What Are The Sank Of The Titanic

The RMS Titanic is known as the most famous sea disaster in the 20th century. In 1912, the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage. The disaster took more than 1,500 lives. The ship's "unsinkable" reputation made it unbelievable that the ship had actually sank. There were many factors and precautions that should have been enforced at the time to make this ship reach its destination.

The Titanic was built and designed by the Harland and Wolff company. The construction for this massive ship started in Belfast, Ireland in 1909. The Titanic was expected to be 882.5 feet long, 99.5 feet wide, 175 feet high, and displacing 6,600 tons of water. The media portrayed the ship as "unsinkable," yet White Star Line never gave the ship
A second message came in saying there were three large icebergs 19 miles north of the Titanic's path. An hour before the collision, a vessel named the Californian said they were stopped and surrounded by ice. Ismay, the White Star Line's managing director was confident that the ship would be the biggest and most luxurious ship in the world. Captain Smith was confident that the ship would withstand all of the ice floes they were previously warned about. Captain Smith retired to his cabin and went to sleep at 9:20 p.m. At this time the ship was in full speed, 22 knots. At about 11:40 p.m. April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg. The Titanic was getting reports about an iceberg from other ships, but the wireless operators ignored them. A watch guard saw the enormous iceberg right in front of the ship, rang the warning bells, and telephoned the bridge. The Titanic's engines were reversed and the ship turned a sharp left, making the impact just a graze. The lookouts were relieved, but little did they know that the iceberg made a 300 foot gash below the ship's waterline. The captain and Thomas Andrews checked the area and saw that five compartments were already filled. Andrews calculated that they had about 1.5 hours until the ship sinks. An hour later the crew started a rushed, hectic evacuation
The design was flawed greatly. The individual bulkheads were watertight, but water could still spill from one compartment to another. Cunard, White Star Line's competitor, already had safety features to avoid this situation. If White Star Line took a small hint from their competitor, this might have saved the titanic and the lives lost. Another problem was the lifeboats. 20 boats could accommodate 1,178 people. The Titanic carried approximately 3,300 people (2,435 passengers and 900 crew),which means that if filled correctly, there would only be available seats for 1/3 of the people on board. In 1912, Titanic's supply of lifeboats actually went over the British Board of Trade's regulations. There are also many theories on why the Titanic sank. It was always assumed that the ship sank from the iceberg, but many historians think otherwise. These historians think that the ship's steel plates were way too brittle to handle the freezing Atlantic waters causing the rivets to pop, and that the expansion joints failed. Historians believe they failed because of the impact provided by the