Pic Talk: 1912 Titanic Ticket found

Titanic ship and its historic significance is well known to everyone. A Third Class Passenger Ticket issued on April 10th,1912 is available here.

The world’s largest ship with 2,200 passengers which left Southampton, England for New York, US on April 10,1912 sank with in 2 hours 40 min after colliding with an Iceberg,at 11.40 PM,four days after it started its journey on 14th April. 

Though Titanic was touted as the safest ship, it had only 20 life boats meant only to rescue passengers from other sinking ships. More than 1500 passengers died and only 705 survived.