Comparing Titanic To Modern Ships And Cruise Liners
Titanic – White Star Line Maiden Voyage: 1912 Gross Tonnage: 46,000 tons Length: 882.75 feet Beam: 92.5 feet Cruising Speed: 21 knots Passengers: 2,500 Crew: 898 Queen Mary – Cunard White Star Line Maiden Voyage: 1936 Gross Tonnage: 81,237 tons Length: 1,019.4 feet Beam: 118 feet Cruising Speed: 28.5 knots Passengers: 2, 139 Crew: 1,101 Queen Elizabeth II – Cunard …
Recovering Titanic’s Dead
To the crew of the Mackay-Bennet, a cable laying vessel chartered by the White Star Line immediately after the disaster, went the horrific job of recovering as many bodies as was possible from the North Atlantic. All of them volunteering for the harrowing task ahead, they would be paid double for the voyage that lay before them. This …
Titanic’s Maiden Voyage
Titanic was now ready to travel. The crew were all aboard, save for a couple of thirsty firemen enjoying a last-minute pint in one of Southampton’s many public houses who would miss the departure. Luckily, there were spare members of crew on standby ready for this very situation, which obviously occurred on a regular basis, and they were duly ‘signed on’, the …
Replica Titanic
Ever since the release of James Cameron’s movie ‘Titanic’, there has been a whole host of schemes and projects all promising the same thing: the re-creation of a faithful replica of Titanic. Many people even set-up websites proclaiming to have a company which was going to build a new, all-improved Titanic , only for these sites to disappear weeks …