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Made the titanic
May 31, 1911 The unfinished Titanic is lathered up with soap and pushed into the water for "fitting out." Fitting out is the installation of all the extras, some on the exterior, like the smokestacks and the propellers, and a lot on the inside, like the electrical systems, wall coverings, and furniture. -
The day it set sail
~10th April 1912
Noon
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Destiny of the titanic
An aura of weirdness surrounds the sinking of the Titanic. Most people focus on the actual sinking of the Titanic, and they completely miss the fact that the ship almost sunk right in its home port of Southampton, England. Okay, it may not have sunk, but it nearly collided with another ship called the New York ironically enough. If those ships had collidd and the Titanic had sustained enough damage, then the Titanic could have undergone an adequate stress test before setting sail across the Nort -
How long it took the titanic to sink
~Titanic collided with the iceberg at about 11.40 on 14th April. She sank below the water at 2.20am the next morning. A ship which had taken three years to fully econstruct was sunk in less than three hours. -
Bodies found
April 26th – May 3rd
, 1912: After seven days of searching, the Mackay-Bennett recovered a total of
306 bodies. Of these, 116 were buried at sea and of this number, only 56 were identified. -
Sinking
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before
