The Titanic is one of the most famous ships known around the world as the once "unsinkable ship". April 15, 1912 the Titanic sank into the Atlantic Ocean on it's one and only voyage. The 825 ton ship can be found 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland 12,600 feet below the Atlantic. Building the Titanic took around 26 months to finish. The building began March 11, 1909 and by May 11, 1911 the Titanic was launched in the Victoria Channel. A total of 246 injuries and two deaths resulted from the building of the Titanic. The amount of injuries and deaths were low around that time. The massive ship was built to beat their rival Cunard. Harland and Wollf were the shipbuilders, where they chose Thomas Andrews as the architect of the Titanic. He decided to design the ship to be unsinkable by having sixteen different water compartments separated by watertight bulkheads, twenty-nine boilers to power the ship, and had two steam engines. The ship was thought to stay afloat even if four compartments were ruptured. April 10, 1912 the forty-five story high ship set sail. Luxury was the main feature of the Titanic …show more content…
First-class accommodations included five-star luxurious suites, a library, a swimming pool, and exercise room, and a Turkish bath. First-class also had its own dining area, smoke room, reading and writing room, reception area, and lounge. Second-class had its own dining area, smoke room, and library. Third-class accommodations had their own smoke/general room and dining room. The maximum capacity of the Titanic was 3,547 people, 2,223 we aboard the ship. Over a thousand of the passengers were
HISTORY keeps an accurate account of all historical events, including the Titanic, which include much of the known History of the titanic. The RMS Titanic was equipped to carry a 3,547 people at full capacity, which would have included all passengers and crew aboard. With a high passenger capacity, the RMS Titanic was equipped to carry 64 lifeboats, each lifeboat was able to carry 65 people. Since the Titanic was made of steel the architects had believed the
The Titanic is different from the other ships because, they thought that the Titanic was unsinkable. “It’s another ice burg warning…the captain had seemed quite unconcerned” on 106 and 107 so they aren’t worried that they will not hit the ice burg and sink because those people don’t think it can sink. “There was much talk among the passengers about the Titanic being unsinkable.” On 105 so they aren’t worried that the boat will sink. “Nicknamed the Unsinkable ship” on page 102 it even says unsinkable
TITANIC The April 14, 1912, the titanic sunk down with a lot of people on it. The titanic pose to been “unsinkable” but there was to many water weight compartments, so it sunk down hours after it got busted. Titanic pose to been the greatest voyage of all time but was it really?
This tragedy could have been avoided if the crew had not over estimated the largest ship in the world, built by a work force of 17,000 people. The designers and crew overlooked many details on the ship knowing that if this ship had ever sunk that they would not be ready for the rescue. The Titanic was considered unsinkable by just about everyone, including Paul Smith the captain of the boat. The crew and the builders of this ship had considered no worries about the Titanic, so they were not fully planned for this destruction (Ballard 11). The radio workers for the Titanic were not even on twenty-four hour surveillance. The workers of the ship thought that they did not need them there because they thought that nothing could go wrong. There was a "…planned preparation rescue effort"(The Titanic) that was meant for the crewmembers to go through many times. This preparation effort was only gone through one, the day before the maiden voyage. If the workers would of considered the massive Titanic as any other boat, they might have taken the correct precautions and more people might
It had 162 furnaces and 20 boilers, and there were two pumps and two drains in each boiler room. It carried a lot of food also- 75,000 pounds of meat, 11,000 pounds of fish, 10,000 pounds of sugar, 36,000 oranges, 7,000 heads of lettuce, 40 tons of potatoes, 40,000 eggs, and 20,000 bottles of beer, etc. The Titanic also had a swimming pool that was 7 and 1/2 feet deep in the shallower part but 8 and 1/3 in the deepest part. They called it the swimming bath. It had 5 different decks-
In some experts opinions the Titanic was doomed from the start. Like most star-liners from the time period, the Titanic featured water tight doors in the bottom of the ship’s haul to keep water from spreading to different areas of the ship in the event of a catastrophe. However, one flaw of these doors was if one of these compartments was flooded, water could spill in over the top into different parts of the ship. This could have been avoided sense other luxury vessels were already
“The first unsinkable ship” The RMS Titanic was called many things, the ship of dreams, grandest ship, and unsinkable. It was said that God himself could not sink her. It sailed off for its first and last voyage. From the tragic disaster of the movie the sinking Titanic remains one of the most famous tragedies in history.
The When White Star Line, and the Belfast based Harland and Wolff company came together, the result was three magnificent 'Olympic Class' liners. The Titanic was the second of the three dream liners. The Construction of the ships began December 16, 1908 starting with the Olympic. Shortly after, in march of 1909, the titanic began construction in Belfast.
Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. The largest ship afloat at the time it entered service, the RMS Titanic was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, and was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, her architect, died in the disaster. There are many reasons caused this accident: Mistake of the
On the 15th of April 1912, an unspeakable tragedy happened when the Titanic was destroyed on the way to New York City. A large titanic ship was not made ice berg proof so when it drove straight into the ice berg it sunk to the bottom of the water in 1 hour and a half. The 2,200 passengers, who died alongside the ship, died of coldness and some died of no food. The ship never reached its destination in New York City.
The Titanic originated from Greek mythology which meant gigantic, The Titanic's construction derived in Belfast, Ireland, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (which it was then known,) and there was an estimate of 2,224 passengers and crew members aboard the ship. The Titanic was and still is to this day a tragedy, On April 15, 1912, at 11:40 it hit an iceberg which led to the ship sinking, it took about two hours to sink to the bottom of the ocean, and more than 1.500 people had died. The Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people, which was not sufficient for everyone on board as The Titanic carried 2,224 people.
During the time that the ship was to be built, The White Line Company was fighting for supremacy over another shipping firm, Cunard. The British firm had two top ranking ships in its ranks and The White Line Company wanted to fight this holding and become the best of the best. In their fight to achieve this, J. Bruce Ismay who was the chief executive of White Star, decided to commission 3 new ships to be built that were bigger and more luxurious that any ship built ever before. The Titanic, the second of the ships to be build took two years to complete from the spring 1909 to the spring of 1911. In the following year, the ship was designed interiorly to help make it a luxury ship. In making the ship though, several mistakes were made that lead to the severity of the disaster. For one, the ships haul had water tight chambers that while were watertight, would allow water to move from one compartment to another. The people involved thought that because of the watertight chambers the ship was unsinkable when in fact these chambers did nothing to stop the ship from sinking. In relation to everyone thinking the ship unsinkable, White Star did not put enough safety boats on the vesicle. They thought the ship to be unsinkable so why put enough safety boats to fit everyone (Titanic,
The RMS Titanic; A Tragedy Based on Class. In April, 1912, the so called "unsinkable" Titanic set sail to New York. The great ship was as big as five city blocks, and weighed thousands and thousands of tons. Everyone who was everyone grabbed a room on the luxurious ship for the trip of a lifetime. On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg an sank into the icy depths of the North Atlantic.
The Titanic was heralded as a ship that was "practically unsinkable". The ship itself was 882 feet long, 92 feet wide, and weighed in at 46,328 gross tons. The ships vast size gave great credibility to it's stability. This, along with the great amount of steel used in it's body, contributed to the support. The hull contained sixteen watertight compartments, that could still allow the boat to operate properly, even when two of them were flooded. It also contained many features, that many ships of its time did not possess. The features included, a swimming pool, a gymnasium, and a compartment for automobile ("Sinking of the Titanic").
Titanic a true story, the story of the RMS Titanic, the actual event that took place on the night of 14 April through to the morning of 15 April 1912 in the north Atlantic Ocean. I felt it was so moving and real, I got to see actual real footage of the Titanic under the water, that's why it was so interesting to watch. A Headline from the New York Times; “Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg; 866 Rescued By Carpathia, Probably 1,250 Perish; Ismay Safe, Mrs. Astor Maybe, Noted Names Missing”. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0415.html.