when did the titanic sink and why and how many people died and survived?

Answer 1

the Titanic sunk April 14, 1912.

1,523 people perished in the accident, ranking it as one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history and by far the most famous. A total of 328 bodies were eventually recovered.

On the night of Sunday, April 14, the temperature had dropped to near freezing and the ocean was completely calm. There was no moon and the sky was clear. Captain Edward Smith, perhaps in response to iceberg warnings received via wireless over the last few days, had altered Titanic's course around 10 miles (18 km) south of the normal shipping route. That Sunday at 1:45 PM, a message from the steamer Amerika warned that large icebergs lay in Titanic's path, but inexplicably, the warning was never relayed to the bridge. Later that evening, another report of numerous, large icebergs in Titanic's path, this time from the Mesaba, also failed to reach the bridge.

At 11:40 PM while sailing south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, lookouts Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee spotted a large iceberg directly ahead of the ship. Fleet sounded the ship's bell three times and telephoned the bridge. Sixth Officer Moody answered, "Yes, what do you see?", only to hear Fleet exclaiming, "Iceberg, right ahead!", to which Moody curiously responded, "thank you", before informing First Officer Murdoch of the call. Murdoch (who had now already seen the iceberg) ordered an abrupt turn to port (left) and full speed astern, which stopped and then reversed the ship's engines. A collision turned out to be inevitable, and the ship's starboard (right) side brushed the iceberg, buckling the hull in several places and popping out rivets below the waterline, creating a total of six leaks in the first five watertight compartments. Murdoch then ordered the ship hard right rudder which swung Titanic's stern away from the iceberg. The watertight doors were shut as water started filling the five compartments, one more than Titanic could stay afloat with. The weight of the compartments filling with water weighed the ship down past the top of the watertight bulkheads, allowing water to flow into the other compartments. Captain Smith, alerted by the jolt of the impact, arrived on the bridge and began to assess Titanic's situation. Following an inspection by the ship's officers and Thomas Andrews, it was apparent that the Titanic would sink, and shortly after midnight on April 15, lifeboats were ordered to be readied and a distress signal sent out.

Stress on the hull caused Titanic to break apart into two large pieces[4], between the third and fourth funnels, and the bow section went completely under. The stern section briefly righted itself on the water before rising back up vertically. After a few moments, the stern section also sank into the ocean.

Of a total of 2,223 people, only 706 survived; 1,517 perished.[5] If the lifeboats were filled to capacity 1,178 people could have been saved. Of the First Class, 199 were saved (60%) and 130 died. Of the Second Class, 119 (44%) were saved and 166 were lost. Of the Third Class, 174 were saved (25%) and 536 perished. Of the crew, 214 were saved (24%) and 685 perished. 1,347 men (80%) died, and 103 women (26%) died. 53 children (about 50%) also died. Of particular note, the entire complement of the Engineering Department, remaining at their posts to keep the ship's electrical systems running, drowned. The majority of deaths were caused by victims succumbing to hypothermia in the 28 °F (−2 °C) water. Out of the 16 lifeboats and 4 collapsibles launched only one came back. Another boat helped. Lifeboat 4 was close by and picked up eight crewmen, two of whom later died. Close to an hour later, Lifeboat 14, under the command of fifth officer Harold Lowe, went back and rescued four people, one of whom died afterwards. Other people managed to climb onto the two collapsible lifeboats that floated off the deck. There were some arguments in some of the other lifeboats about going back, but many survivors were afraid of being swamped by people trying to climb into the lifeboat or being pulled down by the anticipated suction from the sinking ship, though this turned out not to be severe. Only 12 people were picked up from the water.

As the ship sank into the depths, the two sections ended their final plunges very differently. The streamlined bow planed off approximately 2,000 feet (600 m) below the surface and slowed somewhat, landing relatively gently. The stern fell fairly straight down towards the ocean floor, possibly rotating as it sank, with the air trapped inside causing implosions. It was already half-crushed when it hit bottom at high speeds; the shock caused everything still loose to fall off. The bow section however, having been opened up by the iceberg, and sinking slowly, had no air left in it as it sank.

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Answer 2

what happened is that the titanic was heading straight ford the iceberg and it could not stop so it hit the iceberg and about 1,517died so the people and the amount that survived is 705 people survived the sinking of the titanic so that is why the titanic went down so when the Carpathia around 4:10 am in the morning so most of the titanic survived the sinking the wreck so most of them had some broken legs or had a broken arm or two broken legs arm so when that ship got there most of them was cold or frozen to death so the water temperature was around 26.5 degrees c so it was hard for most people that lost some one they had to just move on and it was bad that Ireland and Great Britain heard of the bad news that happened to the titanic and what happened to the Britannnic is that the britannic in the other hand it lost about 2,200 hundred people and the amount that survived is 30 people that survived the sinking of the britannic and the titanic that is the truth about the too ship in our time
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Answer 3

The Titanic, she struck an iceberg at 11:40 PM (ship's time) on Sunday evening April 14, 1912, broke into two pieces, and sank two hours and forty minutes later at 2:20 AM Monday morning. 1,523 people perished in the accident. Most think that the Iron in the Titanic was the reason for the accident. It has been shown to have not been properly mixed and easily gave way to the Iceberg (which is under any circumstance a tremendous cause of destruction). The Titanic is the first ship to use the S.O.S. and also the reason we have Lifeboat laws.

A joke about the Titanic: A white man, a jewish man and an arab man were all standing at the Pearly Gates and Saint Peter said, "I'll have to ask each of you a question before I can allow you to enter Heaven." Each man agreed. Saint Peter said to the Jewish man, "What was the worst Maritime disaster in History" and the Jewish man said "the sinking of the Titanic." Saint Peter agreed, the Pearly Gates swung open and the Jewish man entered.

The Arab stepped up and Saint Peter said, "How many people died on the Titanic?" The Arab man said "1,523 people perished in the accident." The Gates of Heaven swung open and the Arab entered Heaven.

The White guy stepped up and Saint Peter said "Name them...."

Answer 4

When Did The Titanic Sink

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when did the titanic sink and why and how many people died and survived?

Answer 6

The Titanic sank in April of 1912 and it sank because it hit an ice burg and got a big hole put in it....it filled up with water on one end, broke in half, one end sunk and the other end stood straight up in the air and then sunk. There had been almost 700 people on that big boat and only 71 of those people lived from it.

Answer 7

April of 1912.
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