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The RMS
Titanic took 26
months to build .
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She spent four
days at sea on her
maiden voyage .
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At 11.40pm , on 14 April 1912 ,
a collision occurred 400 miles
off the coast of Newfoundland .
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By the end of 1912 , the iceberg Titanic struck had probably melted away completely . |
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Approximately
1,496 people died
in the disaster .
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Around 706 people
survived its sinking .
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There were only 20 lifeboats on the Titanic , and they could accommodate a maximum of 1,178 people . Enough lifeboats could have been fitted , but the owners decided not to fit them . |
The ship took two hours and 40 minutes to sink to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean . |
The ship had 840 staterooms ; 416 in first class |
4 restaurants |
Over 300 bodies were recovered from the water by ships shortly after the sinking . |
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162 in second class |
2 barber shops
2 libraries
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10,000 lamp bulbs |
1 gymnasium
1 squash court
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Many people died of hypothermia . Life expectancy in the water was about 20 minutes . |
285 toilets |
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262 in third class |
2 hospitals
1 fully equipped darkroom
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145 bathtubs |
1 post office
1 heated swimming pool
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The Titanic now lies 3,800 metres deep in the North Atlantic Ocean , about 370 nautical miles southsouth-east of Newfoundland . |