The Floating Palace

By: Aiden England

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Introduction

What made the Titanic such a great ship and what made it such a great tragedy? These are the questions that have been unanswered until now...

Questions will be answered, secrets will be 6/11/12 revealed, and the vision of the Titanic will be completely changed.

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From the first rivet to the last inches of the Titanic not submerged in the icy water, the explanation of the architecture will be uncovered.

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With its luxurious and elegant first class rooms to its complex inner workings, this ship is clearly...

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... a floating palace

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Blood, sweat, and tears were what made the Titanic such an exceptional vessel. Now, we will focus on the construction of the floating palace...

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It was commissioned by the White Star, a cruise line company. The agonizing construction started in Belfast, Ireland on March 31st, 1909.

Even though the Titanic is such an amazing ship, 6/11/12 the workers were the real amazing aspect of it.

With such a great vessel you would think that the 6/11/12 workers would get a high earning, but skilled workers just earned two pounds per week and unskilled ones get one or less pounds per week.

There is also a dark side of the construction. At 6/11/12 the end of construction out of the three thousand male workers, seventeen workers died and four hundred fifty workers got wounded or injured.

Finally, after all the tragedies and deaths, the ship 6/11/12 finally set sail at 12:14 p.m. on May 31st, 1911. After two years of construction, the mighty vessel of blood, sweat, tears, and seventeen lives, departed from its construction.

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After it set sail, the passengers really noticed the incomprehensible size of it but did no know the exact size.

Know wonder people use the word Titanic to 6/11/12 describe something large or heavy because the vessel was 46,328 tons, thats 92,656,000 pounds!

To make it even better, the anchor weighed 15.75 6/11/12 tons (31,500 lbs.). It was so heavy, it had to be transported by 20 horses pulling it on a large, strong wheeled cart.

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The dimensions of the ship were simply astonishing. It was 1,203 feet long, 92 feet wide, and 175 feet high! With a total volume of 19,368,300 feet!

To power the ship, it carried 5,344 tons of coal 6/11/12 (10,688,000 lbs.) which sent it to a top speed of about 20 knotts.

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This giant ship, with its 3,000,000 rivets, makes it a complex ship of wonders.

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With such a great ship comes great responsibility. Maintaining this ship was such a hassle; refilling boilers with coal, maintaining the engines, and keeping the patrons happy. These are what made it like a busy factory on water.

Above the ship it is luxurious and beautiful, but 6/11/12 under, there it is crowded, loud, and dirty, and complicated. Under it, there are 16 water-tight compartments that were used to keep the ship afloat. The ship sunk because the compartments were opened at the top, filled up with water and sunk the ship.

How this great ship is powered is simply 6/11/12 astonishing. There are 159 furnaces that powered four, 4-cylinder engines, two of which were driving engines that produced steam into a 420 ton turbine that powered the two bronze props.

The 159 furnaces consumed 660 tons 6/11/12 (1,320,000 lbs.) of coal per day making 100 tons (200,000 lbs.) of ash. When the heat from the furnaces make heat, it provides energy for the two driving engines, producing an average of 46,000 hp., sending the ship at a top speed of 23 knotts.

Surprisingly, out of the 4 smoke stacks on the 6/11/12 ship, only 3 are useable, the fourth one is a fake.

It is a mystery how these people can maintain a 6/11/12 floating palace.

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The Titanic is the face of ingenuity for the 1900s. It was a great feat, yet a great tragedy in the end.

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Blood, sweat, and tears will be forever stained in the ship.

6/11/12 As the lights of existence slowly fade from the wreckage of what used to be the Titanic, our respect for it grows as fast as it sank.

And again, with its luxurious and elegant first 6/11/12 class rooms to its complex inner workings, this ship is clearly...

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... a floating palace