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Originally designed to carry 32 lifeboats, RMS Titanic sailed to its fate with only 20, enough for only half the passengers. When launched from the sinking ship the lifeboats were not full, worsening the tragedy still further. Scale 1:35. Learn More
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Fitted as a frigate, HMS Bounty is the ship that sailed into the history books in 1789 when Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers forced the tyrannical Captain Bligh and 18 loyal crew members into an open longboat with few provisions and cast it adrift. The Bounty sailed on and anchored at Pitcairn Island, while in an extraordinary feat of seamanship, Bligh and his men survived the open sea to make land on the island of Timor: a journey of 4,000 miles!
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