{"product_id":"2940012113252","title":"TITANIC: The Titanic Book; Facts, Details And The Story Behind The Sinking of The Titanic","description":"FACTS ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNUMBER of persons aboard, 2340. Number of life-boats and rafts, 20. Capacity of each life-boat, 50 passengers and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecrew of 8. Utmost capacity of life-boats and rafts, about 1100. Number of life-boats wrecked in launching, 4. Capacity of \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elife-boats safely launched, 928. Total number of persons taken in life-boats, 711. Number who died in life-boats, 6. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTotal number saved, 705. Total number of Titanic's company lost, 1635. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cause of the disaster was a collision with an iceberg in latitude 41.46 north, longitude 50.14 west. The Titanic had \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehad repeated warnings of the presence of ice in that part of the course. Two official warnings had been received \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edefining the position of the ice fields. It had been calculated on the Titanic that she would reach the ice fields about 11 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eo'clock Sunday night. The collision occurred at 11.40. At that time the ship was driving at a speed of 21 to 23 knots, or \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eabout 26 miles, an hour. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere had been no details of seamen assigned to each boat. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of the boats left the ship without seamen enough to man the oars. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of the boats were not more than half full of passengers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe boats had no provisions, some of them had no water stored, some were without sail equipment or compasses. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn some boats, which carried sails wrapped and bound, there was not a person with a knife to cut the ropes. In some \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eboats the plugs in the bottom had been pulled out and the women passengers were compelled to thrust their hands \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003einto the holes to keep the boats from filling and sinking. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe captain, E. J. Smith, admiral of the White Star fleet, went down with his ship.","brand":"Drew Majors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145303965936,"sku":"2940012113252","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012113252_p0.jpg?v=1763552330","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012113252","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}