RMS Titanic

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RMS Titanic

• The Supposedly Unsinkable Ship

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RMS Titanic History

• What does RMS stand for? Royal Mail Ship.
• The Titanic was a British registered four
  funneled ocean liner built for the transatlantic
  passenger and mail service between Southampton
  (England) and New York (USA).

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Belfast, Ireland

• Constructed at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in
  Belfast, Northern Ireland she was, at the time of
  her maiden voyage, the largest vessel afloat.

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Southampton, England

• On April 10th 1912 the Titanic set sail from
  Southampton with 2,200 passengers and crew, four
  days later the Titanic collided with an iceberg
  and sank.
• 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.

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Titanics Route

• 1500 people died and 700 survived.
• Most of the bodies were taken to nearby Halifax,
  NS.
• This April 10th will
  mark the 97th
  anniversary of the Titanic
  disaster.

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People on Board

• The Titanic carried 2207 people. People all ages,
  people of great wealth and of bitter poverty.
• First Class Citizens included successful
  professionals, business owners, millionaires,
  etc.
• Second Class Citizens included business and
  professional people.
• Third Class Citizens included workers and
  immigrants.

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Design and Engineering

• She was 882 feet 9 inches in length and 92 feet
  in width.
• Her gross tonnage was 46,328 tons.
• Three propellers were used to power the Titanic
  forward.
• Steam was provided by Scotch-type boilers fired
  by 159 coal burning furnaces that gave her a
  theoretical top speed of 23 knots.
• 1 knot equals roughly 1.8 Km/h, thus giving the
  Titanic a speed of roughly 42 Km/h.

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The Iceberg
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Jack Dawson

• Jack Dawson was supposed to be a fictional
  character played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
• Kate Winslet played the part of Rose DeWitt
  Bukater.
• What director James Cameron failed to realize
  that there was an actual Jack Dawson on the
  Titanic.

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Jack Dawson

• The infamous J. Dawson grave that people adopted
  as Jack from James Cameron's Titanic movie. Many
  flowers, stuffed toys, hearts and movie tickets
  were placed on his grave every day during the
  release of the movie and for many years after.
• Some speculation to whether he was Jack or
  Joseph

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Titanics Finals Resting Place

• 1600 kilometers east of Boston, Massachusetts,
  and 600 kilometers southeast of St. John's,
  Newfoundland.
• Depth 12,500 feet.
• Stern, Bow, and boilers were all found within
  roughly a kilometer of each other
• Titanic was not found until 1986

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Why it Sank?

• The iceberg
• Travelling full speed upon the time of impact
• Captain threw the engines in reverse which swung
  the Titanic sideways, thus allowing the iceberg
  to rub the sides of the ship
• Rivets which held the ship together became
  brittle in cold water (contained sulphur)
• Not enough lifeboats
• No help after firing flares

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Titanic Sinking
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Under the Atlantic Ocean