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Encyclopedia Titanica is an online reference work containing extensive and constantly updated information on the RMS Titanic. [1] The website, a nonprofit endeavor, is a database of passenger and crew biographies, deck plans, and articles submitted by historians or Titanic enthusiasts.
From top to bottom, the decks were: The boat deck, on which the lifeboats were housed. It was from here during the early hours of 15 April 1912 that Titanic ' s lifeboats were lowered into the North Atlantic. The bridge and wheelhouse were at the forward end, in front of the captain's and officers' quarters.
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The public's fascination with the Titanic spans generations — and there's no question as to why. The $7.5 million (over $200 million today) luxury ocean liner was a representation of grandeur ...
The deck house that once formed the Boat Deck level of the stairway is collapsed and the huge void left by where the dome had once been sited offers a convenient entry for remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs). A pile of wreckage and twisted metal framework lies at the bottom of D-Deck, obscuring access to the lower decks.
There were two staircases for Second Class passengers—the main forward one communicated between the boat deck all the way down to F Deck and featured an elevator, the first to be featured in Second Class aboard an ocean liner. The second ran between F and B Decks and directly accessed the Library and Smoking Room.
The Titanic wreckage has lost part of one of its most famous features, a new expedition has found. A section of the railings on the ship’s iconic bow deck was discovered to have broken off in a ...
Then the Titanic ' s Number 1 (forward) funnel broke free and hit the water, washing the collapsible further away from the sinking ship; it killed several people and closely missed Lightoller. [43] Lightoller climbed onto the boat and took charge, calming and organising the survivors (numbering around 30) on the overturned lifeboat. [44]