Titanic : Behind The Story

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 Titanic was a ship that sunk during its maiden voyage in 1912. This big ship was on it’s way to New York when it struck an iceberg. It was believed to be “unsinkable” but that night it met it’s fate and sunk killing many passengers. As the story goes they say it’s the icebergs fault for the sinking of the ship. When in reality, the White Star Line was truly at fault for the sinking of the Titanic. They are responsible for this tragedy because they went full speed after ignoring six ice warnings. Not only that but they should've thought of the consequences when they decided to take off lifeboats for more room for luxury items. Then they weren’t prepared and never had any drills or safety procedures for if the ship were to sink.

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

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 Titanic, a British luxury liner that claimed to be unsinkable, sank after colliding with an iceberg on April, 14 1912. The name titanic was acquired from greek mythology, it means gigantic.The titanic was fabricated in belfast ireland, in the united kingdom.

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.

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.

When the Titanic was finally launched on May 31, 1911. Bruce Ismay was the chairman of the White Star Line company and Thomas Andrews was the one who designed the Titanic. It started its construction at Harland and Wolff shipyard on May 31, 1909. People thought that the ship was known as “unsinkable” because they believed that they used the most advanced technology of its time in order to make this most magnificent ship built of its time. The company did not claim that the Titanic is “unsinkable”, people just claimed that the ship is unsinkable but it shocked people around the world when the “unsinkable” ship actually sank with hundreds of innocent passengers. However, It was also thought to be the largest man

The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most famous maritime tragedies in the modern world. The Titanic sunk on April 15, 1912, while making her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. Even though the Titanic was deemed unsinkable by her builder, White Star line, she sank after striking an iceberg. This picture (NewYorkTimes.com) emphasizes the tragedy of the 1500 people that lost their life. While the loss of life was incredible, it could of have been prevented. There were only 20 lifeboats aboard the Titanic and this amount was not ample for the nearly 2,200 passengers aboard the ship. Another contributing factor to the loss of life was the lack of training on the operation of the life boats. (History1900s.about.com). Life boats were

People were shocked at the news of the "unsinkable" Titanic sinking and this disbelief was due to the 19th Century’s reliance on science and industry to solve problems. When people set eyes on the most luxurious and biggest ship ever, they easily presumed it unsinkable. The Titanic, along with it’s size, had watertight

The Titanic started its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912 nevertheless sadly sunk four days later. There were several events that could have saved the Titanic from sinking. One of the reasons could be that the operator wasn’t paying attention to any of the warnings he had received from another ship named “Californian” in response to their warnings busy and annoyed with all the calls about the iceberg he responded back with “shut up! shut up!” Another is maybe that captain smith wasn’t paying attention to the icebergs ahead. Or it could be that the Titanic was going 26 mph heading straight towards the icebergs. It could have been any of those reasons or perhaps it could have been that the hull wasn’t hard enough. All of these reasons could have helped with the sinking of the Titanic.

The, Titanic was one of the most high-powered, largest ships of its time. The Titanic could go as fast as 20 knots or more. Which can be a big problem, being such a big as it was. The Titanic was on its way, not knowing what will come in its path. Having something so deeply built and putting so much effort and trust in something, does not always go the right way you want it to go

The story of the White Star liner Titanic, the largest ship the world had ever known, was a tragic event in history. Not only was the Titanic claimed to be the biggest ship, but also the safest. If these two things are accurate, how is it possible that the Titanic actually sank and only 706 of the original 2,201 people survived. The sinking of the Titanic along with the stories of the passengers and if and why they survived are only a few examples of the many questions to be discussed.

April 14, 1912, proved to be a horrendous night where a total of 1,503 men, women, and children met their fate during the last hours of the Titanic. Less than a few hours the largest ocean liner that was ever built would be at the bottom of the ocean. It’s never to be seen again until 73 years later when the wreckage was finally discovered. The people who died perished in the deep ocean water, never to be seen, but they would be a part of the history that would live on forever in our hearts. Unaware of this would ever happen is the passengers on board the Titanic. Miss Ruth Elizabeth Becker, 12, boarded the Titanic at Southampton, England was one of them. Ruth was traveling with her mother Nellie, brother Richard, and sister Marion from

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.