"Come see the unsinkable ship!” the townspeople cried out. They were, of course, talking about the White Star Line’s newest vessel, the Titanic. At eight hundred eighty-three feet long and ninety-two feet wide, the Titanic’s first voyage was packed full, starboard to port, with two thousand, two hundred, twenty-eight people on board. There were three hundred thirty-seven people in first class, two hundred eighty-five in second class, seven hundred twenty-one people in third class, and eight hundred eighty-five crew members. Even without the people, the Titanic weighed 46,328 tons. The vessel was one hundred and four feet in height and had twenty lifeboats. The architect, Thomas Andrews, was aboard the ship during its first and last catastrophic trans-Atlantic voyage. On April 10th, 1912, the Titanic left London, England at around noon. It then stops in Cherbourg, France at approximately 7:00 PM to load up passengers and extra supplies. Next, the Titanic leaves for Queenstown, Ireland, and arrives at 12:30 PM April 11th to pick up even more passengers. After everyone and everything was on the ship, they leave the Queenstown port at about 2:00 PM to start the journey to New York, in the United States. On the first day at sea, survivors …show more content…
The Crow’s Nest is warned to watch for ice, but they are not given binoculars.Then, at around 9:20 PM on April 14, 1912, Captain Smith goes to his cabin for the night. Another message from the Mesaba warns of icebergs directly in the Titanic’s path. The Titanic is traveling at 22.5 knots, with clear skies and no moon. Next, Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee are put on lookout duty in the Crow’s Nest. One last message is sent from the Californian. They are surrounded by ice and had to come to a stop. The wireless operator at the Titanic’s bridge replies with: “Shut up. Shut up. You’re jamming my signal. I’m busy. I’m working Cape
At the time, the ship was the biggest existence of the ship and the largest movable object ever built. Owned by the White Star Line, one of a number of shipping companies who transported people across the Atlantic, was designed to be the flagship of their fleet. Captained by Edward J. Smith, the Titanic was believed to be completely unsinkable. On April 10th, 1912, the Titanic set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic destined to New York. Aboard were 2,200 passengers and
And still does happen because it is now a law. It is called the captains law and the law is that the captain must be the last person alive on the ship before it sinks. Captain of the ship, Edward Smith, sank with the titanic. It has been said that the captains law is if the ship is sinking then the captain of the ship must save everyone on the ship or die trying. That is exactly what captain Edward Smith did on the titanic. He is very known for staying with the ship while it sank. His actions inspired me to be brave and
The journey came to a halt when the ship hit an iceberg and began to sink.
Over fifteen thousand years ago an ordinary mass of ice emerged from nature and commenced its destiny of becoming the world's most famous iceberg (www.titanicuniverse.com). This notorious mass of ice came to existence thousands of years ago as a lone fragment of snow which eventually accumulated for a multitude of ages. While the flurries continuously descended along the shores of Greenland, the snowflakes were simultaneously being condensed into one of the most critical abominations in recorded history (www.titanic-titanic.com). Once the timing of the intemperate environment had reached the year of 1909, the glacier was then fractured and allowed for the ice’s secession from its customary location and the advancement towards a tremendous
On April 2,1912 the RMS Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage from Belfast, Ireland to Southampton. The Titanic was 4 days into its exploration when the collision of the iceberg occurred. As the Titanic set sail on it’s maiden voyage, some interior work still needed to be completed. Some areas of the ship had no heating while the others areas where to hot. A team of about 9 harland & wolff employees, including the ship's designer, Thomas Andrews, sailed as members of a guarantee group, to make sure any problems with the ship were attended to. They as well perished in the sinking of the
Building the Titanic took around 26 months to finish. The building began March 11, 1909 and by May 11, 1911 the Titanic was launched in the Victoria Channel. A total of 246 injuries and two deaths resulted from the building of the Titanic. The amount of injuries and deaths were low around that time. The massive ship was built to beat their rival Cunard. Harland and Wollf were the shipbuilders, where they chose Thomas Andrews as the architect of the Titanic. He decided to design the ship to be unsinkable by having sixteen different water compartments separated by watertight bulkheads, twenty-nine boilers to power the ship, and had two steam engines. The ship was thought to stay afloat even if four compartments were ruptured. April 10, 1912 the forty-five story high ship set sail. Luxury was the main feature of the Titanic
The titanic was a massive tragedy and was also huge, but how would it compare to modern ships? Today I will be writing an essay on the similarities and differences between the two biggest ships of their time. To be clear, I will use the oasis of the seas as a reference point.
The Titanic had one trip to do but during that trip a iceberg cut the ship on the side.
The RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Titanic was the middle child in a series of three ships: the Olympic, the Titanic, and the Britannic. These unprecedentedly large ships were built in Belfast, Ireland, in the shipyard of Harold and Wolff for the White Star Line company. The Titanic and her sister ships were built 269.1 meters long, 28.2 meters wide, 53 meters from the keel to the top of the funnels, and weighing in at a whopping 46,000 tons (Felkins, Leighly Jr., Jankovic, 1998). On April 2, 1912, The Titanic finally sets sail to Southampton, England, where it was to start its maiden voyage to New York. Finally, on April 12, 1912, Titanic commenced its infamous voyage. Just four days into the journey, tragedy had struck. Despite receiving multiple warnings of dangerous ice sections and icebergs throughout the day, the Titanic continues on its course through the frigid Atlantic waters without diversion. The captain of the ship, Smith, goes to bed around 9:20. However, at 11:40 on April the 12th, the Titanic strikes the iceberg on
Harold Bride, a Titanic Survivor, was born January 11, 1890. He was a junior wireless operator onboard the Titanic and was working alongside Jack Phillips, senior wireless operator, when the Titanic struck the iceberg. Both were working on sending distress messages to other ships for help. Harold Bride was born in Nunhead, London England. The youngest of five children, Harold started learning Morse code and wireless telegraph in 1910 through the Marconi Company. In 1911, he finished his training in telegraph operator. This was the new technology in that era. His first job as a wireless operator was onboard the SS Haverford. He worked on four other ships after that before getting a job on the Titanic. Bride joined the Titanic in 1912 as a junior wireless operator. During the Titanic disaster, Harold was able to survive the sinking of the ship and the freezing cold water of the Atlantic. Jack Phillips did not survive. The Carpathia was the closest ship to the Titanic. Bride and other survivors got onboard the Carpathia. Onboard
On the morning of April 15th, 1912, 1,503 people died. Amongst these 1,503 people was a 31-year-old Swedish man by the name of Johan Henrik Johannesson Kvillner. This man, like many others, died in one of the most well-known tragedies in the history of mankind: the shocking sinking of the great R.M.S. Titanic, a ship deemed “unsinkable”. The Titanic struck an iceberg after being warned of an ice field in the direction that they were travelling. Kvillner went down with the ship, assumingly like a gentleman, after being denied access to one of the lifeboats
April 14,1912 it was a day that the world will never forget. The Titanic was the biggest luxury liner of it’s time. From the rich to the poor it was the ship that would take them all to America. Until the tragic night of April 14,1912 when Titanic hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the ocean. I will give the history of the Titanic,details about that tragic night and where Titanic is now.
gone because the ship could only travel 14.5 knots and was far away, long after the Titanic was
After the completion of the Titanic, it was sent from Belfast to Southampton, England for its maiden voyage across the Atlantic. It set sail on April 10, 1912, with 2223 passengers (RMST) and 907 crew members (TT). Captain Edward J. Smith was the first and last man to steer the Titanic. He set the speed to 22 knots and the Titanic began her pivotal journey (AGS). There were many people from many different backgrounds who made that fateful voyage; among those people were thirteen couples had been on board for their honeymoon. There was also countless others who had traveled on the Titanic’s first journey, some of them survived the sinking while others weren’t that lucky. The story of how the Titanic began, and her first voyage will forever remain a large part of the history of transatlantic voyages.
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.