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The Titanic was a huge ship, made in 1908, one of the biggest ships ever made at the time. Tragically, it colided with an ice berg and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean near Canada on it's first voyage.The Titanic was heading to New York from Southampton.

The Titanic had 9 decks and it weighed 67,063 tonnes. The 3 anchors weighed 15.5 tonnes each, and it had 29 boilers over 15 feet, weighing 100 tonnes. It was 882.9 feet long and 92 feet broad. For the journey it carried enough food to feed a small village for months. Special facilities included swimming pools, squash courts, a dark room for photographers and gyms.

But despite it's massive size, it carried 20 life boats, they carried 65 passengers each. There barely enough for the passenger let alone half.all of the lifeboats were launched with less than 65.


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First class cabins were 870 pounds, second class were 12 pounds and third class was 3 to 8 pounds. Only rich people could afford to stay in first class cabins. picture The Titanic could carry up to 3,457 passengers but only 2,439 were on board the night that it sunk. There were 740 people in first class, 674 in second class and 1,026 in third class, including all the staff members on board.There were 890 crew/staff on board the Titanic, 18 of which were stewardesses. The captain's name was Edward Smith,and the Chief Officer was Henry Wilde.

The 200m wide iceberg that the Titanic crashed into did all the damage that the ship needed, to sink. After the collision, the captain closed all the water tight doors, but it was too late and the damage had been done. Six compartments had been damaged and water was rising rapidly. Most passengers had no idea anything was wrong but crew soon found out, and ordered passengers to the top of the boat with life jackets.

Then it turned into complete chaos. After the crash, the boat took 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink. There was panic every where. As the Titanic was sinking the members of the orchestra kept on playing as if nothing was happening. No members of the of the orchestra survived. One of the lifeboats returned to the titanic after it started sinking. It managed to rescue 4 people. Sadly later that night one of them died.

705 people out of 2439 survived. Most of those would have drowned or died from hypothermia, if not for another ship, the Capathia, which came when it heard the Titanics' distress calls. It picked up all the remaining people in the boats and those in the sea who hadn't perished. Only one crew member survived, and 35 out of 167 firemen lived.

__ Facts about the Titanic __

A few years before the Titanic was built, someone wrote a book called the Titan, about a boat which crashed and only had life boats for half the amount of people.

The Titanic was also called the Unsinkable, The Millionaires Special, The Ship of Dreams and The Last World in Luxury.

It burned 690 tonnes of coal every day.

At least 15,000 people helped build the Titanic.

It was built to carry 3,547 people, but only 2,439 were on board.

The Titanic received 6 iceberg warnings the day it crashed, but chose to ignore them.

It had 4 lifts, 3 in first class, 1 on second class.

The Titanic was as high as an 11 storey building.

Fredrick Feet, (the lookout person) spotted the iceberg round 11:40pm but by then it was too late to avoid colliding with it.

One man had disguised himself as a woman by putting a shawl over his head so he could get on a lifeboat. His name was Daniel Buckley.