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2. Contents Construction Facilities Onboard Maiden Voyage Ice - Burg Collision The Sinking Survivors

3. Construction • The story of the Titanic and her sisters began when one evening in 1907. A couple called Mrs and Mr. J Bruce Ismay went out for dinner at the home of Lord & Lady Pirrie in London. • The sketches draw the night of the dinner were taken back to Harland & Wolff by Lord Pirrie. • The layout of the keel is the first stage of the construction of a ship. The keel is a key structure, like the backbone of a human body. • In the end it cost $7.5million altogether. • On which everything else depends on. It is m bade in sections, laid on blocks on a sloping slipway. • After the keel has been laid, construction begins on the frame. The frame is similar to the ribs on a human body and it form the basic shape of the hull Curved frames are connected to the hull while steel beams help it to hold the frames together also it adds strength to the structure

4. Facilities Onboard • 2 parlour suites each with a 50 foot private promenade and 7 other first class staterooms and suites. • It had a gymnasium with a rowing machine and a stationary bicycle and a electric Horse ! And quite a lot more ! • Titanic has a heated swimming pool and it’s the first built into a vessel. • Also a great squash court on deck F,2 barber shops with automated shampooing and conditioning open to all the classes. • First and second class smoking areas for men only and reading and writing areas for women only. • First and second class libraries. • 10,488 square foot first class dining saloons and a maximum of passengers in the room which is 554.

5. Maiden Voyage • Titanic started her Maiden voyage in Southampton and was travelling to New York on the10th of April 1912 and captain Edward J Smith was in command. • As Titanic left her berth, her wake caused the liner “SS New York” which was docked quite near by, to break her moorings, whereupon she was drawn dangerously close (about four feet) to Titanic before a tugboat towed New York away. • It delayed the Titanic’s departure for over half an hour. • After stopping at Cherbourg, France, Queenstown, Ireland the Titanic set off to New York with 2,240 passengers aboard.

6. Iceberg Collision • The Titanic was sailing on the calm ocean and had got told some Ice-berg warnings preceding few days, had drawn up a new course which took the ship slightly further southward. That Sunday at 13:45 a message from the steamer America warned that large icebergs were in the ahead of the Titanic’s path. • Jack Phillips and Harold Bride, the Marconi wireless radio workers. Later that evening another report of Ice-berg but this time it was from Mesba and that’s also failed to reach the Bridge. The told some of the warnings to shut up and ignored everyone's warnings. • Later that evening at 12:30, while sailing at 400 miles ( 640km) south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland looks out and spotted a large Ice-berg directly ahead of the ship and Fleet sounded the bell 3 times and telephoned the bridge exclaiming that a large Ice-berg is straight ahead and they tried to turn the boat around but unluckily it still scraped the side of the ship. • This buckled the hull in a few places popping the rivets water line over a length of 299 ft.

7. The Sinking • As sea water filled the forward compartments, the water tight doors shut trapping nearly all of the workers in. • However, while the ship could barely stay afloat with the foremost four compartments flooded, the foremost six were filling with water. The water filled compartments weighed down the ships bow and that allowed much more water to flood the vessel, accelerated by secondary flooding as regular openings in the ship's hull became submerged • About 130 minutes after the collision, water started pouring from the six into the seventh compartment over the top of the bulkhead in between. • Captain Smith, alerted by the jolt of the impact, arrived on the bridge and ordered full stop. Shortly after midnight following an inspection by the ship's officers and Thomas Andrews, Lifeboats were order to be readied and a distress call was sent out. • Ships responded but was to far away to get to the Titanic. The only ship which was the closest ship was Cunard Line’s Carphie 58 miles away ) which could arrive in an estimated four hours—too late to rescue all of Titanic's Passengers .

8. Survivors • Of a total of 2,223 people aboard the Titanic only 706 survived, less than a third survived and 1,517 perished. • The majority of deaths were caused by hypothermia in the 28° F (−2 °C) water were death could be expected in less than 15 minutes. • Men and members of the 2nd and 3rd class were less likely to survive. Of the male passengers in second class, 92 percent perished. Less than a quarter of third-class passengers survived Six of the seven children in first class survived, all of the children in second class survived, whereas less than half were saved in third class. 96 percent of the women in first class survived, 86 percent of the women survived in second class and less than half survived in third class. • Overall, only 20 percent of the men survived, compared to nearly 75 percent of the women. Men in first class were four times as likely to survive as men in second class, and twice as likely to survive as those in third. • Four of the eight officers survived. About 21 of the 29 able seamen survived and all seven quartermasters and eight lookouts survived. Three of the 13 leading firemen survived, around 45 other firemen survived and around 20 of the 73 coal trimmers survived. • Four of the 33 greasers survived and one of the six mess hall stewards survived. Around 60 of the 322 stewards and 18 of the 23 stewardesses survived. Three of the 68 restaurant staffs survived. All five postal clerks, guarantee group, and eight-member orchestra perished. • Some people who was sailing away from the Titanic saw the boat split in two and sink away under the icy seas of the Atlantic Ocean