The Ship Ran on Coal Fuel
Titanic required around 600 tons of coal every day to keep her massive engines running, so it departed Southampton with more than 6,000 tons of coal. The coal was shoveled into enormous boilers with three furnaces. The employees, known as firemen, shoveled coal into the furnaces in extremely hot and unclean conditions. Many of these men were among the first to perish as the compartments where they worked flooded and watertight doors automatically sealed in an attempt to keep the rest of the ship from leaking.
The Ship Ran On Coal Fuel
Titanic Had Four Stacks
Titanic featured four huge funnels, commonly called as stacks. The ship’s engines vented the smoke through these funnels. Three of them functioned as smoke stacks, while one served as an air vent. When the boiler rooms began to fill with water, there was much concern that the cold seawater would react with the warm steam held in the funnels, causing them to explode. In order to avoid this, the firefighters and engineers had to swiftly evacuate as much steam as possible from the stacks.
Titanic Had Four Stacks
