Titanic Facts and Trivia
*Titanic weighed
46,328 tons. She was 882 feet long and 92 feet wide.
*Titanic was set
to sail from Southampton to New York on her maiden voyage, stopping to
pick up passagers at Cherbourg and Queenstown.
*She began her
maiden voyage on April 10, 1912.
*Her height would
have been comparable to an eleven story building.
*Titanic hit the
iceberg on Sunday, April 14. About two hours and forty minutes later,
she began her journey to the bottom of the ocean.
*There wee 2227
passagers and crew aboard. Only 705 survived.
*The lookout man
on the ship, who uttered the famous, "Iceberg right ahead!" was Fred
Fleet. He survived and later hung himself on a clothes post.