Titanic, also translated as RMS Titanic, is an Olympic-class cruise ship under the British White Star Shipping Company, with a displacement of 46,000 tons. It started construction at Harlan and Wolf Shipyards.
Titanic was the largest passenger ship with the most luxurious internal facilities in the world at that time and had the reputation of "unsinkable ship". Unfortunately, on its maiden voyage, Titanic was doomed-it set off from Southampton, England, and sailed for new york, USA.
191April 14 At about 23: 40, the Titanic collided with an iceberg, which caused the starboard bow to rupture to the middle of the ship and flooded five watertight compartments. At about 2: 20 am on April 15, the Titanic broke in two and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean at 3,700 meters. Of the 2,224 crew members and passengers, 15 17 were killed, of which only 333 bodies were found.
inner structure
The total registered tonnage is 46,328 tons, the displacement is 523 10 tons, the power is 59,000 horsepower (43MW), the speed is 23-24 knots, and the total * * * can carry 3,547 passengers and crew. The power plant includes two reciprocating four-cylinder three-expansion inverted-cylinder steam engines and a Parsons low-pressure steam turbine, which drives three propellers.
The power of 25 double-ended boilers and 4 single-ended boilers on board comes from 159 coal-fired boiler. Powerful power made the maximum speed of Titanic reach 23 knots (43 km/h). Of the four chimneys with an average height of 65,438+09 meters (63 feet), only the first three are used for smoke exhaust, and the remaining one is used as a foil. The only practical use is as a chimney in the main kitchen (in the British, the fourth chimney was once used as a life-saving exit).