The Titanic Disaster By Asa

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The Titanic Disaster By Asa
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Contents
Construction
Facilities Onboard
Maiden Voyage
Iceberg Collision
The Sinking
Survivors
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Construction

• The keel of Titanic was put on 31st of March
  1909.
• The keel was the most important part on which
  everything else depends.
• It was made in Belfast .
• It took three years to construct and fit out.
• It used three million rivets.

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Facilities Onboard

• A piano in the Third Class common room or saloon
• A 50 phone switchboard complete with operator for
  intra-ship calls.
• A heated swimming pool and Electric light and
  lots of heat in state rooms

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Maiden Voyage

• The vessel began her maiden voyage from
  Southampton to New York on the 10th of April
  1911.
• The Captain was called Edward J. Smith
• As the Titanic left her birth her wake caused the
  liner SS New York witch was docked nearby to
  break away from her moorings.

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Iceberg Collision

• On Sunday the 14th of April 1912 the temperature
  had dropped to near freezing and the Ocean was
  calm. The moon was not visible two days before
  new moon and the sky was clear.
• Captain Smith was told of iceberg warnings via
  wireless over the proceeding few days.
• At 20 to midnight the Captain spotted a large
  iceberg directly ahead of the ship they tried to
  swerve but the iceberg scraped all the side of
  the Titanic.

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The Sinking

• The first lifeboat was number 7 on the starboard
  side with 28 people on bored out of a capacity of
  65.
• It was lowered at 040am lifeboats 6 and 5 were
  lowered 10 minutes after lifeboat 1 was the fifth
  boat to be launched.
• Titanic carried 20 lifeboats with a total of
  1,178 people.

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Survivors

• There was 19 dogs on the Titanic and 3 survived.
• Anna Sophia Turja was 1 of the 21 children born
  of 2 mothers and one farther in Oulainen in
  Northern Finland
• John Lundi the husband of the half-sister Maria
  invited her to come to work for him as the store
  in Ashtabula, Ohio and he got her a ticket for
  the Titanic.
• There was 2223 people that survived.