The Titanic : The Causes And Impacts Of The Titanic

Most people thought that the Titanic was unsinkable, but they couldn’t have been any further from the truth. The Titanic’s maiden voyage in the early 1900s was cut short due to a collision with an iceberg. The Titanic was a tragic event that helped change sailing for years to come because of the massive casualties and the sinking of an unsinkable ship.

My favorite history experience has to do with the movie called “The Titanic.” Not just the movie but the actual event happening. I wish I could have been there and survived the experience to be able to tell the amazing, life changing story. The movie and the actual sinking of the ship affected me in many ways. I think it also affected the way we make our boats today. When I seen this movie and realized not only how much the world has changed since the titanic happened, but the way we think and how we build things differently.

April 15, 1912 the “unsinkable” Titanic had almost three hours before it was no longer afloat, but plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. Blueprints, journal & logs, and tons of witnesses were thoroughly inspected over the past 100 years to help solve the question agonizing question, why. For the 100-year remembrance of the tragic event, Smithsonian Channel released a documentary, Titanic’s Final Mystery. Dedicated Titanic detective and historian, Tim Maltin releases his theory on how the “unsinkable” sank.

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

During the time of her construction, Titanic was 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.

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 catastrophic sinking of the Titanic, over one hundred years ago, continues to drive scientists to search for answers. Was this simply an unfortunate maritime disaster, or did human error play a role in Titanic’s demise? Bruce Ismay, president of White Star Lines, had a dream. A dream, to build a magnificent luxury liner that would transport people across the Atlantic Ocean in style. With the help of the owner, John Pierpont, and ship designer Thomas Andrew Jr., the ship of dreams was soon a reality. However, Titanic’s maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, from Southampton, England to New York, made history in an inconceivable way. Sadly, over one thousand innocent people went to a watery grave in the middle of the cold, dark, Atlantic Ocean.

Some Titanic survivors testified to detecting a tilt. There were multiple issues with structure proficiency supposedly, so improper cargo and bunker trimming could've caused a lean. Wreckage photos revealing an underlying "M" and "P" where Titanic lettering eroded have surfaced, but they were deemed manipulated because of their clarity. All other images don't indicate underlying lettering. Highlighting Olympic's two-day sea trial at full-speed, Gardiner asserts the propped Titanic had only one day at half-speed. Given the similarities of the ships, a complete trial might not have been

Some passengers had switched their bookings from other ships to the Titanic just to have

The Titanic was never thought to sink as it was said to be unsinkable. The crew members, builders, and citizens that were on the ship were all under the influence that they were invincible to the world. When the Titanic was on its way to the destination the

The Titanic was a passenger ship, not a battleship, so it was not built to take on huge icebergs. It states in the article that nothing was wrong in the building of the Titanic, but anything is possible. Man’s error could have been a big factor with the sinking. The ship was built among time pressures, not because of cost, which put a huge strain on the shipyard. If the builders were given more time, then mayne the ship would have been stronger and could have withstanded more. Higher quality rivets and thicker hulls might have kept the Titanic afloat for much longer.

3. In Geoff Tibbals book written in 1997 “The titanic” the ship ended up being 883 feet long and weighed 52,310 tons. But by today’s standards of cruise liners it is quite small. 4.

The titanic was said to be the largest most luxurious ship at the time, also known as the “unsinkable”. After three years of building this huge luxurious “unsinkable ship” the titanic was to begin its first and only voyage. On April 15th, 1912 the titanic struck an iceberg causing the biggest disaster in modern times. The sinking of the Titanic took many innocent lives, it was said to be an unsinkable ship till 5 days later after it left for its first transatlantic voyage.

Imagine going on what is supposed to be a magnificent vacation, but turns out to be a horrendous disaster. The titanic was the biggest man made ship and was supposed to be an unsinkable ship. Work began in 1909 in the massive Harland and Wolff yard. Titanic continued nonstop until the spring of 1911. “There was peace and the world had an even tenor to its way. Nothing was revealed the morning the trend of which was not known the night before. It seems to me the disaster about to occur was the event that not only made the world rub it’s eyes and awake but woke it with a start keeping it moving at a rapidly accelerating pace ever since with less and less peace, satisfaction, and happiness. To my mind the world of today awoke April 15, 1912.”-Jack B. Thayer a titanic survivor.

Fight or flight is a dilemma that nearly every passenger aboard the Titanic must have contemplated once they learned the fate of the magnificent ocean liner. While it is easy to assume that women had the upper hand in surviving the catastrophe, it certainly was not a walk through the First Class Lounge. Shortly after the Titanic struck the iceberg, a telegram was sent to the Olympic relaying that member of the