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The RMS Titanic. By Charlie M. Contents. Construction Facilities Onboard Maiden Voyage The Sinking Aftermath. Construction. On the 31 st March 1909 construction starts to build the Titanic. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The RMS Titanic
By Charlie M
Contents
Construction
Facilities Onboard
Maiden Voyage
The Sinking
Aftermath
Construction• On the 31st March
1909 construction starts to build the Titanic.
• The Titanic was built in Belfast by a company called Harland and Wolff between 1909 to 1911 for the White star line shipping company.
Facilities onboard• On the Titanic
there was a gymnasium, a swimming pool, a squash court and many more.
• Both first and second class could use a smoking room, a reading room and more.
Maiden Voyage• The Titanic set off on
her maiden voyage from Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912.
• Captain Edward .J. Smith was in charge of the vessel and that should have been his last trip before planned retirement.
The Sinking• The Titanic was
struck by a iceberg on 14th April 1912.
• The ship sunk in the middle of the Atlantic and land was very far away so you could not swim.
• There was 28 people on a lifeboat instead of the capacity of 68.
• After the last lifeboat left there was still 1,500 people onboard.
Aftermath• 2 hours after the
Titanic had fully sunk RMS Carpathia came to the rescue and saved a lot of the passengers .
• She picked up 706 survivors.
• 1517 people died.