RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship up to that time. It remains the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship. The disaster drew public attention, provided foundational material for the disaster film genre, and has inspired many artistic works.
RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, the chief naval architect of the shipyard, died in the disaster. Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the ship. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia, and elsewhere throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in the United States and Canada.
The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with a gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants, and opulent cabins. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger "marconigrams" and for the ship's operational use. Titanic had advanced safety features, such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, contributing to its reputation as "unsinkable".
Titanic was equipped with 16 lifeboat davits, each capable of lowering three lifeboats, for a total of 48 boats; she carried only 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsible and proved hard to launch while she was sinking. Together, the 20 lifeboats could hold 1,178 people—about half the number of passengers on board, and one third of the number of passengers the ship could have carried at full capacity (consistent with the maritime safety regulations of the era). When the ship sank, many of the lifeboats that had been lowered were only about half full.
Kwento samin nun ng lolo ko, nakita nya daw ang pag lubog ng Titanic.
Sabi nya sa una pa lang daw sinabihan nya na daw ang mga tao na lulubog ang barko.
Pero hindi nila pinansin ang lolo ko, pero pilit parin ni lolo na ikumbensi ang mga tao hanggang sa dumating na sa punto na pinalabas na si...
Nahanap na ang piraso ng mini sub na nag implode daw dahil sa malakas ng pressure ng karagatan. Tingin niyo may foul play na nangyari? Puro mayayaman ang pasahero eh.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/22/us/submersible-titanic-oceangate-search-thursday/index.html
The amount of oxygen in a missing submersible with five people on board is becoming a vital issue, some experts say, as more advanced equipment is rushed to the North Atlantic Ocean in a complex...
Peanuts aren't nuts—they're legumes
Technically, a peanut is a legume, like beans and peas. The leguminosae family consists of edible seeds enclosed in pods. Peanuts grow underground, unlike all the other "real" nuts—like hazelnuts and chestnuts—which grow on trees and are considered drupes. By...
A book about the Titanic sinking was published years before it actually did
The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson was published in 1898; the Titanic sank in 1912. Robertson's book features a cruise ship named Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg in literally the...
A former journalist, Archibald Willingham **** was a well-known military aide and adviser to US presidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. He joined the army who fought during the Spanish-American War.
After the war ended, he was assigned to the Philippines as a volunteer and later...
"The heartbreaking real-life story of the old couple who died together in ‘Titanic"
If you’ve seen the film Titanic, you would know how it depicted the tragedy that killed more than 1,500 passengers when the British passenger liner collided with an iceberg, and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean...
The passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy.
Just five days before Christmas in 1987, the passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro Island in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. It was...
With construction of a Titanic replica well underway in China, we've unearthed a few interesting facts about the original.
1. The RMS Titanic was the world’s largest passenger ship when it entered service, measuring 269 metres (882 feet) in length, and the largest man-made moving object on...