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The majority of passengers aboard Titanic were emigrants traveling 3rd class. Interestingly, they were also the smallest percentage of passengers saved. It has been argued that steerage class passengers did not have the same chances for survival because they were deemed less important than the other classes and therefore, treated differently.

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Facts about the Titanic

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Sinking of the Titanic for kids: FAQ's
Fast, fun facts and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) for kids about the Sinking of the Titanic.

What year did the Titanic sink? The date the Titanic sank was 15 April 1912.

Where did the Titanic sink? The Titanic ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada in latitude 41.46 north, longitude 50.14 west.

How many people died on the Titanic? 1503 people died of the 2228 passengers and crew. There was a total of 705 survivors - (33%) of people were saved.

Why did the Titanic sink? The RMS Titanic ship collided with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, United States of America

How did the Titanic sink? The "unsinkable" ship was hit by the iceberg along its starboard side, punching holes in the ship's steel plates which flooded six compartments. The Titanic split in half from bow to stern. The "unsinkable" Titanic took 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink after hitting the iceberg at 11.40pm.

What was the cause of the Titanic disaster?
The cause of the disaster after the iceberg was struck were delayed response for help, insufficient lifeboats, the use of low grade rivets.

Sinking of the Titanic Facts and Info for kids: Brief Facts for kids via the Sinking of the Titanic Fact Sheet
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● The picture on the left shows a single berth suite
● The 1st class cabins were tastefully decorated in different styles from different periods
● The cost of a one way ticket on the Titanic in first class was:
● 1st Class (parlor suite) £870 / $4,350 ($83,200 today)
● 1st Class (berth) £30 / $150 ($2975 today)
● The First class passengers had their own restaurants, grand staircase, promenade decks, library, smoking room, barbers, squash court, swimming pool, gymnasium and a Turkish bath

A first class single berth suite

● The picture on the left shows a single berth cabin
● The 2nd class cabins were tastefully decorated in but smaller than first class rooms and were not with en-suite facilities
● The cost of a one way ticket on the Titanic in second class was:
● 2nd Class tickets were £12 / $60 ($1200 today)
● The second class passengers had their own restaurant, staircase and smoking room

A second class cabin

● The picture on the left shows a two berth cabin
● Most third class rooms accommodated 4 - 6 people
● There were Third Class Public toilets and two bath tubs for the passengers
● The cost of a one way ticket on the Titanic in third class was:
● 3rd Class tickets were £3 to £8 / $40 ($298 to $793 today)
● The third class passengers had their own dining room, staircase and smoking room. A piano was also provided in the 3rd Class common room
● Most third class passengers were immigrants moving to the United States of America

A 3rd class two berth suite

"April 14.-The German steamship Amerika (Hamburg-American Line) reports by radio-telegraph passing two large icebergs in latitude 41.27, longitude 50.08.-Titanic, Br. S. S."

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● The unverified photograph of the iceberg is said to have been taken by chief steward of the Prinz Adalbert German liner on the morning of 15 April
● The Chief Steward took the photo because a great scar of red paint ran along the iceberg's base, suggesting a recent collision with a ship.

● The picture shows a Titanic lifeboat awaiting rescue from the Carpathia
● There had never been any lifeboat drills and the crew had not been informed that each lifeboat could be safely lowered when filled to capacity
● The life jackets were made of canvas and cork

● The lifeboats were scattered over an area of five miles, and it was 8 a. m. before they had all been picked up
● The Carpathia subsequently returned to New York with the passengers and crew she had rescued

● The ship in the novel was called the Titan, the largest ship ever built
● Both ships were labeled "unsinkable"
● Like the Titanic, the fictional ship sank in April in the North Atlantic
● There were not enough lifeboats for all of the passengers
● Both ships sank and lost over half their passengers

● On 22 March 1886, he published an article called "How the Mail Steamer went down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor"
● ● The article tells of a steamer that collides with another ship, resulting in a high death toll due to an insufficient ratio of lifeboats to passengers
● ● William Stead had added: "This is exactly what might take place and will take place if liners are sent to sea short of boats"
● Then, in 1892, William Stead published a story entitled "From the Old World to the New" which told of a ship, called the Majestic, that rescues survivors of another ship that collided with an iceberg

William Thomas Stead (5 July 1849 - 15 April 1912) had always predicted he would die by drowning. His prophecy came true. William Stead was a passenger on the Titanic. He was traveling to America to take part in a peace congress at Carnegie Hall at the request of President William Howard Taft. William Stead died clinging to a raft with John Jacob Astor IV. Both men lost their hold on the raft as they became numb from the freezing water.

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When the Titanic first sank, more than two thirds of its passengers met a watery end. Would you have been one of the lucky survivors...?
When the Titanic was launched, she was the biggest ship in the world. A vast ocean liner, she was built to carry passengers and cargo to and fro across the Atlantic. Other ships may have been faster, but the Titanic's owners, White Star, claimed she was the biggest, the best, the most luxurious - and the safest ship of all time...

To make sure the Titanic didn't sink, her hull was made up of 16 separate sections. If two, or even three, sections got holes, the ship would still have time to sail to safety. White Star were so sure the Titanic was unsinkable, they didn't put enough lifeboats on board. This would prove to be a BIG mistake...

On 10 April, 1912, the Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage, from Southampton, UK, to New York, USA. At first, she made good progress, but just before midnight of day five, in the freezing-cold North Atlantic Ocean, an iceberg loomed out of the darkness. The Titanic was so big, she couldn't change direction quickly enough. She scraped along the iceberg's side, tearing holes in at least four sections of the hull!

Captain Edward John Smith and his crew knew that the Titanic would sink in just a few hours, and so they quickly tried to make ready the few lifeboats they had. However, many of the passengers were asleep, and most didn't believe that anything bad was happening. The ship was still afloat, and not tilting. And, after all, the Titanic was unsinkable - wasn't it?

Into the icy ocean

The first lifeboats were launched half-empty, wasting precious spaces. When the ship did start to go down, everyone rushed for the last lifeboats. But it's thought that only about 705 of the 2,200-plus people on board made it to safety. Many jumped into the ocean to try to escape. But the water was a body-numbing 2°C, so most of those who went into the sea died from the cold, not from drowning!

Last survivor

The longest living survivor from the Titanic was Millvina Dean, who lived to be 97 years old. She was just a baby when she, her mother and brother made it into one of the lifeboats. Millvina lived to tell the tragic tale until 2009, when she passed away.

Finding the wreck?

In 1985, oceanographer (a sea scientist) Dr Robert Ballard used the Argo, a robot submarine, to find the wreck of the Titanic lying on the seabed. Since then, lots of interesting items have been salvaged from the sunken ship, such as tickets, letters and priceless jewellery.

So, if you had been on board would you have survived? It all depends on who you were...

- YOU were a woman or child: Women and children were allowed to board the lifeboats first. However, some men did get a place when the first few lifeboats didn't fill up.

- YOU were rich: First-class passengers were lucky - they had cabins on the upper decks, closest to the lifeboats. Many poorer passengers, in 'steerage' class on the lower decks, didn't reach the lifeboat deck in time.

- YOU obeyed orders: If you had got into a lifeboat as soon as the crew told you to, you would probably have survived. Remember that, next time you're on a ship!

- YOU were brave: Many people were too scared to leave the big ship for the tiny lifeboats. Others stayed on board because they didn't want to lose sight of their friends or family. To survive, you needed the courage to go for it.

- YOU were willing to push: In the final struggle for lifeboat places, those who pushed, won!

- YOU had stamina: Some survivors were plucked from the icy water after hanging onto bits of floating wreckage for more than half an hour. They had hung on to life!

Did you know that we have a FREE downloadable Titanic primary resource? Great for teachers, homeschoolers and parents alike!

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You might have heard of the famous RMS Titanic luxury ship which sadly sank after hitting an iceberg on April 15, 1912 on her very first voyage.

Let's explore some awesome facts about the Titanic.

On 30 April 1907, at a dinner between J Bruce Ismay and Lord William James Pirrie, the idea to build the Titanic sprang to mind.

They wanted to build a ship that was even better than the luxury Cunard line on the Atlantic.

Once they'd decided what they were going to do, the planning went full steam ahead.

It took 3 years to build and cost $7,500,000 (equivalent to $400 million today).

8 of the 3000 construction workers - who were paid $10 per week - died during construction.

The Titanic was built in Belfast in the Harland and Wolff shipyard by the White Star Line company. It was owned by JP Morgan, an American tycoon.

The big launch

After her launch in Belfast, Ireland on 31 May 1911 in the presence of about 90 crew members and a crowd of about 100,000 people, she took 62 seconds to travel the slipway sliding on 22 tons of soap and tallow.

It was a grand occasion. On 2 April 1912 the Titanic sailed for Southampton from Belfast.

On 10 April 1912 she sailed from Southampton docks on her first Atlantic crossing to New York.

The journey was meant to take 137 hours.

The captain was Captain Edward J. Smith, who was a master at sea with over 43 years' experience.

Lots of people say that he actually ignored iceberg warnings as he was trying to set a new time record. This isn't true. That would be very irresponsible!

What was the Titanic like?

The Titanic was almost as long as three football fields, as tall as a 17 storey building, with four smoke stacks; only one of the smoke stacks was for decoration to give the ship a balanced look.

The engines used more than 800 tons of coal daily and the top speed was 24 knots (27 miles per hour).

She was one of the first ships to have a telephone system and electric lights in all bedrooms, with four elevators, a heated swimming pool, a gym, two libraries and two barber shops.

There were 840 staterooms, 9 decks and 10,000 light bulbs. Wow!

Ticket costs

The cost of a First Class ticket was $4,350 (£875). It was $1,750 for a Standard Class ticket and $30 for a Third Class ticket.

The Third Class tickets were mostly for families who were emigrating to the United States.

In many cases they had sold everything to get onto the Titanic and to give them some money to get started in America.

Those were some seriously expensive tickets!

All about the passengers and crew

Titanic could carry about 3,547 people when fully loaded, which is both passengers and crew but they sailed from Southampton with 2,223 on board.

1,324 were passengers and 885 were crew.

There were 13 honeymooning couples too.

When the Titanic sank, the total number of survivors was around 705. Of these, 492 were passengers most of them from First Class, along with 214 crew members.

All 25 engineering officers died whilst trying to keep the ship afloat.

Two dogs survived and the band played music till the ship went under.

Unfortunately, none of the band members survived.

What supplies did the Titanic have on board?

Here are just some of the supplies the Titanic carried (she certainly did carry a lot!):

75,000 pounds of fresh meat

36,000 apples

40 tons of potatoes

1,000 loaves of bread

10,000 pounds of sugar

40,000 fresh eggs

6,000 pounds of butter

15,000 bottles of ale

8,000 cigars

The sinking of the Titanic

On 14 April 1912 the Titanic received warnings of icebergs in the area from other ships. The lifeboat drill for that day was cancelled by the Captain, so the crew didn't know what to do.

After the second iceberg warning the ship changed course, which ended up being a big mistake as it took it right into a collision course with the iceberg.

More warnings came, but Captain Smith didn't receive them. He also didn't receive the final one at 9.40pm that night.

At 11pm the crew on the ship "Californian", sent a message to say she'd stopped sailing due to icebergs, but the acting captain wasn't interested.

The fatal iceberg was 15 miles (24 kilometers) away. There was no wind and the waters were calm. This actually made it more difficult to spot icebergs as you couldn't see water breaking up against it.

Titanic hit the iceberg at 11.39pm. When the Captain put out a distress signal, the nearest ship - the Californian - 20 miles (32 kilometers) away, had turned off her wireless.

The ship Carpathia - 58 miles (93 kilometers) away - sent a message to say she was on her way, but she was actually four hours away.

Lifeboats were launched, but lots of them weren't actually very full.

By 2.20am the Titanic slipped beneath the freezing water which could kill people quickly.

By 4.10am the Carpathia arrived and the captain Arthur Rostron said: "Except for the [life] boats beside the ship and the icebergs, the sea was strangely empty..."

By 8.30am the Californian arrived after realising the disaster and by 8.50am the Carpathia sailed for New York with 705 survivors and many dead.

It was a very sad occasion.

Interesting Facts about the Titanic

The approximate age of the iceberg's snow was 10,000 years. Only 1/10 th of its mass could be seen above water.

Titanic could carry 64 lifeboats.

48 lifeboats were originally planned for the ship, but this was reduced in number so the decks would look less cluttered. This meant that 20 lifeboats were actually carried aboard.

It took 74 years before the wreck was rediscovered 2.3 miles (nearly 4 kilometers) under the sea.

It took 15 minutes for the Titanic to reach the ocean floor, sinking at a speed of around 10 miles per hour (16 kilometers per hour).

About 6,000 artifacts have been recovered from the wreck to date.

When it opened, the movie Titanic was the first film to ever reach the billion-dollar mark.

The initial total amount of money the movie made was $1.84 billion.

It stayed the highest grossing film until Avatar passed it in 2010.

Further Reading

Read more about the story of Harland and Wolff and Titanic.

History facts.

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