Titanic (White Star Line)

Post by **john sefton** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:43 pm

The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by British shipping company White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom. For her time, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world.

On the night of 14 April 1912, during the ship's maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on 15 April 1912. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people, making it one of the most deadly peacetime maritime disasters in history. The high casualty rate was due in part to the fact that, although complying with the regulations of the time, the ship did not carry enough lifeboats for everyone aboard. The ship had a total lifeboat capacity of 1,178 people, although her capacity was 3,547. A disproportionate number of men died due to the women-and-children-first protocol that was followed.

The Titanic used some of the most advanced technology available at the time and was, after the sinking, popularly believed to have been described as “unsinkable”. It was a great shock to many that, despite the extensive safety features and experienced crew, the Titanic sank. The frenzy on the part of the media about Titanic's famous victims, the legends about the sinking, the resulting changes to maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck have contributed to the continuing interest in, and notoriety of, the Titanic.

Name: RMS Titanic
Owner: White Star Line
Port of Registry: Liverpool
Route: Southampton to New York City
Ordered: July 31, 1908
Builder: Harland and Wolff yards in Belfast, UK
Yard number: 401
Laid down: 31 March 1909
Launched: 31 May 1911
Christened: Not christened
Completed: 31 March 1912
Maiden voyage: 10 April 1912
Identification: Radio Callsign "MGY"
UK Official Number: 131428
Fate: Sank on 15 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg
General characteristics
Class and type: Olympic-class ocean liner
Tonnage: 46,328 gross register tons (GRT)
Displacement: 52,310 tons
Length: 882 ft 9 in (269.1 m)[2]
Beam: 92 ft 0 in (28.0 m)[2]
Height: 175 ft (53.3 m) (Keel to top of funnels)
Draught: 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m)
Depth: 64 ft 6 in (19.7 m)[2]
Decks: 9 (Lettered A through G with boilers below)
Installed power:

* 24 double-ended (six furnace) and 5 single-ended (three furnace) Scotch marine boilers
* Two four-cylinder reciprocating triple-expansion steam engines each producing 15,000 hp for the two outboard wing propellers at 75 revolutions per minute
* One low-pressure turbine producing 16,000 hp
* 46,000 HP (design) - 59,000 HP (maximum)

Propulsion:

* Two bronze triple-blade wing propellers
* One bronze quadruple-blade centre propeller.

Speed:

* 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
* 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) (maximum)

Capacity:

Passengers and crew (fully loaded):

* 3547

Staterooms (840 total):

* First Class: 416
* Second Class: 162
* Third Class: 262
* plus 40 open berthing areas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic

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aukepalmhof · Post by **aukepalmhof** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:14 pm

Comores 2008 200Fc sg?, scott?
Maldives 2015 22Fr sg?, scott?

aukepalmhof · Post by **aukepalmhof** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:12 pm

All the new stamps of the TITANIC by Bjoern Moritz.
http://www.shipsonstamps.org:80/Topics/ ... en1203.htm

Maldives 2015 22Fr sg?, scott? and in margin of sheet

aukepalmhof · Post by **aukepalmhof** » Sun Sep 02, 2012 9:24 pm

Magyar Posta is issuing an exclusive commemorative stamp block in memory of the Titanic and Dr Árpád Lengyel, the ship’s doctor on the first vessel to hurry to the aid of the TITANIC, the British steamship RMS CARPATHIA. The main motif of this unusual philatelic product is the TITANIC heading towards the iceberg, while the stamps show parts of the liner. In the top right corner there is a portrait of Dr Lengyel and the outline of RMS CARPATHIA. The unusual feature of this release is that, in addition to offset printing and embossing, iridescent spot-varnish screenprinting, usually a security device, has been used and the particles scattered across the surface sparkle icily. The first day cover for the block features a portrait of Dr Árpád Lengyel, while the silhouette of a lifeboat has been used for the special postmark. Forty thousand copies of the stamp block designed by the graphic artist Arnold Feke have been made by the banknote printing company Pénzjegynyomda.

The TITANIC was built in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and when she was launched, she was the world’s largest steam-powered passenger liner. She left Southampton at noon on 10 April 1912 with 2207 pas-sengers on board. Several ice warnings were received on the evening before the disaster, but the high volume of telegrams prevented some from reaching the bridge. Although the TITANIC was the largest and most elegant vessel on the transatlantic route, it was not the fastest, which jeopardised the planned arrival in New York on 16 April 1912. For this reason it steamed full ahead and did not try to avoid the potentially dangerous area of drifting ice. At 11.40 pm on 14 April the watch spotted a floating iceberg. The officer on duty ordered the ship to be steered to the left and the port propeller to be put into reverse. A long time passed before the gigantic vessel slowly began to turn, and so the iceberg punctured a series of fatal holes below the waterline on the starboard side of the ship. The captain immediately sent distress signals and gave the order to abandon ship. RMS CARPATHIA heard the Mayday but was too far from the scene to offer immediate help. The TITANIC sank at 2.20 am on 15 April. The people in the lifeboats were picked up by the CARPATHIA about 75 minutes later. A few of the Hungarian passengers on the TITANIC survived, such as Mátyás Reischl, a waiter in one of the first class restaurants, and the Hungarian emigrants Lujza Hoffer, and Antal Kisik and his wife. The ship’s doctor of the CARPATHIA, which hurried to the TITANIC’s aid, was Dr Árpád Lengyel, who did all within his power to save the survivors, endangered by hypothermia. The survivors gave him a medallion in gratitude. His grave is in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.

Hungaria 2012 2x 800ft sg?, scott?
Gambia 2016 45d sg?, scott?
Mozambique 2017 100.00MT and 350.00MT.
Sierra Leone 2019 12.500 LE and 50.000Le sgMS?, scott?
St Tome et Principe 2019 Db31 and MS Db124, sg?, scott?

(Source: Hungarian Post. hu.wikipedia.org)