《管理英语4》期末复习题4解析(11)

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Titanic was launched on 31 May 1911 and sailed on her voyage from Southampton to New York, （via Cherbourg and Queenstown,）on 10 April 1912. With a gross tonnage of 46,328 tons, she was the largest ship afloat;（882 feet long, 92 feet wide, 8 decks rising to the height of an 11-storey building.）Four days and seventeen hours after the voyage began, at 11:40 p.m. on Sunday 14 April, she hit an iceberg and was badly damaged. Two hours and forty minutes later she sank. Of the 2227 passengers and crew, 705 escaped in twenty lifeboats and rafts; including her master, Captain Edward Smith. At dawn on 15 April the Cunard liner Carpathia, having heard the Titanic’s wireless distress calls 58 miles away, arrived at the scene and began picking up survivors.