R'M'S' Titanic

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R.M.S. Titanic
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• The royal mail ship, Titanic, was the largest
  ship built at the time
• This floating palace cost 7.5 million to
  construct

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• Built in Belfast, Ireland, Titanic was 882 ft
  long 92 ft wide
• It has 16 watertight (presumably) compartments
  that divided its double-bottomed hull and earned
  it the title unsinkable

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• The maiden voyage began on April 10, 1912 from
  Southampton, England to New York
• The ships captain, E.J. Smith, was to retire,
  after a 34 year career, at the end of the voyage

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• There were 2,227 passengers and crew aboard
• At 1140 the night of April 14, the ship struck
  an iceberg

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• A North Atlantic iceberg cut a 300 foot gash
  through 1/3 of its compartments
• While the slice was only ½ inch wide, it was
  enough to sink the ship in less than 3 hours

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• By 220 am on the morning of April 15, the
  Titanic sank with 1,522 passengers and crew
  members
• The 705 survivors were rescued within 1½ hours by
  the Carpathia

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• Famous people who lost their lives
• William Thomas Stead
• Isidor Ida Strauss
• John Jacob Astor
• Major Archibald Butts

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• The R.M.S. Titanic was found in 1985 by Dr.
  Robert Ballard of Woods Hole Oceanographic
  Institute
• He used a camera sled and Jason (a robotic camera
  commanded from the DSV, Alvin)

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• TheTitanic rests in the Labrador Sea at a depth
  of 2 miles
• It was found upright, broken into two pieces,
  facing opposite directions

• 41 46' N, 15 14' W

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• The disaster resulted in safety procedures still
  used by ships today
• The International Convention of Safety of Life at
  Sea 1913 requires
• Life boat drills, often at 220 Sunday, to
  commemorate the Titanic
• Life boats for all on board
• 24 hour communication
• International Ice Patrol warns of icebergs twice
  daily in the North Atlantic

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• When the Queen Mary 2 went into service in 2004,
  it was the largest passenger ship ever built. It
  is 345 meters long and 21 stories high. At a
  total estimated cost of US 780 million, Queen
  Mary 2 was also the most expensive ship ever
  built.