Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 peopleâslightly more than half of the number on board, and one third of 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. On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship's time.
A: The line fair is foul and foul is fair is from the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and it means that what appears to be beautiful is actually ugly, and vice versa. The play centers around themes of deception.
neither very bad nor very good; average: in fair condition; apparently favorable but really false; specious: fair words; Archaic without obstacles; clear and open: a fair road; Baseball of or having to do with the part of the field on or between the foul lines, including home plate; Origin of fair