The document provides details about the Titanic, including its construction, size, amenities, and fateful collision with an iceberg. It describes how the Titanic took 3 years to build and was considered unsinkable. On its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in April 1912, it collided with an iceberg and sank within 3 hours, with over 1500 passengers and crew perishing. The wreck of the Titanic was later discovered on the ocean floor over 2 miles below the surface.
2. DOES ANYONE REALLY KNOW
WHY SHE SANK?
How many theories have there been?
Have any of them been proven?
Have any of them created reasonable doubt?
4. THE BEGINNING
Titanic was built at a shipyard
in Belfast, Ireland in 1909.
It took 3 years to complete.
It was built by Harland &
Wolff, shipbuilders For White
Star Line.
2000 steel plates held together
by 3 million rivets, formed the
hull.
5. SIZE
Weight: 46,000 tons
Length: 882 feet long (4 city blocks)
Height: 175 feet ( 11 stories)
9 decks with a capacity of 3500
passengers and crew
Was the largest moving object in the
world, at that time
6. POWER
20 Boilers & 162
Furnaces.
Burned 650 tons of coal
per day.
4 Smoke Stacks 22 feet
wide and 6 stories high.
Cranked out 16,000
horsepower.
Top Speed was 24 knots.
7. SCHEDULE
Titanic’s first and only voyage departed from South Hampton, England on
April 10,1912. With a projected arrival in New York City on April 17, 1912,
She departed with 2200 passengers and crew, with only lifeboats for 1178.
On April 18,1912, The Carpathia arrives in New York with the survivors of Titanic
8. 75,000 lbs of Fresh Meat
40 tons of Potatoes
35,000 lbs of Tomatoes
7000 heads of Lettuce
15,000 gals of Fresh Milk
40,000 Fresh Eggs
35,000 lbs of Onions
DINING
800 bundles of Asparagus
10,000 lbs of Carrots
36,000 Oranges
36,000 Apples
800lbs of Tea
15,000 bottles of Beer
1500 bottles of Champagne
There was a lot to eat
9. THERE WAS LOTS TO DO
Dark Room
Swimming Pool
Turkish Bath
Cigar Room
Gym
10. 2nd Class Ticket
1st Class ticket = $4,300
In present day
3rd Class ticket =
$36.00 present day
11. What you paid made more difference then one would have thought.
Passenger survival rates
1st Class 60%
Crew less than 25%
2nd Class 42 %
3rd Class 25%
12. FATEFUL NIGHT
On April 14,1912 cruising at 22 knots, Titanic
Hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm.
13. The iceberg cut a hole in
the hull 245 feet long.
Water rushed in at a
estimated 7 tons per
second.
14. REST IN PEACE
Titanic’s final resting place is 350 miles SE
of Newfoundland, Canada. At 2.3 miles below
the surface.
15. The world’s first unsinkable ship took 3 years to build and 3 hours to sink.
