The Titanic Disaster
By Rhia
Contents
Construction
Facilities Onboard
Maiden Voyage
Ice - Burg Collision
The Sinking
Survivors
Construction
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The story of the Titanic and her
sisters began when one evening
in 1907. A couple called Mrs and
Mr. J Bruce Ismay went out for
dinner at the home of Lord &
Lady Pirrie in London.
The sketches draw the night of
the dinner were taken back to
Harland & Wolff by Lord Pirrie.
The layout of the keel is the first
stage of the construction of a
ship. The keel is a key structure,
like the backbone of a human
body.
In the end it cost $7.5million
altogether.
On which everything else
depends on. It is m bade in
sections, laid on blocks on a
sloping slipway.
After the keel has been laid,
construction begins on the
frame. The frame is similar to the
ribs on a human body and it form
the basic shape of the hull
Curved frames are connected to
the hull while steel beams help it
to hold the frames together also it
adds strength to the structure
Facilities Onboard
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2 parlour suites each with a 50
foot private promenade and 7
other first class staterooms and
suites.
It had a gymnasium with a rowing
machine and a stationary bicycle
and a electric Horse ! And quite a
lot more !
Titanic has a heated swimming
pool and it’s the first built into a
vessel.
Also a great squash court on
deck F,2 barber shops with
automated shampooing and
conditioning open to all the
classes.
First and second class smoking
areas for men only and reading
and writing areas for women
only.
First and second class libraries.
10,488 square foot first class
dining saloons and a maximum
of passengers in the room which
is 554.
Maiden Voyage
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Titanic started her Maiden
voyage in Southampton and
was travelling to New York
on the10th of April 1912 and
captain Edward J Smith was
in command.
As Titanic left her berth, her
wake caused the liner “SS
New York” which was docked
quite near by, to break her
moorings, whereupon she
was drawn dangerously
close (about four feet) to
Titanic before a tugboat
towed New York away.
It delayed the Titanic’s
departure for over half an
hour.
After stopping at Cherbourg,
France, Queenstown, Ireland
the Titanic set off to New
York with 2,240 passengers
aboard.
Iceberg Collision
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The Titanic was sailing on the calm
ocean and had got told some Ice-berg
warnings preceding few days, had
drawn up a new course which took the
ship slightly further southward. That
Sunday at 13:45 a message from the
steamer America warned that large
icebergs were in the ahead of the
Titanic’s path.
Jack Phillips and Harold Bride, the
Marconi wireless radio workers. Later
that evening another report of Ice-berg
but this time it was from Mesba and
that’s also failed to reach the Bridge.
The told some of the warnings to shut
up and ignored everyone's warnings.
Later that evening at 12:30, while
sailing at 400 miles ( 640km) south of
the Grand Banks of Newfoundland
looks out and spotted a large Ice-berg
directly ahead of the ship and Fleet
sounded the bell 3 times and
telephoned the bridge exclaiming that
a large Ice-berg is straight ahead and
they tried to turn the boat around but
unluckily it still scraped the side of the
ship.
This buckled the hull in a few places
popping the rivets water line over a
length of 299 ft.
The Sinking
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As sea water filled the forward
compartments, the water tight doors
shut trapping nearly all of the workers
in.
However, while the ship could barely
stay afloat with the foremost four
compartments flooded, the foremost
six were filling with water. The water
filled compartments weighed down the
ships bow and that allowed much more
water to flood the vessel, accelerated
by secondary flooding as regular
openings in the ship's hull became
submerged
About 130 minutes after the collision,
water started pouring from the six into
the seventh compartment over the top
of the bulkhead in between.
Captain Smith, alerted by the jolt of the
impact, arrived on the bridge and
ordered full stop. Shortly after midnight
following an inspection by the ship's
officers and Thomas Andrews,
Lifeboats were order to be readied and
a distress call was sent out.
Ships responded but was to far away
to get to the Titanic. The only ship
which was the closest ship was
Cunard Line’s Carphie 58 miles away
) which could arrive in an estimated
four hours—too late to rescue all of
Titanic's Passengers .
Survivors
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Of a total of 2,223 people aboard the Titanic
only 706 survived, less than a third survived
and 1,517 perished.
The majority of deaths were caused by
hypothermia in the 28° F (−2 °C) water were
death could be expected in less than 15
minutes.
Men and members of the 2nd and 3rd class
were less likely to survive. Of the male
passengers in second class, 92 percent
perished. Less than a quarter of third-class
passengers survived Six of the seven children
in first class survived, all of the children in
second class survived, whereas less than half
were saved in third class. 96 percent of the
women in first class survived, 86 percent of the
women survived in second class and less than
half survived in third class.
Overall, only 20 percent of the men survived,
compared to nearly 75 percent of the women.
Men in first class were four times as likely to
survive as men in second class, and twice as
likely to survive as those in third.
Four of the eight officers survived. About 21 of
the 29 able seamen survived and all seven
quartermasters and eight lookouts survived.
Three of the 13 leading firemen survived,
around 45 other firemen survived and around
20 of the 73 coal trimmers survived.
Four of the 33 greasers survived and one of
the six mess hall stewards survived. Around 60
of the 322 stewards and 18 of the 23
stewardesses survived. Three of the 68
restaurant staffs survived. All five postal clerks,
guarantee group, and eight-member orchestra
perished.
Some people who was sailing away from the
Titanic saw the boat split in two and sink away
under the icy seas of the Atlantic Ocean