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RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean.The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time) [a] on 14 April.
Titanic was 882 feet 9 inches (269.06 m) long with a maximum breadth of 92 feet 6 inches (28.19 m). The ship's total height, measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge, was 104 feet (32 m). [16] Titanic measured 46,329 GRT and 21,831 NRT [17] and with a draught of 34 feet 7 inches (10.54 m) and displaced 52,310 tonnes. [5]
A Night to Remember is a 1955 non-fiction book by Walter Lord that depicts the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912. The book was hugely successful, and is still considered a definitive resource about the Titanic.
Saturday marks the 105th anniversary of one of the most iconic tragedies in history: the sinking of the Titanic.
The story of the ship and its sinking blends “romance, tragedy and human resilience,” Williams said. ... For people today, there are multiple “entry points” into the story of Titanic ...
On the 111th anniversary of that fateful night in the Atlantic, we're looking back at stories of the survivors of the Titanic, published in Town & Country.
Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember (1955), relating the Titanic 's wreck, begins with a summary of Robertson's novel. The American anthology series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction used the story in the episode eleven segment entitled "Titan". The novel can be found sitting on Carlson's armchair in the 1996 video game Titanic: Adventure Out ...
The sinking was caused by a collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic some 700 nautical miles east of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Over 1500 passengers and crew died, with some 710 survivors in Titanic ' s lifeboats rescued by RMS Carpathia a few hours later. There was initially some confusion in both the United States and the UK over the extent ...