On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. She was a legend before she even sailed, her creator Thomas Andrews Jr. said that, “She would stay afloat even with all the weight, she can’t sink.” The RMS Titanic was the largest ship to sail . She was heading to New York from Southampton, England. She was believed to be the safest ship to sail, so safe, she only carried twenty lifeboats. Twenty lifeboats is enough for only half of the passengers on board which was about two thousand two hundred people, and the crew. Four days into her journey she struck an iceberg and put a humongous hole in the bottom half of the ship, where the coal runs. The coal powered engines stopped and the ship stopped as well. It started to sink fast. About an hour later water filled the …show more content…
It went down fast. The Titanic broke in two and sunk close to each other part. The survivors were rescued from the lifeboats by the Carpathia. It’s still a mystery why she went down so fast. The creator Thomas Andrews Jr. was a great builder, he built the RMS Titanic, but wasn’t accurate enough, it sank. He was born on February 7, 1873 in Comber, Northern Ireland. He was thirty-nine when he passed away. In 1884, at age 16, dropped out of school to enter Harland and Wolff shipbuilding as an apprentice.
The RMS Titanic was said to be doomed from the start of the design so many said to be a state-of-the-art ship. The sixteen boats, along with four Engelhardt “collapsibles,” could accommodate one thousand-one hundred-seventy-eight people. Titanic when full could carry two thousand-four-hundred-thirty-five passengers, and the crew of approximately nine-hundred brought her capacity to more than three thousand-three hundred people. As a result, even if the lifeboats were loaded to full capacity during an emergency evacuation, there were available seats for only one-third of those on