The Titanic The sinking of the Titanic was the most devastating tragedy of the 20th century. The Titanic was a dream ship for many people. To the passengers on that ship, it was just a normal day. But then the unthinkable happened to the unsinkable ship. The sinking of the Titanic was a very catastrophic event because of the amount of fatalities caused by manufacturing flaws and the events leading up to the crash. There were multiple things that were wrong with the Titanic. The sinking of the massive boat was actually very ironic because of the nickname “The Unsinkable Ship”. The Titanic had things that were not needed such as the four smoke stacks on top of the ship. Eszlinger.com states, “Although there were 4 funnels (smokestacks), only …show more content…
On board there were only lifeboats for 1,178 but there was 2,200 people total on the boat. Instead of a 4th smokestack they could have used that money for more lifeboats. Realizing that all the creators of the Titanic just wanted money is not difficult to understand. The manufactures were so confident in their work that they called it the “Unsinkable” ship. Frederick Fleet, a lookout aboard the Titanic testified that the crew had asked for binoculars but were denied. In the early 1900’s it was not very common for lookouts to have binoculars, but because of the ships large size the lookouts decided it would be best to have them. Fleet later committed suicide at the age of 77. One of the most obvious manufacturing flaws was the actual steel used to build the large ship. Bob McDonald of the Quirks & Quarks webpage claims: “The company was …show more content…
"No one thing sent the Titanic to the bottom of the North Atlantic," Richard Corfield writes in a Physics World retrospective on the disaster. "Rather, the ship was ensnared by a perfect storm of circumstances that conspired her to her doom. Such a chain is familiar to those who study disasters — it is called an 'event cascade.'” On Sunday April 14th, Captain Edward John Smith unexpectedly canceled the lifeboat drill. To this day no one knows why the drill was dismissed. Around the time of the crash,11:40pm, the massive ship was cruising at 22 knots (25.3171 miles per hour). Frederick Fleet, the first to see the large ice mountain, warned the captain about the iceberg. When the warning bell was sounded, there was only 37 seconds to avoid the crash. At about 25 miles per hour, the iceberg scraped the starboard side of the ship. The iceberg tore a hole into the hull between 220 to 245 feet long. The water immediately rushed in at 7 tons per