The Ship Ran on Coal Fuel
Titanic required about 600 tons of coal every day to fuel its massive engines, therefore it departed Southampton with almost 6,000 tons of coal. This coal was shoveled into three-furnaced big boilers. In extremely hot and dirty conditions, the personnel, known as firemen, shoveled coal into the furnaces. Many of these men were among the first to perish as the compartments in which they worked flooded and watertight doors automatically sealed to keep the rest of the ship from leaking.
The Ship Ran On Coal Fuel
Titanic Had Four Stacks
The Titanic featured four massive funnels, sometimes known as stacks. The smoke was evacuated through these funnels by the ship’s engines. Three of them served as smoke stacks, while the fourth served as an air vent. When the boiler rooms began to fill with water, there was much concern that the cold seawater might force the warm steam held in the funnels to explode. To avoid this, the firemen and engineers had to swiftly evacuate as much steam from the stacks as possible.
Titanic Had Four Stacks