0:01The largest passenger
ship in the world, was
0:03also one of the fastest.
0:07The Titanic was fueled
by a network of 29
0:10boilers. These
ferociously burned
0:13through 600 tons of coal
a day, feeding two steam
0:17engines. Each one the
size of a three story
0:22house, along with a
revolutionary new
0:25turbine. The engines
provided more than 45,000
0:30horsepower to the ship's
three super sized
0:33propellers. These drove
the huge vessel towards
0:37the iceberg at 25mph.
0:41So was the Titanic
simply going too fast?