The New York Times, New York
RMS Titanic Struck in Atlantic Ocean on an iceberg, which lead the ship to sinks after 4 hours once it launched.
On 11:40pm on 14 April 1912, it is the maiden voyage for the RMS Titanic Ship to travel from Southampton to New York. The ship struck in Atlantic Ocean on a n iceberg which eventually leads to the sinking of the ship at around 2,20am on 15 April 1912. The collision leads to loss more than 1,500 lives including passengers and crew of its 2,208 people.
The Titanic crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage because of The high pressure meant there was a lack of fog. 6 warnings of icebergs the Titanic received before the collision. However, it takes about 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink after hitting the iceberg. 64 lifeboat the Titanic is equipped to carry, but in facts it tooks only 20 lifeboats for some reason. The boat had a capacity of carrying 28 people at once but at the first board it tooks 65 people. 866 is the number of people who actually survived from 2,208, more than 1,500 dies at a percentage of 31.6% survive, 56.4% dies. …show more content…
It cost $7,500,000 just for building the RMS Titanic. It could carry up to the maximum number of 3,547 people, 2,223 the number of people aboard including the passengers and crew. For food and drink it used 14,000 gallon of drinking water every 24 hours, 40,000 fresh eggs plus 1,000 bottle of wine taken aboard.
Overall, There are a lot of losses lives which is a bad news. The lifeboat carry more than they should but still are a lot of losses because the ship did not had enough boats. There were some missing boats that they did not put it on the ship from the first