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The Titanic ' s Collapsible Boat D approaches RMS Carpathia at 7:15 am on 15 April 1912. The Titanic, showing eight lifeboats along the starboard-side boat deck (upper deck): four lifeboats near the bridge wheel house and four lifeboats near the 4th funnel. Lifeboats played a crucial role during the sinking of the Titanic on 14–15 April 1912.
A Titanic survivor's walking stick, with an electric light she used to signal for help from a lifeboat, is one of thousands of maritime items that will be up for auction in Rhode Island. Guernsey ...
In accordance with accepted practices of the time, as ships were seen as largely unsinkable and lifeboats were intended to transfer passengers to nearby rescue vessels, [162] [k] Titanic only had enough lifeboats to carry about half of those on board; if the ship had carried the full complement of about 3,339 passengers and crew, only about a ...
This pocket watch could rival the Heart of the Ocean. A gold Tiffany & Co. pocket watch given to a captain who saved passengers from the Titanic sold for almost $2 million at an auction over the ...
It's been more than 107 years since the British liner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Fifteen-hundred people died in the tragedy, while only about 700 survived.
CS Mackay-Bennett in Dry Dock at Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Cable Ship Mackay-Bennett was a transatlantic cable-laying and cable-repair ship registered at Lloyd's of London as a Glasgow vessel but owned by the American Commercial Cable Company.
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Titanic Lifeboat No. 1 was a lifeboat from the steamship Titanic. It was the fifth boat launched to sea, over an hour after the liner collided with an iceberg and began sinking on 14 April 1912 . With a capacity of 40 people, it was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night.