It set sail on the 10th April 1912, and it sunk on the 14th April 1912 – four days after it set sail. It was famous because it was the largest man-made object in the world. The Titanic was carrying 2,223 people, 1,517 people died. The guests were split into three different classes; first, second and third class, and the higher classes had an advantage when it came to boarding lifeboats and being closer to the top of the deck where the lifeboats
Causes: When the titanic sank to the bottom of the ocean; it was 70 years until the wreckage was found by an expedition that was run by a famous oceanographer. Course: The unsinkable ship was out at sea for 3 days and hit an iceberg and 2 ½ hours to sink everyone was not able to be saved. The lifeboats could have held around 1000 people but only 705 people were saved. 1,500 people died that night.
The Titanic, most definitely man’s greatest accomplishment, is made in Belfast, Ireland, where it is then set off into the open ocean, and set for Southampton, England. From there, on April 11, 1912, 2:00 p.m., the Titanic sets sail for New York. All seems well, and it looks for the first time, that man has built the “unsinkable ship.” However, the hopes, lives, ship and all are cut down by an iceberg and now rest at the bottom of the Atlantic. This horrendous fact was shown in both the book and the movie, “A Night to Remember,” along with many other facts and stories.
The iceberg that sank the Titanic was about 50 to 100 feet high and approximately 200 to 400 feet long and the largest part of the iceberg was under the water! The crew of the Titanic was well aware of iceberg activity (1). When the Titanic hit the iceberg, the ship sank in 2 hours and 40 minutes (1). The Titanic received 6 radio calls of icebergs on April 14th
The next floor was the second class passengers who were people like teachers and merchants and the next floor was for the first class, who were the rich. There were about 900 crew members aboard the Titanic. Instead of social classes, the crew members were in groups. There were the ship officer 's, engineering crew, victualling crew, deck crew, and the restaurant crew. There were also the postal workers and the guarantee group.
On the USS Indianapolis, a tragic incident happened on the sinking. Soldiers lost their lives in many ways. The torpedo, drowning, sharks, dehydration, starvation, and drinking saltwater. Only three hundred and seventeen men survived the catastrophe. Today I am writing an essay about Why they died and how they could have prevented it.
Despite being deemed unsinkable, the ship sank on its maiden voyage, even though “It was a luxurious passenger liner, which was considered to be unsinkable, due to its double-bottomed hull with sixteen watertight compartments'' (Kaufman, 2002, p. 898). One of the theories suggests that the Titanic never sank, and someone switched it with another White Star Line ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, to reap insurance money. However, there are a lot of holes in this theory, one of the biggest is that the Titanic’s insurance wasn’t enough to cover the Olympics loss. As J. Kent Layton writes in Conspiracies at Sea, “the switch conspiracy founders—quite literally—on its financial merits alone” (Little, 2018, para. 10).
In addition, there were many stops the Titanic took. The 3 football field length ship, (According to Kids.nationalGeographic.com) caused a burst commotion when it left on its maiden voyage from Sotheasthampon, England, on April 10, 1912. It stopped at Cherbourg, France, and on April 11, it stopped in Queenstown (today known as Cobh), Ireland. Then it set sail for New York, it’s last stop, and had about 2,204 passengers when it headed for New York.
1- Introduction. It was the night between the 14th and the 15th of April 1912. The British ocean liner Titanic, described as " unsinkable " by the builders and the ship-owners, sank due to a collision with an iceberg in the Atlantic ocean , ending with a tragedy that cost the lives of 1517 people ( 2223 in total ) [1]. What went wrong ?
According to “A History In Numbers” by Dave Fowler, only 706 people aboard the Titanic survived the terrible accident, while the other 1,529 were taken down with the ship. Many people believed the iceberg was to blame for the sinking of the ship; however, the problems surrounding the ship began long before the ship set sail. “R.M.S Titanic” by Hanson W. Baldwin revealed that the crew was so confident in the ship’s inability to sink that they did not even pack enough lifeboats in case of an emergency. Furthermore, the captain and crew neglected to practice many safety drills that could have possibly saved many lives. The Titanic was doomed once the captain and crew set foot on the ship because of the arrogant aura they carried which resulted in the confusion and lack of resources that were obtainable during the sinking to many of the passengers including Master Harold Victor Goodwin and his family.
The effects of this disaster were devastating to hundreds of families. In order to prevent more cases like the Titanic, the Harland and Wolff of Belfast company improved and fixed several of the ships that they had made. The changes were based on the failures that engineers overlooked while building the Titanic. In 1948, during the Convention of Safety of Life at Sea, new safety regulations were put into play that both the British and American government agreed upon. The safety regulations would (hopefully) prevent any more cases of accidents similar to the sinking of the Titanic.
According to www.titanicuniverse.com with the deaths in first and second class combined did not equal the deaths in third class. The sinking of Titanic took 536 third class passengers, 130 first class passengers, and 166 second class passengers. The Titanic took 1,347 lives of only men, and out of 899 crew members 685 of them died. Today the Titanic lays 12,000 feet in depth on the ocean floor (www.titanicfacts.net). It took roughly 15 minutes for she can reach the ocean floor, at a speed of descent of 16 kilometers per hour.
The RMS Titanic is one of the most famous ocean liners that has sailed the Atlantic. She was the largest ship of it’s time and was ironically nicknamed the “unsinkable” ship. No one would know the irony of that statement until her first and last voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. On the morning of April 15th, 1912 the Titanic collided with an iceberg. After 2 hours and 40 minutes of her hull filling with water, her stern rose up into the air and broke in two before sinking in the great Atlantic.
The Titanic 's maiden voyage was a disaster because it was supposed to be unsinkable but it sunk on April 14, 1912. Fourteen delivery-trip passengers boarded the Titanic, a few stayed onboard and died in the sinking. In calm seas under a clear sky, the Titanic tried to avoid an iceberg. It stayed on the water for 2 hours and 40 minutes during a chaotic attempt at evacuation. So many people died during this event and it is really sad.
Other reasons that could have caused the Titanic to sink was faults from the people on the ship. The captain was going to fast through a known ice field. “For some, the fact that the Titanic was sailing full speed ahead despite concerns about icebergs was Smith 's biggest misstep.” (NBC News) The Titanic received multiple warnings about icebergs but the last one might not have reached the captain.
