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The Titanic
By Anna
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Contents
•Construction
•Facilities onboard
•Maiden Voyage
•The sinking
•Aftermath
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Construction• The Titanic was made in
Belfast by the company Harland and Wolff in 1909-12.
• It was intended to be the largest and most luxurious ship ever made.
• It took over 3000 men to build with only Saturday and Sunday afternoons of.
• The Titanic had three steamed power propellers to make her move through water.
• It could carry a total of 3,547 passengers including crew.
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Facilities onboard
• It contained many great facilities on board such as :
• A swimming pool• Gymnasium • Heated swimming pool• Library• It could only carry 64
lifeboats but white star line only agreed to put 20 onboard.
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Maiden Voyage• She began her Maiden
Voyage from Southampton to New York City, on Wednesday 10th April 1912.
• Captain Edward J. Smith was in charge and it was his last job before he retired.
• The titanic carried some of the wealthiest people ( Millionaires John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenhelm and Isdor Strauss.
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The Sinking• On April 14th 1912 the weather
was unusual for Atlantic because there was a calm sea with no wind.
• At 11:39pm the two outlooks spotted an iceberg and shouted Iceberg Ahead.
• But after 37 seconds the iceberg since being slighted it still managed to strike its starboard bow.
• At midnight the captain was told that the ship was sinking so at 12:25 they started loading lifeboats with women and children.
• The last lifeboat left at 2:05 am with over 1000 people still on board.
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Aftermath• After receiving the distress
signals, the RMS Capathia arrived at 4:10 to rescue any passengers that were still on board this was 2 hours after it had sunk.
• At 8:50 they left the area they had picked up 706 passengers.
• They were all cold, damp and very upset at what had happened.
• Over 1500 people died