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The sinking of the passenger ship Titanic in 1912 is one of history's most tragic and well-documented events. From the building of the ship and the compelling personal accounts of its survivors, to examining its place in popular culture, we explore the history of the Titanic. 03 Oct 2017.
The Titanic carried post. The reason the titanic is often referred to as ‘RMS Titanic’ is because the RMS stands for Royal Mail Ship. There were only enough lifeboats for a third of the people on board. There were 20 life boats on board, which would have held a capacity of 1178 people. Meanwhile the capacity of Titanic was 3320 people.
Amazing objects in the National Maritime Museum's collection reveal its infamous story. At 23.40 14 April 1912 RMS Titanic struck an iceberg. By 02.20 the ship had foundered, with a resulting loss of 1,523 people; 815 passengers and 688 crew. Around 700 survived the disaster (the available lifeboats had a capacity for 1,178), and remarkably a ...
No passenger ship has ever captured the public imagination like the Titanic and with the golden age of travel by ship long over, it is unlikely that any future ship ever will. 105 years ago at 23.40 14 April RMS Titanic struck an iceberg. By 02.20 the ship had foundered with a resulting loss of 1523 people; 815 passengers and 688 crew.
Both the ship itself, and its sinking have been popular themes for artists and live within a long history of maritime tragedies being immortalised in paint. The National Maritime Museum has a number of outstanding paintings of the Titanic, including a pencil drawing of the ship sinking, drawn by a steward aboard the ship. This is the only ...
02.20, 15 April 1912: Titanic foundered. 04.10, 15 April 1912: First lifeboat picked up by Carpathia. 21.25, 18 April 1912: Carpathia docked in New York. 1 September 1985: Titanic wreck site located, approx 2.5 miles below the Atlantic, by a joint French/USA expedition.
You may be forgiven for thinking you know the ship being described above. However, it is not the Titanic. This is, in fact a description of the fictional steamship Titan from the 1898 novella, Futility. Beyond the prophetic naming of the Titan, author Morgan Robertson also accurately predicted the largest vessel afloat, carrying the minimum ...
The sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania, two of the great maritime disasters of the twentieth century, have attracted more than their share of these theories. Was the sinking of the Titanic a plot by J. P. Morgan to remove opponents to his plan to create a US Federal Reserve Bank? Was the construction of the ship substandard?
Starboard view of RMS 'Titanic' steaming. Oil on canvas depicting a starboard view of RMS 'Titanic' steaming on a blue sea with a small launch in the foreground. The ship bears a dark blue jack at the bow, a US flag at the foremast, a swallow-tail blue flag with a yellow patch in the centre on the rear mast and a saltire white cross on a red ...
Titanic: the highly important longitudinal sectioned plan of the ship used at the English enquiry June 1912 and a collection of rare Titanic ephemera. At the Park Lane Hotel Ballroom, Piccadilly, London W1. For sale by auction. Wednesday, 15 April 1987, at 18.00 (London: Onslow Auctions Ltd, 1987) 656.61.085.3Titanic.