The Titanic Impact On American History

The luxury steamship RMS Titanic was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners that were owned and operated by the White Star Line. The White Star Line company commissioned the building of the RMS Titanic to Harland and Wolff shipyard on the Queen’s Island in Belfast, Ireland. Harland and Wolff shipyard were commissioned to build the largest ship at the time. Measuring in at 269.1 meters the titanic was the largest ship built at the time, as well as it was the longest it was also the most expensive. $7,500,000 was the cost The White Star Line paid for the RMS Titanic to be constructed and completely furnished.

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.

On April 10th, 1912, the Titanic left London, England at around noon. It then stops in Cherbourg, France at approximately 7:00 PM to load up passengers and extra supplies. Next, the Titanic leaves for Queenstown, Ireland, and arrives at 12:30 PM April 11th to pick up even more passengers. After everyone and everything was on the ship, they leave the Queenstown port at about 2:00 PM to start the journey to New York, in the United States. On the first day at sea, survivors

During the building of the ship there were more than 250 outsiders. Eight men died. One unfortunate worker was crushed under the ship

The ship had received many iceberg warnings. The first one came from the RMS Caronia and the second came from the RMS Baltic (“Titanic History | Facts About Titanic | Titanic Wreck”). Since Ismay and the crew ignored the requests to reduce the ship’s speed, they continued the pace they were going in order to reach New York quicker. April 14, 1912, the ship was about 300 miles away from reaching its destinations when it hit the iceberg (“BBC - Homepage”). The collision with the iceberg was around 37 seconds after the iceberg was sighted by crew members, Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee (“BBC - Homepage”). When the iceberg struck the right side of the ship, surviving passengers said that the impact was barely felt. The collision took place at 11:40 and the ship was only in contact with the iceberg for only 10 seconds (“BBC - Homepage”). Since the media claimed the ship to be “unsinkable”, when the passengers heard what had happened, many of them did not believe the news and continued with their festivities. Captain Smith ordered the ship to come to a complete stop once he realized what had happened. The automatic doors were shut to prevent water from entering any other parts of the ship. The third class sections began to flood around midnight (“Titanic History | Facts About Titanic | Titanic Wreck”). Many of the third class passengers were trapped beneath the decks due to the locked doors and shut down elevators between each level. At 2:18 in the morning, the Titanic snapped in half (“Titanic History | Facts About Titanic | Titanic Wreck”). Within two minutes, the ship was completely underwater, sinking to 12,415 feet below the surface. The passengers who were not able to reach a lifeboat were drowned to death due to the pressure of this sinking ship or froze to death in the 28 degrees water. Almost all the passengers who were stranded in the freezing cold water

$7,500,000 worth of labor sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean at 11:40pm on April 14, 1912. The RMS Titanic has been a big name in history throughout the century, setting sail on April 10, 1912, and making a tragic collision with an iceberg just four days later, marking it in not only the history books but in pop culture as well. The Titanic is one of the worst nautical tragedies in history. Though it happened over 100 years ago, the mystery of “The Unsinkable” still fascinates people today.

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 was the product of intense competition amoung rival shipping lines in the first half of the 20th century.It was the most celebrated ship of its time even befire it set sail. The Titanic set sail for New York City on April 10th, 1912 but only had 20 lifeboats. Only enough for half of the 2,200 passengers on the ship. The first class had a 44 percent greater chance to survive than the other passengers and crew. Sixty-eight people could fit in a lifeboat but there was only about 24 people in a lifeboat. “ There was six watertight compartments at the front of the ship hull were breached. Five of them flooding within the hour. The Titanic was designed to stay afloat with four compartments flooded.” -History.com. This is

On April 10, 1912, the Titanic left Southampton, England on her voyage to New York City. The White Star spent all they had and spared no expense in assuring her luxury. She was a legend even before she sailed. The Titanic had passengers mixed with the world’s wealthiest basking in the elegance of first class accommodations and immigrants packed into steerage. She was said to be the safest ship ever built, so safe that she only carried 20 lifeboats, which was enough to accommodate for only half her 2,200 passengers and crew. This was decided due to the ship’s construction that was said to make her “unsinkable.” The Titanic was four days into her journey, when she struck an iceberg at 11:40 P.M. on April 14, 1912. The fireman compared the sound to “the tearing of calico, nothing more.” The collision was fatal and the icy water soon poured through the

On the night that everything went wrong, the Titanic received many ice warnings from other ships that were nearby. None of the crew members took those warnings seriously because the ship was supposedly indestructible. The crew quickly realized how serious the warnings were when they saw a huge, dark shape in the distance. They tried to steer away from the iceberg, but it was too late. The iceberg brushed along the side of the Titanic, and the ship came to a stop. Many people on board didn’t even realize the ship had hit anything, but many noticed the unsettling quietness after the engines stopped (Ballard

The Titanic was a very beautiful ship. She was 882 feet long and 175 feet tall, the Titanic included 4 elevators, “palm courts, gymnasium, swimming pool, squash court, turkish baths, and barber shop.’’ The Titanic was apart of White Star line, a company that owned ships. The Titanic and her sisters Britannic and Olympic came to be a reality because of competition with Cunard another ship building company. Cunard built Mauretania, a very fast ship. “Mauretania began service in 1907 and quickly set a speed record for the fastest average speed during a transatlantic crossing (23.69 knots or 27.26 mph), a title that it held for 22 years.” So they decided to build ships, that rather than fast were comfortable and ginormous, so the Titanic, Britannic (who was going to be called Gigantic but was then changed to Britannic after Titanic's sinking) and Olympic, were designed and built. The Titanic sank on April 14/15 near midnight after hitting an iceberg. She still lies “2.3 miles below the ocean's surface,” and “350 miles southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.” What is the best way to build a ship? Make it unsinkable of course, but what is the best way to do that? The lead designer of the Titanic and her sisters whose name was Thomas Andrews decided to add water tight doors to the Titanic, so that if it got damaged and water came in the ship, the water would not be able to take the place of the air that makes the ship have buoyancy and in turn the ship would not sink. The Titanic had 16 different watertight compartments, and up to 4 can be filled before the Titanic sinks. The only problem was with the radio coordinators and lifeboats. “Throughout much of the

Almost all of the people onboard the ship didn't even know what had happened until the ship started to sink. The ship had 16 watertight doors down where the boilers were. If the damage from the iceberg was a little closer together the ship would have stay afloat for longer than it did. It would have stayed afloat even if 2 or 3 of the boiler rooms were flooded, but since the damage was so spread out, 6 of the front rooms were filled so that meant it was going to sink. It sank within an hour to an hour and a half. A couple of hours before it sank the captain changed the coordinates to stay away from ice. Little did he realize he was going towards more ice now than he was before. A lot of the survivors said they did not even feel a jolt, they just became curious when the engines

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 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.

This article is credibly because it gives a timeline account about what happen that night. Testing shows that Titanic steel was brittle provides a new theory that the inferior steel was the ship downfall. The steel at that time was not as “impact-resistant” as modern steel. So the iceberg was not the only reason why the Titanic sank.