What causes surface ocean sea water to have a higher salt content? high rates of evaporation and low rates of precipitation What evidence indicates that salt content of ancient oceans was about the same as today?
Quick Answer. The RMS Titanic weighed 46,328 tons gross with a displacement of 52,310 tons. The ship set out for its first voyage on April 10, 1912. It sank on April 14, 1912 after hitting an iceberg, killing over 1,500 people. Continue Reading.
The Titanic was a ship that sank on her maiden voyage from Belfast to New York by colliding with an iceberg in the Atlantic ocean in 1912. Of 2229 passengers and crew, only 713 survived to be rescued by the MV Carpathia, making this the largest loss of life on a passenger vessel at that time.