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Titanic: The Tragic Maiden Voyage

The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were over 2,200 passengers and crew on board and more than 1,500 died after the ship broke apart and sank in less than three hours. The wreck of the Titanic was discovered in 1985, over 70 years later, and it remains one of the most famous shipwrecks in history.

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Titanic: The Tragic Maiden Voyage

The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were over 2,200 passengers and crew on board and more than 1,500 died after the ship broke apart and sank in less than three hours. The wreck of the Titanic was discovered in 1985, over 70 years later, and it remains one of the most famous shipwrecks in history.

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TITANIC

The story about one catastrophe


RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star
Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of
April 15, 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from
Southampton to New York City.
There were 2224 passengers and crew aboard and more than 1,500 died.
Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class
ocean liners operated by the White Star Line.
After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France
and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland, before heading west to New York.[7] On
14 April, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of
Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship's time.
Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partially
loaded. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a "women and children first" protocol for loading
lifeboats. At 2:20 a.m., she broke apart and foundered with well over one thousand people still aboard. Just under two hours
after Titanic sank, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived and brought aboard an estimated 705 survivors.
The wreck of Titanic was discovered in 1985 (more than 70 years after the disaster) during a US military mission. Titanic has
become one of the most famous ships in history. Titanic is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only beaten by
her sister HMHS Britannic, the largest ever sunk.

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