The Outline Of The Titanic

1912 was an influential year, when many notable events happened. The Girl Scouts of America was founded, Fenway Park opened, but one event is still influential over a hundred years later. No other shipwreck had such an enduring imprint upon the public consciousness that impacted many aspects of maritime law as well as the monetary impact this incident had upon families, companies, and the financial market.

Captain Edward Smith stayed on the boat while it was sinking. He was an English naval reserve officer. He

At the time, the ship was the biggest existence of the ship and the largest movable object ever built. Owned by the White Star Line, one of a number of shipping companies who transported people across the Atlantic, was designed to be the flagship of their fleet. Captained by Edward J. Smith, the Titanic was believed to be completely unsinkable. On April 10th, 1912, the Titanic set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic destined to New York. Aboard were 2,200 passengers and

sunk at around 2:20am. There were 9 dogs total on board the ship, only 2 were rescued. 1,503

In May, 1911 the ship entered its first body of water in a river located in Belfast. It being one of the

James Andrews was the designer of the Titanic, James laid the first keel plate to start the construction on the Titanic. The Titanic was constructed at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast Ireland. The gantry built over the Titanic was over 220 feet in the air. The main Anchor on the TItanic was transported to the ship by twenty horses, the ship had a total of three anchors which weighed an estimated thirty one tons. Sixteen watertight compartments were constructed into the lower level of the ship to keep water from spreading throughout the ship. The doors were set to close automatically after the water got so deep, the doors could also be closed manually by the bridge. Construction workers also installed boilers in six boiler rooms which were powered by coal ,which workers shoveled coal into the boilers. Propellers on the Titanic were called the “Triple screw” the ship had three propellers one in the middle and the other two on the left and the right. The two outer propellers had a diameter of twenty three feet and the middle propeller had a diameter of seventeen feet. Titanic’s propellers were powered by a total of three engines. The four smoke stacks or funnels were connected to the boilers so the smoke and excess chemicals from the coal could exit the ship, each smokestack was 62 feet tall. The hull of the Titanic consisted of one inch thick iron plates which were held together by over three million rivets, for the wealthier passengers they had “portholes” or

The idea to build the Titanic was brought up by J. Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie. Lord Pirrie is the chairman of Harland and Wolff shipbuilders, and Ismay is the director of White Star Line. They were attending a dinner party at Pirrie’s Mansion. The talk was about a new ship created by Cunard, a British shipping company. They had just completed Lusitania and Mauretania, two luxurious ships that could cross the ocean in five day.

April 15, 1912. A day that would take the lives of many, and haunt those who had survived. This is the day that the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic struck an iceberg, killing over 1,500 people aboard the ship. From day one of the Titanic’s creation, it held the hopes and dreams of many people with its promises of elegance, grandeur, and safety. Though from the 12th of April, the Titanic became a source of tragedy and action as people faced the outcomes and the changes made to prevent the accident to ever occur again. This catastrophe that occurred included numerous details among the ship that still startle those today, yet when the ship sank, the outcomes lead to acts in the United States to avoid this occurrence, and troubled memories from survivors.

The Titanic set off on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City carrying about 2,200 people on board but just after four days into its journey, the Titanic struck an iceberg and within three hours of its journey it plunged into the depth of the ocean killing over fifteen hundred passengers. Some researchers claim the legendary Titanic may have never sunk at all and was swapped with an identical vessel thus, being one of the biggest insurance scams in history. The real story begins in 1907 when American financier JP Morgan, ordered a new class of ships. The construction of a new class of super liners for his company white star line. The Olympic was the first ship created and looked identical to the Titanic. In 1911 the Olympic collided

The making of the Titanic started during a competition between the White Star Line and another company named the Lusitania, Mauretania. It was designed as the biggest ship ever at the time, the two companies were competing to make the ship. It was made to be an “unsinkable” ship that could withstand just about anything thrown its way.

Built by Harland and Wolf to be “unsinkable”, the Titanic was 883 feet long, 92 feet wide, 175 feet high, and cost $7.5 million. Construction began on March 31, 1909. (Technical Facts about the Titanic)

The hull or the bottom structure of the ship weighed half of that amount of steel. For being so large it was designed to only travel at the speed of 20-22 knots. On June 14, 1911, The Olympic officially entered the ocean workforce being the ninth out of fourteen four-shacked ocean liners ever to be built, her maiden voyage was made a few days later to New York in exactly 5 days, 16 hours, and 42 minutes traveling on average 21.7 knots.However it was launched into viewing before the sailing on the same day as the Titanic’s maiden voyage beginning May 31,1911. As this cruise liners was pulling out of the port, The Titanic for the first time was revealed as was her date of sailing the following year as it still had some adjustments to be made. On this maiden voyage it was taken under consideration for The White Star Lines’ next cruise liner the Titanic that the Promenade deck have added more rooms as there is too much space on this deck and that the passengers wouldn’t be the only ones to occupy the spacing. It was Bruce Ismay who made the order to fix spacing issues that were solved to only hold more people than just letting the space be wasted. An interesting fact about this ship is that in many of the books that show the Titanic are not really pictures of the Titanic because it really didn’t get that much paparazzi and that she never came back from the maiden voyage, the books usually showed

Why was the ship that sank in 1912 on her maiden voyage called the Titanic?

Many know about the Titanic movie, but not many know about the real facts and details of the real ship. The Titanic, is a ship that was sailing from Britain to North America in the Atlantic Ocean. Their voyage was shortened due to the large ship hitting an iceberg. Scientists recently discovered that the iceberg that sank the widely-known ship, The Titanic, was 100,000 years old at the time of the ship’s sinking.

It took nearly 40,000 tons of concrete to build the foundations of Belfast’s Titanic, almost the same as the Titanic ship.