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.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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