Titanic Effect

In 1912, the Titanic took off for New York City, but sadly it never reached land. Instead the “unsinkable” ship, crashed and sank. How did the “unsinkable” Titanic crashing and sinking affect the people? Through the horrific and tragic accident of the Titanic, lives were changed, rules were changed, and the way boats and ships were made changed, all because of how the Titanic impacted them. It took five years to plan and build the beautiful, unsinkable ship that would be called the Titanic. Construction started on March 31, 1909, after two gentlemen, J. Bruce Ismay & Lord Pirrie began making plans to build the Titanic in 1907. Construction ended on March 31, 1912. To build the Titanic, Thomas Andrews, the ship’s designer, put a keel

There was another boat named the New York, in the docks by the Titanic and when it took off the large pull snapped the New York’s ropes and caused it to start going in the direction of the Titanic. Captains of both ships thought quickly and missed hitting each other by inches. After leaving Harland, the first stop would be Cherbourg, France. After that they stopped in Queensland, Ireland and then they headed for New York where they were expected to arrive at pier sixty, on April 17,1912. There were over 2,000 passengers, not including the staff. There were some of the most wealthiest and well known people aboard the Titanic. John Jacob Astor and his wife and the part owner of Macy’s department store, Isidor Straus and his wife were also aboard. Thirty couples were said to be on their honeymoons. In the 1900’s people were recognized by their social classes, which were based on the passengers background, wealth and education so on the Titanic the bottom floors of the Titanic were for the manual workers. The next floor was for the third class passengers, which were mostly immigrants and the poor wanting better lives in America. 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. Each member had their own job. Workers did jobs such as sweeping the rooms, they washed the decks, made the beds of the passengers and they cleared and set the tables in all of the restaurants and cafes. The first class had 173 workers, the second class had sixty-seven, and the third class had forty-nine workers. There were forty cooks and assistant cooks