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Carpathia of 1903 (13,555 GRT) became famous for rescuing the survivors of the sinking of Titanic Not to be outdone, both White Star and Hamburg–America each ordered a trio of superliners. The White Star Olympic -class liners at 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h) and the Hapag Imperator -class liners at 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h) were larger and more ...
1 By location. 2 By date. Toggle By date subsection. 2.1 Before 1914. 2.2 1914 to 1938. 2.3 1939 to 1945. 2.4 After 1945. ... List of ships sunk by the Imperial ...
This is a list of ships that were lost on their maiden voyage. Naval ships. Vasa (1628) ... Titanic (1912) City of Honolulu (1922) Georges Philippar (1932)
The list includes ships that sank, foundered, grounded, or were otherwise lost. The Atlantic Ocean is here defined in its widest sense, to include its marginal seas : the Baltic Sea , the Black Sea , the Caribbean Sea , the Gulf of Mexico , the English Channel , the Labrador Sea , the Mediterranean Sea , the mid-Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea ...
This is a list of ocean liners past and present, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in transoceanic voyages. Ships primarily designed for pleasure cruises are listed at List of cruise ships. Some ships which have been explicitly designed for both line voyages and cruises, or which have been converted ...
The submersible’s Titanic expedition is a reminder that more than a century after the “unsinkable” Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 of the 2,200 people on board ...
The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 14, 1912, after months of being declared the "unsinkable ship." The maritime disaster took the lives of approximately 1,500 people who either sank with ...
The British Board of Trade's regulations required fourteen lifeboats for a ship of 10,000 tonnes. Titanic carried six more than required, allowing 338 extra people room in lifeboats. When the ship sank, the lifeboats that had been lowered were only filled up to an average of 60%.