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The Famous Titanic :The Famous Titanic By Isaac
Building the Titanic :Building the Titanic Built by the White Star Line
883 ft long
92 ft wide
46,328 tons
104 ft high
29 boilers
3 propellers
3 million rivets
16 water-tight compartments
Building the Titanic :Building the Titanic
Setting Sail :Setting Sail Set sail on Thursday April 11, 1912
2223 people on board
Left Queenstown, Ireland for New York
The captain’s name was Edward J. Smith
Setting Sail :Setting Sail
Disaster! :Disaster! 11:40 pm Sunday, April 14, 1912 the Titanic hit an iceberg
The hole was over 300ft long
First lifeboat was launched at 12:40 am with only 19 people on board
It took 160 minutes for the Titanic to sink
Disaster! :Disaster!
Rescue! :Rescue! Carpathia comes to the rescue
When it received the SOS it was 60 miles away
Some of the people were in lifeboats for 4 hours
1517 souls perished
Only 706 people survived
Rescue! :Rescue!
Rediscovery :Rediscovery It was rediscovered in 1985 by Robert Ballard
2 1/2 miles underwater
Sank in two pieces
Rediscovery :Rediscovery Location where the Titanic wreck was discovered
Rediscovery :Rediscovery
Rediscovery :Rediscovery "The debris field hit me the most, here in that ghostly expanse of sea floor 350 miles off Newfoundland, the people who died during the early hours of April 15th 1912, leaves me with this everlasting memory"
~ Dr. Robert Ballard ~
Last Living Titanic Survivor :Last Living Titanic Survivor Millvinia Dean, age 96
Only 2 months old at time
of sinking
Rescued with mother and
older brother, Bertram
Father did not survive
Lives in England today
Has no memory of the
tragedy
THE END! :THE END! “Titanic”, original artwork by Isaac