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The Titanic was built
The Titanic was built in Belfast, north Ireland being 883 feet long and 104 feet high.It was finished on May 31, 1911. -
Titanic set sail
he Titanic, being the largest passenger steamship, created some talk when it set sail from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912. -
Collision with Iceberg
At 11:40 ship’s time, on April 14, 1912, about four days after she set sail and 375 miles south of Newfoundland, the Titanic hit an iceberg. The collision caused the Titanic’s hull plates to buckle, opening 5 of the 16 watertight compartments. -
Disapperance beneath the waves
From the collision with the iceberg at 11:40 pm to when it disappeared beneath the waves at 2:20 am, it took nearly three hours. It was gone by the morning of the 15th of April, 1912. -
Over a century has passed
Over a century has gone by since the RMS Titanic came to rest on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It sank two miles to the bottom of the sea after an iceberg scraped open its hull. -
Deep-sea grave
A deep-sea grave became the final resting place of over 1,500 people who lost their lives in the disaster.
