The Unsinkable Causes Of The Titanic

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The Titanic was built by Harland and Wolff, from the company called, White Star Line. The Titanic was created in Belfast, Ireland. The Boat measured about 882 feet in length. It had nine decks and 20 boilers. The Titanic “burned 650 tons of coal per day and reach about 16,000 horsepower” (Titanic Sinks). The Titanic crashed in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. The Titanic carried 2,200 passengers and crew butt, only life boats for 1,178. Only about 750 survived. The Titanic hitting a massive iceberg and sinking, will impact today’s world. Even Harland and Wolff claimed that they never advertised the ship as unsinkable. But White Star Line did believe it was unsinkable, “White Star Line brochure indeed said that the Titanic was designed
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