The Titanic And The Sinking Of The Titanic

The Titanic was at the height of luxury at the time. It was built in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It had fifty telephones and heaters. It took 14,000 workers to build with state of the art comfort. The Titanic only had three working funnels. The fourth funnel was fake. It was put on to make it look more symmetrical and powerful. In total The Titanic weighed 46,000 tons ( Pipe 1-5 ). The Titanic had fifteen electric watertight walls inside the hull that shut automatically if water reached them. It costed 7.5 million dollars to build and it was launched on May 31, 1911. It was meant to be luxurious and not built for speed. It was 882 feet long, ninety two feet wide, and 175 feet tall ( Denenberg 5-10).

During the time of her construction, Titanic was designed to be the largest, grandest, safest, and most technologically advanced ship during her time. Her designers and engineers set out to build a class of ocean liners that could compete against White Star Line’s rival company, Cunard. However, when Titanic, the second of her sister ships sunk on her maiden voyage, it shook the world and it had a major impact on the world and its people. One of the main effects was the effect on safety regulations. Titanic only carried enough lifeboats to sustain roughly half of the passengers and crew on board. At the time, Titanic actually exceeded the amount of the lifeboats required by the British Board of Trade regulations by 10 percent.

The RMS Titanic was built due to a competition among rival shipping lines in the early 1900’s. The work began in March of 1909 in a shipyard located in Belfast, Ireland. When the building was finished the ship measured to be 882 feet in length and 92.5 feet at the broadest point being one of the largest of its time.

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

The deluxe steamship, Titanic set sail from Southampton, United Kingdom on April 10, 1912. The Titanic was a luxurious ship that carried some of the wealthiest people of the world as well as emigrants searching for a new way of life, it was said to be a “floating palace.” The technology that was present on this ship was remarkable for the time period. It had high-tech capabilities and was one of the best accomplishments. As the palace was on its voyage to the Port of New York, it ran into a large iceberg. The impact was so large that the ship’s hull plates were forced inwards, allowing water to rush in. The ship slowly sank on April 15, 1912. The Titanic’s crash became the most iconic shipwrecks in history and grasped headline after headline. This paper has article reviews from James P. Delgado, David

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

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

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.

In the day rivets were the main means of putting ships together, three million rivets were used on the Titanic and we can speculate that had the Titanic never hit the iceberg, she may have never sank. The builder of the Titanic struggled for years to obtain enough good rivets and riveters, and ultimately settled on faulty materials that doomed the ship. The steel rivets were of a good enough quality for the ship

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

On April 14,1912 a great ship called the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. That night there were many warnings of icebergs from other ships. There seems to be a conflict on whether or not the warnings reached the bridge. We may never know the answer to this question. The greatest tragedy of all may be that there were not

Designed by James Andrews, the building of the Titanic took place in Belfast, Ireland, under the company “Harland & Wolff”. Building began on March 31, 1909, with the involvement of around three thousand people--which was about 20% of the workforce at that time. There were eight fatal incidents and forty-six minor injuries during the build. Over the course of three years, 7.5 million dollars and 3,000,000 rivets (a mix of iron and steel) were used. With this much money and time invested to complete the ship, it was pretty safe to say they were confident the “Unsinkable” would live up to its name.

The iron rivets were too weak. Metallurgists said that the materials used for the building of the Titanic at its Belfast shipyard found that the steel plates toward the bow and the stern were held together with low-grade iron rivets. The low-grade iron rivets would have ripped apart more easily during a collision, causing the ship to sink more quickly.

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.

The construction of the RMS Titanic started on March 31, 1909 in Belfast, North Ireland and cost $7.5 million. The man who designed it was a naval architect named Thomas Andrews. The ship was built to be the world’s largest passenger steamship, along with two other ships, the Olympic and Britanic. Although the ship has always been known to many as unsinkable, it was actually never supposed to be advertised like that. Extra measures were put into the ship to insure safety, for example, if four watertight compartments out of the 16 were flooded, the ship would still stay afloat. Even though all these precautions were made, who would have ever thought that a single iceberg could cause such a huge devastation.