The RMS Titanic

By Charlie M

Contents

Construction

Facilities Onboard

Maiden Voyage

The Sinking

Aftermath

Construction

• On the 31st March 1909 construction starts to build the Titanic.

• The Titanic was built in Belfast by a company called Harland and Wolff between 1909 to 1911 for the White star line shipping company.

Facilities onboard

• On the Titanic there was a gymnasium, a swimming pool, a squash court and many more.

• Both first and second class could use a smoking room, a reading room and more.

Maiden Voyage

• The Titanic set off on her maiden voyage from Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912.

• Captain Edward .J. Smith was in charge of the vessel and that should have been his last trip before planned retirement.

The Sinking

• The Titanic was struck by a iceberg on 14th April 1912.

• The ship sunk in the middle of the Atlantic and land was very far away so you could not swim.

• There was 28 people on a lifeboat instead of the capacity of 68.

• After the last lifeboat left there was still 1,500 people onboard.

Aftermath

• 2 hours after the Titanic had fully sunk RMS Carpathia came to the rescue and saved a lot of the passengers .

• She picked up 706 survivors.

• 1517 people died.