31/05/2023
RMS TITANIC HANDCRAFTED OCEAN LINER 40"
• The model is 100% scratch built with planks on frame construction method from the drawings.
• The hull is made of wood and painted. The windows are cut and see through. Model is built with lights and ready for display.
• Specifications: 40L x 4.72W x 9.06H (inch) or 100L x 12W x 23H (cm)
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• You want to have a customized model, a special model to your liking please contact us to complete it.
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Titanic facts
1) Titanic was built by a company called White Star Line. She was completed and ready for the ocean on 31 March 1912, after three years in construction in Belfast, Ireland.
2) And she was no ordinary ship, Titanic was the most impressive and luxurious ship of her time! She was the biggest, too, measuring 28 metres wide, 53 metres tall and 269 metres long — that’s about the length of three football fields!
3) On 10 April 1912, Titanic set out on her maiden voyage (first big journey), taking people from Southampton, England, to New York, USA. On route, she called by Cherbourg in France and Queenstown in Ireland to pick up more passengers.
DID YOU KNOW?
Boats are traditionally referred to as ‘she’. Historians think this may be the result of links in our language to Ancient English. Or perhaps it dates back to the idea of goddesses protecting ships on dangerous journeys!
4) Titanic’s full title was RMS Titanic. Any idea what RMS means? It stands for ‘Royal Mail Steamer’. As well as passengers, the ship carried nearly 3,500 sacks of letters, packages and documents.
5) There were over 2,200 people on board Titanic, 900 of which were crew members. The passengers included holiday makers, business men and people hoping to start a new life in America.
MORE TITANIC FACTS
• The most expensive tickets to travel aboard Titanic cost about $99,000 in today's money.
• The Titanic was almost as long as three football fields.
• To feed the passengers and crew, Titanic had 86,000 pounds of meat, 40,000 eggs, 40 tons of potatoes, 7,000 heads of lettuce, 3,500 pounds of onions, 36,000 apples, and 1,000 loaves of bread on board.
• Titanic was one of the first ships to have a telephone system and electric lights in all the rooms.
• Including the four smoke stacks, the Titanic was as tall as a 17-story building.
• Titanic had four elevators, a heated swimming pool, a gym, two libraries, and two barber shops.
• Each day, the passsengers and crew used 14,000 gallons of drinking water.
• Titanic's engines used more than 800 tons of coal each day. The ship's top speed was 24 knots (27 miles an hour).
• Smoke and steam made by the Titanic's boilers escaped through three stacks. Builders added a fourth stack because they thought it made the ship look better.
• Titanic could carry 3,547 passengers and crew. About 2,200 people traveled on its first voyage.