The Titanic : The Loss Of Life Of The Titanic

An iceberg with a height greater than 60 feet collided with the Titanic at 11:39 PM (Brewster & Coulter, 1998). A 300-foot opening was scraped into the side of the Titanic by an iceberg, opening nearly six of its compartments to water in just over a minute and a half (Eaton & Haas, 1986). Although multiple older systems of ship communication were in use at the time, the Titanic used a new type of media called Morse Code (Sciullo, 2012). The Titanic sent out the distress signal, CQD, shortly after hitting the iceberg and then added the newer signal, SOS, when things started to get desperate (Brewster & Coulter, 1998). At 12:25 AM, many of the passengers chose to stay on the ship because they believed it was unsinkable, as a result result, earlier lifeboats were filled to only half capacity (Deitz, 2012). However, the lifeboats had not started to become filled to capacity until 1:15 in the morning (Brewster & Coulter, 1998). More passengers could have been saved if they had filled all of the lifeboats. Unfortunately, the disaster didn’t end

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.

On April 15, 1912 at 11:40 P.M. the Titanic collided with an iceberg and by 2:20 A.M. it was at the bottom of the ocean; over 1,500 people died. The massive loss of life was a shock to the world. The “unsinkable” ship had sunk. Despite the Titanic’s claims about being “unsinkable” and completely safe, many avoidable things led to the immense number of fatalities, such as the shortage of lifeboats, lowered bulkheads, and the lack of binoculars. Bruce Ismay, the designer of the Titanic and director of Whitestar line, often chose the comfort of his passengers over their safety. While Ismay was designing the Titanic he thought that the deck was too cluttered so he decided to keep only a third of the lifeboats needed to save all of the passengers

During the time that the ship was to be built, The White Line Company was fighting for supremacy over another shipping firm, Cunard. The British firm had two top ranking ships in its ranks and The White Line Company wanted to fight this holding and become the best of the best. In their fight to achieve this, J. Bruce Ismay who was the chief executive of White Star, decided to commission 3 new ships to be built that were bigger and more luxurious that any ship built ever before. The Titanic, the second of the ships to be build took two years to complete from the spring 1909 to the spring of 1911. In the following year, the ship was designed interiorly to help make it a luxury ship. In making the ship though, several mistakes were made that lead to the severity of the disaster. For one, the ships haul had water tight chambers that while were watertight, would allow water to move from one compartment to another. The people involved thought that because of the watertight chambers the ship was unsinkable when in fact these chambers did nothing to stop the ship from sinking. In relation to everyone thinking the ship unsinkable, White Star did not put enough safety boats on the vesicle. They thought the ship to be unsinkable so why put enough safety boats to fit everyone (Titanic,

Cole 1 ~Intro~ Did you know that the fourth smokestack on the Titanic was fake, and that is was made just for looks? Thomas Andrews, the Titanic’s architect, thought instead of having three smokestacks that having four would raise public interest. But when the Titanic was sinking, the fake smokestack fell on people and instantly killed them. The Titanic was made for luxury and had succeeded but all of the effort was wasted when all of the items became dead weight at the bottom of the sea. All the work and effort was lost when the Titanic struck the iceberg.

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.

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

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

Currently it’s 2018, 106 years since the disaster in 1912. A little while ago, we finished the unit on the Titanic and most of my questions were answered. Like exactly how many people were able to survive the tragedy or why did only a few lifeboats go back to find survivors? “706 survivors” and “the people onboard didn’t want to die” were the responses I got.

Many people died in the Titanic all because of arrogance; one which was Mr. Johan Henrik Johannesson Kvillner. The Titanic was thought to be,”unsinkable” to the public. People that were on the ship ranged from maids to ship workers to millionaires. At that time the class system put them where they were on the ship. Upper class had the upper levels of the ship, middle class had the middle rooms and floors of the ship, and lower class had the lowest floors on the ship.

It was me, my mom, my dad, my two brothers and three sisters and we were excited to board the Titanic. My mom’s name is Sara and my dad's name is Richard, my two brothers are twins and their names are Mike and Ike, and my three sisters names are Layla, Tracy, and Stephanie. We were traveling to New York on April 10. The Titanic was so beautiful and big it had some many rooms for everybody we even got our own rooms, but me and my sisters and brothers decided to share a room and my mom and dad shared a room. The Titanic had an elegant foyer stood below the wrought-iron and glass dome over the first glass staircase. They had a gymnasium and that's where they work out and a guy named

About 1,500 passengers on the maiden voyage of the Titanic was sent to a watery grave when the luxurious ocean liner sank in 1912.

On April 14, 1912 lookout Frederick Fleet spotted a giant iceberg straight ahead of the Titanic. As a lookout for the ship, Fleet and the other lookouts had to rely on only their eyes to spot obstacles such as icebergs. Once Fleet saw the iceberg there was only 37 seconds before the imminent sinking of the Titanic. The ship’s first officer, Murdoch, ordered the ship to turn, but the ship was way too big to turn in the amount of time that they had. What most people don't know is that there was actually binoculars aboard the Titanic, and the disaster could have been avoided if they were used. The binoculars were locked in a locker in the crows nest, but the person who had the key, David Blair, was removed from the crew, and didn't give the key to his replacement.