Titanic~Ghostly Sightings

Her specifications were: Length overall: 882.5 feet Gross tonnage: 46,329 tons Beam: 92.5 feet Net tonnage: 24,900 tons Depth: 59.5 feet Cost: $7.5 million On 10 April 1912, the Titanic commenced her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York, with 2,227 passengers and crew aboard. At 11:40 p.m. on the night of 14 April, traveling at a speed of 20.5 knots, she struck an iceberg on her starboard bow. At 2:20 a.m. she sank, approximately 13.5 miles east-southeast of the position from which her distress call was transmitted. Lost at sea were 1,522 people, including passengers and crew. The 705 survivors, afloat in the ship's twenty lifeboats, were rescued within hours by the Cunard Liner, Carpathia.

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