Informative Speech: The Wreck Of The Titan

On April 30, 1907, Bruce Ismay and William James Pirrie had an idea to build a ship, the Titanic. “Harland and Wolff of Belfast, Ireland built the ship,” (United States). Within a few days short of five years, the Titanic was then ready to set sail from Belfast to Southampton. There were 2,223 passengers on board making their way to a better life. The Titanic made it to Southampton the next day, and then set sail for New York. The Titanic gave many people a chance to start a new life in America, and it was known as “The Ship of Dreams”. The ship consisted of millionaires all the way down to immigrants. This dream ship was also said to be unsinkable, however, this story is something that literally went down in history. Many sources state that the cause of the Titanic’s demise on April 14, 1912, was due to a variety of causes such as, the way the rivets were placed, the airtight rooms were not airtight, there were not enough lifeboats for the number of passengers present, Captain Smith avoided iceberg warnings, and the weather that night was a major problem altogether. Each of these played a key role in the tragic downfall of the White Star Liner ship, the Titanic, but the rivets and construction of the ship were the main issues at fault.

Many people called the Titanic unsinkable because the ship was so big, expensive, and took three years of hard work to build, A large number of people believed the Titanic couldn't sink, “My mother said to my father, Isn’t that the ship that they say is unsinkable? And he said, No, this is the ship that is unsinkable” (C.Q.D. THIS IS TITANIC). People who bought a Titanic ticket were most likely very rich, and thought the Titanic was a safe and sturdy ship. The Titanic was called the unsinkable ship, yet it sank on its very first voyage. When the beautiful ship sank, it became a marvelous and intriguing story in this world today. The sinking of the Titanic was not expected, which is why trouble came once passengers knew the boat was going down. There were not enough lifeboats for everyone who boarded the Titanic, and no one was ready for this disaster to occur. The Titanic was jinxed when people said it was an unsinkable ship. Furthermore, when the Titanic was in the midst of sinking it communicated with many other ships, but all were very far away, except for the Californian, and “Unbelievably, the Titanic’s crew could even see the Californian in the distance, but were unable to contact the other ship despite their repeated

The article Into the Dark Water by Lauren Tarshis is about when the most massive, high in technology, indestructible ship sunk. The Titanic of course. Also when passenger and survivor Jack Thayer shared his journey, through his writing with author Lauren Tarshis. It makes the article more intriguing to use quotes because it makes you feel as if you are on the ship on that night.

The "watertight" compartments of the Titanic's hull were not actually watertight: they were open at the tops. This is one main factor that aided in her demise. The ship could have actually stayed afloat had only four compartments flooded; sadly, five became flooded. One witness, Colonel Archibald Gracie, stated the collision was “a sudden shock and noise forward on the starboard side.” Other passengers might not have heard or felt anything, that is, until the boat started sinking.

submarine. The ship sank in twelve minutes. Over the course of five days and four nights many

quickly consumed the ship. Many souls drowned that day and many more were victims of the fire and

The “unsinkable” Titanic’s maiden voyage was a disaster because she split in two from crashing into an iceberg. 1,517 people died from the horrible tragedy, only 706 people survived.

was on one side which caused the ship to list and drowned more than 850 people (Bellows) .

There it is, the Titanic, scattered along the ocean floor. It lays peaceful and undisturbed. Looking away for only a moment, people are going to awake the grave site. This is not necessarily a good thing. Further, out in the distance, you can see the people that once belonged. They are crying out to their loved ones, longing to regain their tranquility once again. The artifacts down in the Titanic are very symbolic, which must stay. To some, it is to remember the ones that have been lost, and even what can happen from a tragedy. The true problem is should we bring these relics to museums, or should be we leave them be. Good may come from this, but maybe it cannot. These precious artifacts must remain where they are meant to be, even if that means they are thousands of miles apart from us.

All the information I find about the weaknesses of the hull will be reported using information from a number of sources. They will be referenced using the Harvard referencing system in the document. They will be used and referenced from in chronological order in the typical report style format. The references will be listed in alphabetical order at the end of this report document. This document will be laid out using headers to divide up the different sections that I will explore and report on. All the sections will be explored and described to cover the information required to report upon the topic of this account. The main sections I will explore will be an Introduction and about the RMS Titanic’s maiden voyage, an analysis of the materials used in the construction of the RMS Titanic, the effects that temperature has on the materials especially metals, the different compositions of the steels and how that effects the material’s properties and I will also be comparing the steels used in the construction of the RMS Titanic’s hull with the steel used to construct lock gates and the modern equivalent structural steel

Water was rushing in at an estimate of 7 tons of water per second! Also after the order was given to uncover all of the lifeboats, passengers and crew members came to the deck. For instance, there was only enough lifeboats for half of the 2,227 passengers on board. Which is all found at historyonthenet.com.

Slavitt also points out that it profited to be rich and of a higher class when it came time to pick whom to save on the Titanic and I accept that Slavitt was taking a punch at humanity for this downsizing framework. Slavitt paints an acceptable picture of the emotions that one may have on the acclaimed ship as it sinks: yes, I am kicking the bucket, yet I am passing on in the lap of extravagance, and my relatives will grieve my grievously rich demise. I never truly imagined that such an unplanned passing would be fortunate, yet upon reflection, I understood that the individuals that kicked the bucket with the Titanic are everlastingly deified. They will never be overlooked, only on the grounds that they happened to meet their inescapable closures on an extravagant

Although there was such hype for the Titanic and it was supposedly the first of its kind, it was apparently doomed from the start. This new Olympic class ship had a double bottom and 15 watertight bulkheads, which were equipped with electric watertight doors; a switch on the bridge could operate these separately. Shipbuilder magazine actually claimed these bulkheads as “unsinkable” however the manufacturing of these bulkheads had a huge flaw. Even though the bulkheads were watertight, water could leak from one compartment to another practically creating a flood in the compartments.

At that time, it was believed that the Titanic was the safest ship. As Tibbals describe it, as having an outer layer to protect the inner layer with double bottom to protect it from any hole could occur in the outer layer. The doors in the bottom were automatic watertight to prevent any water to come inside, as it could closed immediately if there is any water leak. This was some of the reason that made the people say that it is unsinkable ship.

“Seafare, the new frontier for our modernized world.”- Cunard Line shipbuilding franchise. Back the 1800’s, the main goal for shipbuilding companies around Europe, was the crossing of the great Atlantic Ocean. These competitions would rowel up the people of Europe, giving them more reason to believe that mankind can perform anything. The Atlantic voyages, were the space race of the 1800’s, each company tried to make the biggest ship, and the fastest ship, to make it across the Atlantic in record time. However, even in this golden age of Atlantic travel, many problems slowly brewed across Europe. Even in the races, captains were blinded by their intent to finish first, the lives of the passengers lied at stake. In this time, many ships sunk