The Titanic : The Disaster Of The Titanic

The Titanic tragedy was not a very happy event, but I am here to share my opinion on the causes of the sinking of it.

The maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic will always be a day marked in history as a night to remember. Why did the Titanic not make it to her port in New York City from her trek across the Atlantic Ocean? The Titanic was designed to take passengers from England, France and Ireland to North America (Gunner). What happened that night the Titanic sank down to her cold watery grave to the bottom North Atlantic? Was it from the design of the ship or perhaps from poor building materials, human naivety and error; or simply a combination of all of these things? The Titanic’s sinking was a combination of all these things but mostly from human naivety and error with their belief of the ship to be unsinkable.

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.

If all of the lifeboats had been on board more people would have been able to get off of the Titanic before it sank and then they would have been rescued. Ismay also made the decision to lower Titanic’s bulkheads in order to build a grand staircase. Bulkheads are compartments below the deck of a ship that hold water that enters the boat in the event of a crash, allowing the ship to stay afloat longer. If too many bulkheads fill with water the ship sinks (Titanic: How it Really Sank). When Titanic hit the iceberg too many bulkheads filled with water, causing the ship to sink rapidly. If they had been taller each bulkhead would have been able to hold more water and less of them would have overflowed, allowing TItanic to stay afloat long enough to be rescued. Another event that led to the massive loss of life was the return of the Titanic's sister ship, Britannic. In the video Titanic: How it Really Sank, Britannic returns home early for emergency repairs, leaving most of its crew without jobs. The officers from Britannic joined Titanic's crew resulting in all of the Titanic's officers being demoted, except for one who was

The way that light passed through that air could have caused distortion to the look of objects by the horizon. This causing the ice berg kept from being seen until it was thirty seconds away and alter the Titanic’s appearance to a nearby ship, which explains its lack of help when the ship set of distress calls. Maltin also points out other little things that lead to the sinking of the Titanic and the absence of enough life boats. One of the biggest errors made by the crew members was when the operator was listening to telegraphs sent in, looking out for any about the current ice situation ahead of time, he has accidentally skipped right over the one. The ship had just gotten to a place where they could receive telegraphs from the United States, the operator was overwhelmed with them. The message warning the titanic about the iceberg had been written in an informal manner, he thought it be nothing important before listening to it all. As the titanic began to sink only around 700 people were able to fit on the amount of life boats that the Titanic was stocked with. Critics shame the ship a lot for not having enough life boats for everyone aboard, but because the Board of Trade rewarded ships who didn’t need as many life boats and the ship was fully believed to be unsinkable, the designer didn’t see a reason to why they would need that many life

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.

The Titanic’s maiden voyage was disastrous because the beautiful ship sank and many people died. One of the largest flaws of the Titanic’s design is that it was too big and not nimble enough to avoid the iceberg. In addition to the nimbility of the ship, some of the rivets were improperly manufactured and contained a lot of slag in the steel, which makes it more fracture prone.

The Titanic had one trip to do but during that trip a iceberg cut the ship on the side.They think that the iceberg was the main reason that a lot of people died. If you look back that it you can see that there was more to do to a lot of people dieing then the iceberg. During the time of the Titanic.The Titanic had one trip to do but during that trip a iceberg cut the ship on the side.They think that the iceberg was the main reason that a lot of people died. If you look back that it you can see that there was more to do to a lot of people dieing then the iceberg. During the time of the Titanic.

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

Have you ever really thought about the day RMS. Titanic sank? The RMS.Titanic was made to be unsinkable. It sank into the icy waters of the Atlantic after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. It killed 1,517 people during the tragedy.

Most people believe that the sinking of the Titanic was unavoidable and that there was no way for to avoid the iceberg, but this simply isn’t the case. The reasons as to why the Titanic struck the iceberg and sunk as fast as it did is due to the captain ignoring safety protocols, use of cheaper materials to save money and a design flaw with the ship’s watertight compartments. The first error that lead to the Titanic sinking was due to Captain John Smith ignoring safety protocols. The Olympic, the Titanic’s sister ship, had already sailed the same route that the Titanic was taking and Captain Smith wanted to beat the time that the Olympic took to complete the voyage (Boyle, 2012). As a result, he had the ship travelling at full speed even though

“The iceberg's jagged fingers had clawed through the steel hull. Water was gushing into the ship's lower levels. The Titanic will sink" (Lauren Tarshis 5). “It hit an iceberg. The weight from the sea water made one side of the Titanic go up and the other side down.

“To our mind the idea of the Titanic sinking was preposterous. ”- Karl Behr, a passenger on the Titanic. To everyone who had been involved in the construction and designing of the Titanic she was truly unsinkable. The story of the Titanic began with a rivalry, includes her first voyage, and includes some notable people.

When analyzing this disaster the first thing to consider is the engineer’s design of the Titanic. The Titanic was employing many new and innovative designs that were believed to make the Titanic the safest ship ever built at that time. The engineer’s of the vessel made claims that the Titanic was “unsinkable” and that “even in the worst possible accident at sea, the ship should have stayed afloat for two to three days.” One of the features that lead them to this claim was the 16 watertight compartments in the hull of the ship. The way they were designed allowed for up to four compartments to be breached and they ship would still carry

The Titanic was one of the most tragic engineering failures in recorded history. This unsinkable boat was designed to perfection. Even the engineers that built it, claimed it to be one of their best inventions created, which is why people trusted the design.