The R.M.S. Titanic
No picture can tell you just how
enormous the R.M.S. Titanic was.
On the 10th of April 1912 the Royal Maiden
Steamer, the Titanic set sail with about
2435 passengers and a crew of 900. It was
52,310 tonnes heavey and was 269 metres
in length. Built in Belfast, this magnificent
vessel was to sail from Southampton to
New York
Sadly, after only 5 days of sailing, the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic ocean.
In the cold Atlantic lies a ship, once
called unsinkable, but now a decrepit
wreck over 100 years old. When it was first
built there were 840 rooms: 416 1st class,
162 2nd class rooms and 262 3rd class rooms,
now all sunk and destroyed at the bottom
of the ocean.
Because nobody thought the Titanic
would sink, there were about half the
amount of lifeboats there should have been.
Because they were on the top deck and were
a bigger priority to the crew, 35% of first class
passengers survived but third class weren't so
lucky as only 24% of those survived.