Second Index Card

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Titanic/construction.htm

• Titanic was built in Belfast by the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff.
• Construction of the Titanic began in 1909
• olympic was the titanics sister ship.
• Titanic was constructed with sixteen watertight compartments.
• Each compartment had doors that were designed to close automatically if the water level rose above a certain height.
• Weirdly, shortly after Titanic hit the iceberg it was revealed that the first six compartments were flooded.
• Only three of the funnels were used to expel smoke and waste gasses. The fourth was added to make the ship look more powerful.
• The three propellers on he Titanic were powered by steam.The rotation of the propellers powered the ship through the sea.
• The Titanic was finally launched two years after its' construction first began in the year of 1911.
• After that, they moved on to work on the interior of the ship. They worked on the interior for roughly ten months.
• The total cost of the RMS Titanic was $7.5 million (1912)