Posted on December 4, 2007 by mikarcoolcpcheats
Titanic Disaster, one of the worst maritime disasters in history. The luxury liner Titanic (46,000 gross tons) on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City struck an iceberg about 153 km (about 95 mi) south of the Grand Banks off NewFoundLAndjust before midnight on April 14, 1912. Of the more than 2,220 persons [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2007 by mikarcoolcpcheats
Tickets.
Titanic room.
One of titanic’s engines
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Posted on December 4, 2007 by mikarcoolcpcheats
The Titanic rested undisturbed at the bottom of the sea in ruins. In March of 1914, a Denver inventor located the site of the Titanic with plans to raise it, but was unable to complete the task. A man named Jack Grimm searched for the Titanic three times, but never found it. Finally, on September [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2007 by mikarcoolcpcheats
7:30am, Wednesday, April 10, 1912 – Captain Edward J. Smith boards the Titanic for its maiden voyage. He also announces his retirement and that this would be his final voyage.
Noon – Titanic departs from Southampton, England, but not before narrowly avoiding a collision with the New York, whose mooring lines snap in Titanic’s wake. Tugboats [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2007 by mikarcoolcpcheats
Some of the “safety measures in use today” are due to the fact that the Titanic sunk. More life boats, ice patrol exploding icebergs before they are a problem and even “lifebelts” in the north atlantic, as I understand it, are somewhat like an insulated diving suit of sorts and drills are mandatory.
But given that [...]
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