The Sinking Of R. M. S. Titanic

The Titanic had one trip to do but during that trip a iceberg cut the ship on the side.

The weight of the ship is supposedly to hold up over thousands pounds. Without the proper measurements, the less survival rate there is for passengers in an event of a crash. Another assumption is how passengers from each class behave and act quickly when the disaster happened. We assumed that the price of the first class passenger increased chance of surviving the sinking.

About a hundred years have passed since the British passenger liner met its fatal end in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912. The RMS Titanic plummeted two miles to the ocean floor after clashing into an iceberg during its journey to the Port of New York. Over 1,500 people drowned in this unfortunate event. Ever since the sinking, numerous books and remarkable films have been made, telling the story of the ship and its passengers. The wreck of the ship was found in 1985 by the coast of Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic Ocean. Over the years, Titanic’s story has gained unbelievable public exposure and warns people about the danger of not being cautious enough. The Steamship, Titanic, was the end-result of fierce competition among competitor shipping lines in the early 1900s. The White Star Line company competed with Cunard, a British company with two ships that ranked in the categories for the most sophisticated and luxurious during their time. One of Cunard’s masterpieces, Lusitania, met its devastating end in 1915 when a torpedo was fired by a German U-boat and sunk the ship. The sinking killed about 1,200 out of 1,959 people on board and was the gateway to the United States’ entry into World War I. We chose this topic to write about because of the overwhelming impact that the event had on American history. The three categories on the Titanic are: the creation of the boat, passengers and luxury on board, and the night of the unfortunate tragedy.

The sinking of the Titanic has become one of the most well-known disasters in history, because of the terrible loss of life and the demise of what everyone believed was an "unsinkable" ship. As is evident from reading this report the use of substandard rivets was the main cause of the failure of the Titanic. By substandard we mean that the type of rivets used was incorrect as well as the location of these rivets.

The Titanic left a huge mark in history, even people today still have questions about what happened. The Titanic’s maiden voyage was on, Wednesday, April 10, 1912. It was such a remarkable ship, even under the water Robert Ballard was impressed about it’s details. On April 14, 1912, the Titanic received a total of seven iceberg warnings in one day total. This tragedy was so huge Robert Ballard said “The loss of the Titanic was as saddening to the people of the at time as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was to a later time . Something seemed lost forever. People’s view of the world is shaken up because of such tragedies The most recent example is the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. As with the Titanic too much confidence

Only 651 people had gotten into lifeboats when the Titanic sank. It means first 651 people got into the lifeboats. Then the Titanic sank

Some would say that one’s social status or financial abilities makes them worth more than one another. Titanic passengers were divided into three separate classes, determined not only by the price of their ticket, but by their wealth; the third class passengers consisted of immigrants and diverse groups of different nationalities, who were moving to the United States and Canada to find a better way of life (Brewster 25). Spike Milligan once stated, “Only the third class tourist class passengers’ deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.” The treatment of the third class passengers on the infamous ship The Titanic was shameful and unjust due to their eating and sleeping conditions, mistreatment, and repercussions during the sinking.

Many people around the world know the story of the sinking of The Titanic. However, far fewer know the story of the sinking of the Sultana, which was the worst maritime disaster in United States history.

The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg in the morning of 15th April 1912 during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

Contrarily to all expectations, the rate and severity of marine accidents did not recede satisfactorily in contrast to a century prolific in rule-making and in the implementation of modern technologies.

John Dewey’s concept of a “public,” (sic) as a group of individuals who together are affected by a particular action or idea, which was introduced in his The Public and Its Problems, is not dead. This definition is vague and broad enough that it is adaptable to societal changes. The variety and sheer volume of the “public” has grown exponentially with the changes in technology and transportation. These changes have eliminated boundaries and made the transmission and receipt of information almost instantaneously. Kruckeberg and Tsetsura (2004) asked: “is today’s communication “revolution” more accurately a “reformation” in which each person can be his or her own journalist within a global milieu of interactive multimedia?” (p. 85) Comparing the reporting on two historical tragic events illustrates the answer to this question.

There are lots of horrific events that happen but the Titanic seemed way more worse than most horrific accident or natural disaster because the titanic hit an iceberg and sunk and the and killed many people. In the beginning of the article it was just a normal night,then in the middle of the article that is when the bad stuff starts to happen like the boat hits an iceberg and starts to sink.

The Titanic’s maiden voyage was a disaster because many people died. The death of so many individuals could of been preventable. If the Titanic wasn’t moving so fast they could of avoided contact with the iceberg. Another issue was the lookouts didn't have binoculars and everyone ignored the warnings from other ships. Another reason so many died is because they didn't have enough lifeboats for everyone aboard. The lifeboats that they did have weren’t being filled to full capacity. More people could have survived than the few that did.

On Sunday, April 14th, 1912 at 11:40PM the starboard side of the Titanic scraped along an iceberg. The passengers felt a vibrating jar. Water Began to rush into the 300 foot gash. First Officer, William Murdoch quickly closed the watertight doors. Captain Smith returned to the bridge and asked Officer Murdoch, “What have we struck?” Murdoch confirmed that the Titanic had struck an iceberg. Captain Smith asked Fourth Officer Boxhall to inspect the forward area of the hull. Officer Boxhall hurried to inspect the damage and returned to inform them that the Orlop deck was flooded forward of the #4 Watertight bulkhead. Captain Smith asked him to establish the Titanic's position and requested that Thomas Andrews and the ship carpenter “Sound the

Tragedy. Sadness. Death. These are all words people would normally use to describe the tragedy of the Titanic, and it’s mainly because of the lack of lifeboats on the ship. However, what most people don’t think about are the other factors that contributed to that fateful event. If I could give advice to anyone, it would be none other than White Star Line, Titanic’s creator, because there is something that most people didn’t, and still don’t know. White Star Line had created Titanic with many flaws from the start, all of which had led to the sinking of the great ship.