Iceberg

Iceberg destroys Titanic, warnings ignored. On April 15, 1912 at approximately 2:20am, the RMS Titanic sank into the ocean after crashing into a towering iceberg, 640km south of Newfoundland, Canada. More than 1500 people have died, tearing apart relationships and families. The whereabouts of the ship is still unknown and many fear the worst. The captain and crew has been blamed for this incident and is now facing public scrutiny. The Titanic was on her maiden voyage from Britain to America when

The tip of the iceberg. Thats what brought down the greatest ship of its day. It’s the reason 1,500 people died in one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the world. The Titanic. When the Titanic was built it was the largest and most luxurious passenger liner at the time. It was also considered to be completely unsinkable. The hull weighed a total of 25,000 tonnes and used 825 tonnes of coal per day. The Titanic had three bronze propellors that weighed 92 tonnes. So it was obviously a very heavy

is known for his unique style and theories of writing, especially the iceberg theory. In the Death of the Afternoon, Hemingway says that “The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.” (92) Simple words, vivid images, rich emotions and deep thoughts are the four basic elements of the iceberg theory. Talk about how these stories illustrate four elements of theory

The Tragedy of the Titanic By Karson Lani On that night April 14: 11:40 p.m. The lookouts spot an iceberg with their bare eyes straight ahead and they veered to the left to hope to miss the iceberg. Little did the passengers know that they hit the iceberg but up front there was a loud SKREECH! Down in the coal bunker the man was right there when the side of the boat busted open and after a while five compartments had filled but the ship could only float with four compartments filled that meant that

all, and sailed straight into the iceberg, it would have sliced through rather than being hit

When the Titanic hit the iceberg, the iron rivets and steel failed because of fractures. Failure in structural materials caused brittle fracture due to low temperature and extreme impact loading.The night of the collision, water temperature was below freezing, the ship travelled normal speed it was these fast speed that made the watertight compartment to bust open, the hull steel had high levels of sulphur. Too much sulphur in steel mixed with cold it becomes brittle.instead of the steel deforming

dinner for some first class people. If he didn’t plan it that night he could’ve stopped the Titanic from sinking. But also he was not concerned about the warnings they got about the icebergs. Either he thought it would blow over as they go and there wouldn’t be any icebergs in their way or he heard about the icebergs himself. The other people I thought did it were Jack Phillips and Harold Bride they were the ones who

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

were lost on April 15th, 1912, from many preventable mistakes. Titanic was supposed to be an amazingly built ship that was “unsinkable”, but what they didn’t know was that Titanic was unsinkable in the case of it colliding with other ships, not an iceberg. If the ships construction was a little bit more put together, the ice patrol had better communication, and the lifeboats would have come back, Titanic wouldn’t lay 12,500 feet in the twenty-eight degrees fahrenheit water below the coast of Newfoundland

of the Titanic By Megann Fleming The Titanic‘s construction began on March 31, 1909. On May 31, 1911, the ginormous ship has sailed. As on the night of April 14, 11:40 PM, lookouts spotted a large iceberg dead ahead. As the ship and the iceberg move towards each other, BOOM! The Titanic and the iceberg crashed like two middle schoolers in a hallway bumping into each other. A big total of 1,517 men, women, and children died along with the Titanic. Most killed themselves after the Titanic’s sinkage