TITANIC

Mauritius Ship Models | Boat Models in Mauritius Titanic was a 282 meters long 46,328 tons transatlantic liner that could cruise at 25 knots. Built as 'Unsinkable', she was sub-divided by athwart ships watertight hull heads designed to prevent extensive flooding should her hull be pierced. Unfortunately, she side-swapped a massive iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland.The berg sliced through her iron plating flooding several compartments, dooming her to a watery grave on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Due to a deficiency of lifeboats on-board, only 651 of the 2207 passengers and crew she was carrying survived the tragedy.

The sinking of this great ship has kept the public interested for several reasons. The number of deaths, over 1500, was phenomenally large, and included celebrities and important people, such as the richest man in the world at that time. There were reports of a mystery vessel close by, which, if it had chosen to, could have saved all the people, and rewritten the history books. It did not. Captain Rostron’s heroic race to the scene of disaster aboard Carpathian is also legendary. The rediscovery of the wreck of the Titanic in 1985 by Dr. Robert Ballard’s team, and the subsequent making of a feature film in the late twentieth century, have helped to keep the tragedy in the forefront of many people’s minds.

TITANIC

Mauritius Ship Models | Boat Models in Mauritius Le 14 avril 1912, le majustueux R.M.S Titanic entreprend la derniere portion de son tout premier voyage en mer. A 17h30, arrive a Turning point, il effectue une manoeuvre pour mettre le cap sur New York, derniere etape du periple. Le geant avance alors a une vitesse respectable de 21,5 noeuds sous la gouverne du premier officier William M. Murdoch. Il fait noir dehors et la mer est d'un calme incroyable. Dans le nid de pie, Frederick fleet et Archie Jewell regardent l'horizon a la recherché d'obstacles a eviter. C'est que le poste de communication de Titanic a recu plusieurs avertissements sur la presence d'icebergs entre le quarante et le quarante deuxieme paraellele, au nord-est et au sud de la route emprunte par le geant. Le drame se produit a 23h40. La vigie voit trop tard la masse d'un iceberg et ne peut faire marche arriere. Lentement le Titanic prend l'eau sans qu'il soit possible de le sauver. Il somber quatre heures plus tard.

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