The commander chosen for this voyage was Edward John Smith, this will be his last passage before he resigns, unknowingly that his last day would be April 14, 1912 (. According to an article written by Goss (2016), a British-owned White Star Line had decided to build the Titanic, this took place in Ireland between the years 1902-1912. A documentary about how the Titanic: how It Really Sank (2016) pointed out, that in March 1912 the sister ship to Titanic, the Olympic has a crisis repair, making the last stages to the Titanic arrive at a stop. Its first trip is pushed back a month, mid April. During this time in the year is the point at which the most iceberg show up in delivery paths in the North Atlantic Ocean. Because of the crisis repairs…
On April 15, 1912, 1500 people died on board the RMS Titanic. Families were lost at sea, struggling to survive in the dark, murky waters of the Trans-Atlantic Ocean. However, one question remains… Who or what is responsible for the sinking of the ‘unsinkable ship’? The Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912 carrying 2200 passengers and 1300 crew. She hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912 at 11:45 p.m. At first the captain thought that the ship had merely scraped the iceberg. The damage was much worse... The iceberg scraped the hull so bad the rivets used to hold the ship together popped out. The gash in the hull let water come into the ship at 10 tons per second! Of the 2200 passengers, she carried on board, only 700 survived. Some people say that Thomas Andrews (the head designer of the Titanic) was responsible for the tragedy due to faulty ship design. Others say that J. Bruce Ismay is responsible for encouraging faulty ship design. Ismay is to blame because he should have told Thomas Andrews to make the supposed ‘water tight’ bulkheads higher. Ismay also should have added more lifeboats to save everyone on board in case of disaster. Out of all the culprits, Ismay is the most responsible because he had the final say in how the ship was made.…
According to 100 Unsinkable Facts about the Titanic, William Edward Minahan was a doctor from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Before he sailed on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, he had his fortune read. The fortune teller told him he would die aboard the ship, but he did not listen, and went on the voyage. She was right, and he died in the tragic accident (1). The Titanic is one of the most well known disasters in history. The RMS Titanic was the most luxurious ship of its time. It was said to be unsinkable, which created false hope for the passengers when disaster struck. The survivors’ haunting stories are still told today. Innovative technologies were used to study why the Titanic sank. If Clive Palmer makes a second Titanic, it will plunge into…
“Iceberg! Right ahead!” An officer heard, but decided to ignore it. The ship just struck an iceberg. In ten seconds, the iceberg had ripped a three-hundred foot slash into the bottom of the great, unsinkable Titanic. Everyone became aware of this and starts rushing towards the lifeboats. First, women and children, then the rich people, lastly, if you were able to sneak up on a boat, then you’ll live.…
I read the book “Voyage On The Great Titanic” The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, by Ellen Emerson White.…
One reason that the Titanic sunk is because it ran up on an iceberg in the middle of the night. The captain did not have time to slow down. But, they were already going way too fast. Also, the crew members tried to tell the captain about the iceberg but the captain ignored them and told them to “shut up”. However, out of the many women that died on the ship, Miss Emily Badman, 18 years old, survived the Titanic.…
Everyone felt the cold breeze on their face, their eyelashes; frozen. Their hair is iced in place and everyone is surrounded by freezing cold water. No one can feel their body, it has only been ten minutes but people around Rose are already dying. The movie, Titanic, is based on historical stories 50 years prior. White Star Line, the contractors for the creation of the Titanic, and many others, believed that the ship was unsinkable. Therefore, no one would get on the lifeboats. Although, today's forensic science proves many flaws that the ship held. The Titanic is the most influential American film because it illustrates a profound look into history, uses engineering to recreate the historical event, and demonstrates how to live life.…
Couple hours later (11:40 p.m.) Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg ahead. The iceberg struck the Titanic on the starboard (right) side of her bow. 14 feet of water were poured in and risen in the front prat of the ship. Everyone started getting nervous and scared mainly because they thought they were all going to die.…
compartment into another. When the iceberg ripped a hole in the side of the ship, the compartments began to fill with water. As five of the compartments filled with water, enough air was pushed out of the ship to lower the front end (the bow) deep into the sea. Water continued to pour over the top of the compartments that where filled with water into those that were still full of air. 5 compartments were filled. The more the Titanic sank, the more water poured into the air- filled compartments and the heavier the vessel became. Eventually, air was forced out of the hull so that the whole ship became heavier than the water around it and consequently the Titanic sank. This is one of the main reasons why the titanic sank, (oblivious to the fact that it crashed into an iceberg.) Although crashing against the iceberg made a gash in the ship, the speed of the ship was too fast to be traveling in dangerous waters. The ship was traveling at about 21 knots. According to http://www.historyonthenet.com/Titanic/blame.htm…
The most powerful aspect of the film The Titanic is not the love story. It is not the grand staircase, or the luxurious dining room. It is not the interaction between characters, or the extravagant “Heart of the Ocean.” The most powerful aspect of The Titanic is that it actually happened. At the end of the film, there were 1,502 dead bodies sinking and in the freezing salt water of the Atlantic. No “story-truth,” no matter how elaborate, could create a greater tragedy than a “happening-truth.” Why not? Since “story-truths” are not as true as “happening-truths.”…
As soon as the engine stopped working it was clear that the Titanic was not able to work again. Numbers may vary on the amount of passengers and workers on the Titanic because the workers never truly made a list of the names of the passengers (Landou). The control workers could have been there when Fredrick Fleet called them to warn about the iceberg. The passengers and workers on the lifeboats didn’t fill them up as much as they could have. Many valuables were taken down with the Titanic on the morning it crashed (“Unsinkable”). The control room workers could have been on guard or at least have another person working the controls. If the Titanic wouldn’t have sunk, we would build ships the same and we wouldn’t over think about the possibilities, we would just put as much equipment as needed as we do…
April 14th the look out saw the giant iceberg (Imagine) and phoned the captain. The engines got reversed and the ship started to turn the iceberg just barely hit the Titanic leaving a 300 foot gash on the side of the boat, flooding six compartments. In a little over two hours, the Titanic filled with water. The Titanic's horrifying last moments, with its stern soaring high into the air before it cracked in two and disappeared, into the depth of the ocean, a popular memory. "The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else.…
Why would they just run into an iceberg would be a good idea even if the ship was unsinkable it still could’ve gotten damage. If they tought how to eject people out of the Titanic more people could’ve survive and it wouldn’t have been as chaotic. A reason why the Titanic’s voyage was a disaster was because everyone on that ship thought that it was unsinkable. The voyage was a…
Questionable events arose after the sinking because the only evidence about that night was the stories told by the few survivors. It was known that on April 10th 1912, the Titanic set sail on her first voyage from Southampton. On April 14th at 11:40 p.m. the ship struck an iceberg on her starboard side of the bow. On April 15th at 2:20 a.m., the Titanic 's broken off stern sank into the sea (Amy 2). For many people, it was hard to believe that the largest ship ever built had sunk on its maiden voyage. Since it was thought that Titanic could stay afloat with even the hardest of impacts it was hard to imagine that the Titanic went down just because of an iceberg that scratched her bow. Therefore, the world was shocked the morning of April 15th when news broke out that Titanic had gone down in less than three hours. A recently uncovered family secret has revealed new information as to why the Titanic sank so rapidly. Today, the Titanic lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in two pieces and a big debris field surrounding two square miles. The shipwreck site is one of the deepest places on Earth to be explored and has brought us new knowledge about the tragic events of April 15thas well as biological processes currently occurring…
Many people died, because there wasn't enough lifeboats. Titanic only had twenty lifeboats. That is not enough for over 2,000 people. Each lifeboat could only hold 40 to 60 people. The Titanic…