The story of the Titanic in numbers
Today is a very famous day in history, you know why? On this day in 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail. This article is about the Titanic. However, not the history of the ship, but a slightly different view of the number of different information of the ship is presented here.
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Over a period of 3 years, about 3,000 workers (two of whom died in the line of duty) built this ship, about 9 feet long (72 feet 9 inches) long, about the size of a blue whale.
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Can you tell me how much it cost to build the Titanic? As of that period, 8.5 million means 75 lakh dollars. On different websites on the internet you can calculate how the value of money changes from year to year. As of 2020, this figure is close to ২০০ 200 million. How much can you say in Bangladeshi money? More than Rs 1,69 crore!
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The ship had a maximum capacity of 3,548 people but had a total of 2,223 passengers that day. Unfortunately, the ship initially had 84 lifeboats, which could accommodate 3,546 people. But in the minds of the authorities, an arrogance called 'unsinkable ship' took place. That's why they thought so many lifeboats were superfluous. The Titanic got only 20 lifeboats, which is not even 1 / 3rd of the original plan. It would have accommodated 1,17 passengers.
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At the time, a first-class ticket cost 60. In contrast, the first class passengers got many facilities including pool, gymnasium, Turkish bath, squash court, cafe, dining salon.
A third-class ticket, on the other hand, cost 'only' ৩ 3, with a common room, two bathtubs and a simple dining salon for those passengers.
An interesting fact to keep in mind here is that Titanic had no room number but 13!
There was no shortage of food for 2,223 passengers. 65,000 pounds of fresh meat was taken, of which 25,000 pounds were poultry. There were 16,650 bottles of beer, spirits, wine; There were 1,01,000 fruits and 40,000 eggs. These were taken to eat 130,000 pieces of crockery. Every day 14,000 gallons of water was needed, which is what is called fresh water.
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The Titanic not only carried people and food, but also contained more than 3,300 bags of letters as a Royal Mail ship, bringing the total number of correspondence to more than 6 million. To keep the monster afloat, the ship's 29 boilers burned 650 tons of coal a day.
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At 11:40 pm on April 14, the giant iceberg was spotted. But there was no time to do anything right. Because, in just 40 seconds, the iceberg collided with the Titanic. Immediately 5 airtight compartments of the ship broke and water entered. The Titanic collided with the iceberg at a speed of 22.5 knots, or about 26 miles per hour.
The night then started at 12 o'clock, i.e. 15th April as the date. The captain asked for help from nearby ships. Unfortunately, the nearest ship, Carpathia, was then 56 miles away. The Titanic was then about 400 miles from nearby land.
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The first life boat was unloaded at around quarter to one in the night. Although a maximum of 65 people could sit here, less than half due to the rush, that is, 26 people sat in the first life boat.
At 2:10 pm all the lights of the ship went off. In just 6 minutes, the whole ship broke apart, as shown in the movie Titanic. After that it didn't take long for the whole to sink. In just 2 minutes, this 47,000 tonne 'unsinkable' monster sank into the sea.
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The water temperature was then only 2 degrees Celsius. The people floating in the sea did not last long. On average, each one lasted only 15 minutes.After that, in the severe cold, they also migrated to other places. Just like the movie Jack.
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Carpathia arrived at the scene around 3:30 pm. By then, more than 15 hundred passengers of the ship had died. The next day, Carpathia left for New York at 7:50 a.m. with 605 survivors. The ship reached its destination 3 days later, i.e. on April 17 at 9 pm.
Now let's come to life and death. It is also much influenced by the class. You can understand by looking at the account:
First Class - 63% alive, 36% death
Second class - 42% alive, 56% death
Third Class - 25% alive, 85% death
Crew - 23% alive, 8% death
The Titanic sank about 2.3 miles below sea level. In other words, the ship sank to a depth equal to the height of the New York Empire State Building, which was 10 in a row. Its ruins are scattered over an area 15 miles below sea level.
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On September 1, 1975, 63 years after the sinking, Robert Ballard found the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.Under the Titanic Relief Fund, the amount of money handed over to the victims of this accident is currently about 31.4 million US dollars or about 265 crore rupees. This fund was in operation till 1959.
605 people came back with memories of the tragic end of the Titanic. In time, they too departed from the earth one by one. The last of these was Milvina Dean. He almost died in 2009. He was only 2 months old when the Titanic sank.