event they could never have envisaged
If you could walk the decks of the Titanic you would hear a dozen or more languages being spoken with every imaginable dialect. Not surprisingly the Titanic is often described as a microcosm of society.
The route to understanding the Titanic story is to learn about and understand the people that built her, the people that sailed on her, those that died and those that survived when she met her end.
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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Have you every wanted to know more about the Titanic, a passenger or crew member. So have we! Research can be as simple as picking up a book or going to your library and searching through the local newspapers from 1912. So why not give it a try and post your findings on Encyclopedia Titanica.
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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.
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A noticeable figure among the survivors of the Titanic has been removed by the death at the Sailors’ Home Southampton on Tuesday of Reginald Robinson Lee, on whom an inquest was held by the Borough Coroner (Mr. H. K. Pope) on Friday afternoo
Almost 25 years to the day after the R.M.S. Titanic was discovered two and a half miles below the surface of the Atlantic an expedition to the ocean floor has transmitted brand new images of history's most famous shipwreck.
New pictures have emerged of the shipwreck of the Titanic almost 25 years since it was first discovered.
A newly-restored memorial marking the bravery of the engineers who died when the ill-fated RMS Titanic sank 98 years ago will be unveiled in Southampton.
A research team exploring and documenting the wreck of the Titanic 4 km below the surface of the North Atlantic has released new images of the aging wreck 25 years after it was discovered.
Just before midnight on 14 April 1912 the 'unsinkable' Titanic hit an iceberg and in the early hours of 15 April it sank with the loss of 1517 lives.
More than 100 Irish have signed up to the cruise which will commemorate the Titanic. The cruise will follow the exact fateful route that the Belfast-built Titanic took 100 years ago.
Nearly 100 years after an iceberg sent it to the bottom of the North Atlantic the Titanic remains a topic of fascination around the world.
A young couple working on a research ship mapping the wreck of the Titanic celebrated their wedding aboard the vessel on Sunday.
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