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The Titanic is one of the most famous ships known around the world as the once "unsinkable ship". April 15, 1912 the Titanic sank into the Atlantic Ocean on it's one and only voyage. The 825 ton ship can be found 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland 12,600 feet below the Atlantic. Building the Titanic took around 26 months to finish. The building began March 11, 1909 and by May 11, 1911 the Titanic was launched in the Victoria Channel. A total of 246 injuries and two deaths resulted from the building of the Titanic. The amount of injuries and deaths were low around that time. The massive ship was built to beat their rival Cunard. Harland and Wollf were the shipbuilders, where they chose Thomas Andrews as the architect of the Titanic. He decided to design the ship to be unsinkable by having sixteen different water compartments separated by watertight bulkheads, twenty-nine boilers to power the ship, and had two steam engines. The ship was thought to stay afloat even if four compartments were ruptured. April 10, 1912 the forty-five story high ship set sail. Luxury was the main feature of the Titanic …show more content…

First-class accommodations included five-star luxurious suites, a library, a swimming pool, and exercise room, and a Turkish bath. First-class also had its own dining area, smoke room, reading and writing room, reception area, and lounge. Second-class had its own dining area, smoke room, and library. Third-class accommodations had their own smoke/general room and dining room. The maximum capacity of the Titanic was 3,547 people, 2,223 we aboard the ship. Over a thousand of the passengers were

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