Ad
related to: the titanic in culture pictures and facts
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Titanic has been commemorated in a wide variety of ways in the century after she sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912. As D. Brian Anderson has put it, the sinking of Titanic has "become a part of our mythology, firmly entrenched in the collective consciousness, and the stories will continue to be retold not because they need to be retold, but because we need to tell them."
The Titanic has gone down in history as the ship that was called unsinkable. [a] However, even though countless news stories after the sinking called Titanic unsinkable, prior to the sinking the White Star Line had used the term "designed to be unsinkable", and other pre-sinking publications described the ship as "virtually unsinkable". [16]
Get a closer look at one of the most beautiful ships to ever exist with these rare photos. First-Class Bedroom There were 840 guest bedrooms — 416 in first-class, 162 in second-class, and 262 in ...
Titanic was 882 feet 9 inches (269.06 m) long with a maximum breadth of 92 feet 6 inches (28.19 m). The ship's total height, measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge, was 104 feet (32 m). [16] Titanic measured 46,329 GRT and 21,831 NRT [17] and with a draught of 34 feet 7 inches (10.54 m) and displaced 52,310 tonnes. [5]
The RMS Titanic departs Southampton on April 10, 1912. (Wikipedia) It riveted the world more than a century ago, yet photographs depicting the iceberg that may have caused the greatest nautical ...
Now, new photos taken this summer show that the view has changed dramatically. In the years since the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912, we have become familiar with haunting images of ...
Flowers and candles adorn the Isidor and Ida Straus Memorial on April 15, 2012, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Dedication of Straus Memorial, April 15, 1915. Straus Park is a small landscaped park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, at the intersection of Broadway, West End Avenue, and 106th Street.
When Titanic sank, claims were made that a curse existed on the ship. The press quickly linked "the Titanic curse" with the White Star Line practice of not christening their ships. [2] One of the most widely spread legends linked directly into the sectarianism of the city of Belfast, where the ship was built.