Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 peopleâslightly more than half of the number on board, and one-third her total capacity. After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York.hey were heated by burning coal, 6,611 tons of which could be carried in Titanic ' s bunkers with a further 1,092 tons in Hold 3. The furnaces required over 600 tons of coal a day to be shovelled into them by hand, requiring the services of 176 firemen working around the clock.
Everyone feels sad or low sometimes, but these feelings usually pass with a little time. Depressionâalso called âclinical depressionâ or a âdepressive disorderââis a mood disorder that causes distressing symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working.
I recently posted a question on my Facebook page asking people who'd suffered from depression to describe what it felt like so that those who'd never experienced it could understand it better. Here were the responses: 1. Depression is seeing no future, and no answer for any of the problems in your life.o those who are currently suffering from depression: I know how painful depression can be, because I've been there myself. But please take solace in the fact that you are not alone--as you can see from all these responses, and the dozens of others that, due to lack of space, I couldn't include in this article.