El Titanic

The RMS Titanic was an British liner , the largest ship in the world at the time of her launch , which sank in the early morning 14 to April 15, 1912 during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown Ireland . Titanic 1514 killed 2223 people aboard , which makes it one of the largest shipwrecks in history occurred in peacetime. The Titanic was the second of three transatlantic Olympic class were owned by the White Star Line and was built between 1909 and 1912 at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

Among the passengers were some of the richest people in the world and hundreds of Irish immigrants , British and Scandinavians who went in search of a better life in America . The ship was designed to be the ultimate in luxury and comfort , and had a gym, swimming pool, library , upscale restaurants and opulent cabins for first class travelers . It was also equipped with a powerful telegraph station for use by passengers and crew , and advanced security measures , as its hull bulkheads and airlocks remotely activated . However, due to outdated safety standards of the time, only carried lifeboats for 1178 passengers, five little more than half the people on board on its maiden voyage and a third of its total capacity.

After setting sail from Southampton on April 10, 1912 , the Titanic docked in

Cherbourg, France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland , before setting sail the

Atlantic Ocean. At 23:40 on April 14 , four days after starting and about 600 km

south of Newfoundland, the Titanic struck an iceberg . The collision opened

several hull plates on her starboard side below the waterline along five of his

sixteen bulkheads , it began to flood. For two hours the boat was gradually sinking

the front and the stern rose , and at this time several hundred passengers and

crew were evacuated on lifeboats, some of which were not filled to capacity . A

very large number of men died due to rescue strict protocol followed in the

process of evacuating the ship, known as "women and children first " 6 7 Just

before 2:20 pm April 15 , the Titanic split in half and sank bow with hundreds of

people still on board . Most of those who remained floating on the surface of the

sea died of hypothermia , though some were rescued by the lifeboats. The 710

survivors were picked up from the boats by the RMS Carpathia few hours later.

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