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• In the early 1900s Belfast was enjoying the greatest boom in its history.
• Belfast was best known for ship building
• Belfast's ship builders were Harland and Wolff
Why build the Titanic?
• The Titanic was built because of competition between White Star Line and Cunard
• Cunard had launched the two fastest passenger ships in 1907
Building the Titanic
• The Titanic was built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line
• It took three years to build the Titanic
• The Titanic was 883 feet long and 104 feet high
• Seventeen men died during the construction of Titanic and Olympic
The launch of the Titanic
• Titanic was launched on May 31st
• It was launched at Harland and Wolff
• Titanic was launched and put in the water at 12:15
Fitting out
• When the launch was over Titanic was towed to the fitting out basin to be turned into the floating palace she would become.
• The army of workers would put in the grand staircase, a swimming pool, restaurants, a gymnasium and a hospital
Maiden Voyage
• The Titanic sailed from Southampton on 10th April
• Then it picked up passengers at Cherbourg before finally collecting passengers in Queenstown in Ireland 11th April
The Captain
• Titanic’s Captain was
Edward John Smith
• He joined White Star
Line in 1880
• He was called ‘The
Millionaires Captain’
The Sinking of the Titanic
• On 14th April 1912 at 23:40 Titanic hit an iceberg
• It sank in less than three hours and had slipped beneath the North Atlantic at 02:20
• Unfortunately there were not enough lifeboats on board
Survivors
• 23% of the crew were saved and 77% were lost
• 38% of the passengers were saved and 62% were lost
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Rescuing the passengers
• There were 20 life boats on the Titanic
• Each lifeboat could carry 65 people when full
• Only half of the people could get into the lifeboats
• Unfortunately, many lifeboats left the ship which were not full
Acknowledgements
www.historyofthetitanic.org
www.census.nationalarchives.ie
Heroes of the Titanic book
www.discovery.com
www.encyclopediatitanica.org
www.titanic-titanic.com