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.
Construction was headed by Harland Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland and the Titanic was designed to be a bigger and better version of her little sister called the Britannic. Titanic construction was funded by American industrialist J.P. Morgan and ended up being 882 feet, 9 inches long and 92 feet wide. The titanic had the capacity to carry 3,547 making it the largest passenger vessel of its time. The ship came complete with every luxury one would want from a cruise liner.