Titanic Essay Research Paper When people hear

Titanic Essay, Research Paper

When people hear the name Titanic many

vivid and emotional images come to mind. Visions of the very last

yet frantic final moments titanic spent afloat before sinking to its watery

grave miles below the surface. No one however pictures everything

that had happened before and after the great liner sank, or the passengers

and crew who were doomed to be aboard the massive ship. Many factors made

what was titanic, her crew the passengers and the inevitable crash.

The story of titanic started in Belfast,

Ireland where hundreds of hard working men spent countless hours building

what was at 46,328 gross tonnage the largest moving object at the time.

The R.M.S. Titanic was owned by American tycoon J.P. Morgan, but was being

operated on the British owned White Star line. The ship was reported

to have cost some where between $7,500,000 – $10,000,000. It was

to be Bruce Ismay.s crowning achievement and at 882 ½ feet long

and 100 feet high it truly was. Mr. Thomas Andrews the ship designer

gave her a revolutionary layout, and it appears that titanic was built

to accommodate up to 64 lifeboats yet had only 16 aboard and 4 collapsible

lifeboats were added last minute giving a life boat capacity of only 1,176.

Now we come to the passengers and crew

who were aboard the ill-fated liner. The captain was Edward James

Smith a very reputable and respected captain. The maiden voyage was

to be Captain Smith.s last and he has even been quoted as saying .nothing

exciting ever happens on my trips.. As Titanic was the ship of al ships

her passengers were the whose who of the world. Aboard were American

millionaire John Jacob Astor and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Isador Strauss,

Mr. Benjamin Guggenheim and his mistress, the .unsinkable. Molly Brown

and the Countess of Rothes.

As it seems the massive liner was doomed

to infamy from the very beginning. At on Wednesday April 10, 1912

the R.M.S. Titanic started to depart from Southampton on its way to New

York City. Just as titanic left port a dangerous suction started and pulled

another ship the New York into a crash course with the immense ship and

it wasn.t until the last possible minute that a huge surge of water pushed

the New York out of harms way. Yet just as it seemed that disaster

was averted another major problem started. In coal bunker # 5 spontaneous

combustion caused a very destructive fire that took 3 days to extinguish.

Mr. Andrews was sent to examine the damages and reported that the fire

compromised the steel and could have possible damaged the airtight compartments.

The next topic needed to cover is the controversial events leading up to

and including the crash on April 14, 1912. The day started out with

clear weather and with the boat at a full 22 ½ knots what seemed

to be smooth sailing, but nothing could have prepared them for what would

happen later that night. That night the temperature suddenly dropped

down t a chilling 31 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill of only 0 degrees

Fahrenheit in the crow.s nest. Titanic was travelling too fast in condition

so dangerous that other ships had stopped for the night. At 10:00

p.m. Frederick Fleet took his place as look out in the crow.s nest, with

only one problem his binoculars had been missing since leaving Southampton

4 days earlier. At 11:40 p.m. that night everything was calm including

the usually turbulent ocean, but the calm was suddenly shattered by what

is now one of the most famous quotes ever .Iceberg right ahead..

Almost immediately Officer Murdoch ordered the ship to full reverse and

hard to port which basically means to turn left. One major design

flaw came into play here, the rudders were too small so the ship did not

turn in time and so the ship hit the iceberg on her starboard side leaving

a tiny trail of small punctures in the hull. These small breaks were

all that was needed to seal the fate of titanic and her passengers for

now over 400 tons of water was pouring in every minute. As soon as

the reality of everything set in Mr. Andrews was sent to inspect that damage

caused by the iceberg, the results were almost unbelievable. The

iceberg caused 5 of the 16 airtight compartments to fill with water, one

more that ever imagined in any accident. Mr. Andrews conclusion was

that the ship everyone said, .G-D himself could not sink. was going to

be at the bottom of the ocean in a matter of hours. With this tragic

news the crew was instructed to start evacuating the boat women and children

first and so a little past mid-night the 1st class was being awaken to

head towards the lifeboats. At 12:10 a.m. Captain Smith ordered the

Marconi operators to send out a distress call that the ship was sinking

by the head. One of the first ships to respond was the German Ship

the Frankfort,

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