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However, the White Star Line decided that only 16 wooden lifeboats and four collapsibles would be carried, which could accommodate 1,178 people, only one-third of Titanic 's total capacity. At the time, the Board of Trade 's regulations required British vessels over 10,000 tonnes to carry only 16 lifeboats with a capacity of 990 occupants.
In the years since the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912, we have become familiar with haunting images of the doomed passenger liner’s bow, lying at the bottom of the North Atlantic ...
At a constant acceleration of 1 g, a rocket could travel the diameter of our galaxy in about 12 years ship time, and about 113,000 years planetary time. If the last half of the trip involves deceleration at 1 g, the trip would take about 24 years. If the trip is merely to the nearest star, with deceleration the last half of the way, it would ...
The statue was spotted in photos taken during a 1986 expedition, "but a tradition of secrecy around the Titanic wreck ensured her location would remain unknown," RMS Titanic Inc. said.
The shortage of lifeboats was not due to a lack of space; Titanic had actually been designed to accommodate up to 64 lifeboats [5] – nor was it because of cost, as the price of an extra 32 lifeboats (when it could have even held an extra 48) would only have been some $16,000, a tiny fraction of the $7.5 million that the company had spent on ...
The Titanic shipwreck is one of the most infamous tragedies of the twentieth century, and people are still fascinated by what happened. More than 1,500 lives were lost -- but some argue that could ...
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Five men came together to see the remnants of one of history’s great disasters, the Titanic. They are now at the center of a frantic search-and-rescue operation. The Titanic brought them ...