Titanic Disaster

The British luxury passenger ship, The Titanic, set sail on April 10, 1912, en route to New York City from Southampton (Lord ch 1). During her maiden voyage, midnight of April 15, 1912, she began to sink (ch 1). The Titanic had a collision with an iceberg that was around 100 feet tall (“Titanic: 40 Fascinating Facts” 3). Regardless to how greatly manufactured the Titanic was, and with beliefs that she was unsinkable, the miscalculation of human error proves that every possible outcome cannot be prevented, disasters can still occur regardless of careful planning.

Some people argue that if you had binoculars you could have seen the iceberg, but there was a shortage on board. The officer who had the key to the binocular stash was fired at the last minute (Olivia B Waxman). There could have been an avoidance of major loss of life if there were enough lifeboats for all of the passengers. There were twenty lifeboats, which could hold only half the ship’s occupants.

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.

Many people called the Titanic unsinkable because the ship was so big, expensive, and took three years of hard work to build, A large number of people believed the Titanic couldn't sink, “My mother said to my father, Isn’t that the ship that they say is unsinkable? And he said, No, this is the ship that is unsinkable” (C.Q.D. THIS IS TITANIC). People who bought a Titanic ticket were most likely very rich, and thought the Titanic was a safe and sturdy ship. The Titanic was called the unsinkable ship, yet it sank on its very first voyage. When the beautiful ship sank, it became a marvelous and intriguing story in this world today. The sinking of the Titanic was not expected, which is why trouble came once passengers knew the boat was going down. There were not enough lifeboats for everyone who boarded the Titanic, and no one was ready for this disaster to occur. The Titanic was jinxed when people said it was an unsinkable ship. Furthermore, when the Titanic was in the midst of sinking it communicated with many other ships, but all were very far away, except for the Californian, and “Unbelievably, the Titanic’s crew could even see the Californian in the distance, but were unable to contact the other ship despite their repeated

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

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 was the largest ship in the world of its time. This ship was filled with people of all ages and social classes. On the night of April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” RMS Titanic struck a monstrous iceberg and as a result, 1,500 people died. James Bruce Ismay is responsible for the passing of the civilians because he left the boat when he wasn’t supposed to, he owned the Titanic, and he was so cheap when designing the ship.

Some examples of why The Titanic's maiden voyage was a disaster was because there were many people on the ship that we're in charge of a lot of responsible things and weren't. A man that was in charge of the ship in the front fell asleep without telling anyone or without switching up with anyone else. Another example of why it was a disaster was because the ship was going too fast and they didn't see it in enough time. Also another example is that the iron rivets we're too weak and they couldn't handle it. Their we're only a few boats to save those people that we're drowning. There weren't many people you could really save on a small boat.

Even though the Titanic was thought of as a technology masterpiece during that time the sinking of the ship had many engineering falls in design as well as safety procedures. There were many ethical decisions made which resulted in the sinking of the Titanic as well as the number of survivors and deceased. The captain of the Titanic ignored many warnings from the crew and other ships about icebergs. If the captain had made the decision for the ship to slow down, its possible this disaster would not have happened. The Titanic could not afford to slow down and it is believed that pressure was put on the captain to continue the speed of the ship even after the warnings. Competition was so fierce during this time of new passenger liners that they

A very unexpected event was the sinking of the “indestructible” Titanic. As the story goes, the Titanic hit a giant iceberg and that was its reason for the sinking. This may be true; however, the Titanic’s operator ignored many warnings given different ships including the Californian and the Baltic. “Lightoller had talked with other officers about the proximity of ice; at least five wireless ice warnings had reached the ship; lookouts had been cautioned to be alert…” Along with the colossal iceberg appearing, the Titanic was also going at too great of a speed to be able to slow down enough by the time they had seen it ahead of them. The wreck commissioner in the British Board of Trade’s investigation said that the Titanic’s speed of twenty-two knots was “excessive under the

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.

In 1912, the RMS Titanic was the largest passenger ship in the world. It was also the most talked about ship. Everyone spoke of the ship as being one of the strongest ships in the world as well as the biggest. The sinking of the RMS Titanic was one of, if not the most tragic accident of an ocean liner in history due to not just its mass death to almost two-thirds of the passengers on board bu also the way it went down. The Titanic was said to be an “unsinkable” ship. Everyone that believed the ship was “unsinkable” was horribly mistaken. The Titanic sank in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912. More than 1,500 people had lost their lives that fateful morning.

On April 14, 1912, however, the Titanic sideswiped a massive iceberg and sank in less than three hours. Damaging nearly 300 feet of the ship's hull, the collision allowed water to flood six of her sixteen major watertight compartments [Gannon, 1995]. She was on her maiden voyage to the United States, carrying more than 2200 passengers and crew, when she foundered. Only 705 of those aboard the Titanic ever reached their destination [Hill, 1996]. After what seemed like a minor collision with an iceberg, the largest ship ever built sank in a fraction of the time estimated for her worst possible accident at sea.

The lookouts were too late. Within 37 seconds after the warning the Titanic hit the 100 foot iceberg. Captain Edward Smith was earlier reported on their being icebergs in the path they were heading from other liners passing through. The Titanic could not stop to turn because they were going 22 ½

The Titanic was coined the unsinkable ship for a reason and the sinking of the Titanic was a perfect storm of events that had to happen for it to sink. The designer of the Titanic, Thomas Andrews, designed the ship he made the hull of the ship have sixteen separate watertight compartments, so that if the shell of the boat was compromised the watertight compartments would not let it be detrimental to the ship, and in the worst case they would just allow the ship to sink at a very slow pace giving the occupants plenty of time to escape safely. A major flaw in the construction of the compartments was that the compartments had no lid to them, so they were no where near waterproof, “essentially they were like a jar without a lid”. When