I am president and founder member of the first titanic society in n.ireland founded in 1992 .80 years after the ship sank
2006-10-08 08:56:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Studying Abroad
1. Sunk on its maiden voyage.
2. Largest lose of life at that time during peace time
3. Conceived as "unsinkable".
4. Number of bad omens - incident with the New York leaving Southampton dock, A death during its launch in Belfast of a H & W employee.
5.It wasCaptain Edward J. Smith last command before retirement. Yet with all his experience he "ignored" ice warning with may have pervented the disaster.
6.Lack Of Lifeboats/ Change in law after the sinking to provide enough lifeboats for every passenger & crew member
2006-10-10 10:33:45 · answer #1 · answered by chatter 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
titanic disasters is written in the book of history in the chapter of disasters, and in that chapter TITANIC is the longest section.
Titanic shadows any other ship drowing event cuz of its size.
I live in india but i never knew about it. I came to know much dtails abt it after seeing NatGeo and the movie. the publicity given by media also accounts for it. Titanic was one of the biggest manmade structure floating on water but it sank on its firstjourney unfortunately it sank. This ship also challenged manmade science and technology by misfortune. This ship drowning event was important with respect to the misfortune it had with it.
2006-10-09 14:29:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the most well known shipping disaster was the one where 23,000 cups of jello were being shipped to Ireland and the trailer filled with it fell into a geyser and then to a cold lake. People ate Jello for years!
2006-10-08 09:04:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
is it cos the Titanic was supposed to be unsinkable and the biggest ship built of it's time? i also personally do not know of any other shipping disasters where so many people have died.
2006-10-08 09:00:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because it was the biggest of the time and had many deaths. Also for some reason the ship seems to capture manys attention.
2006-10-08 09:19:00 · answer #5 · answered by gggggggggggg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because It was supposed to be unsinkable, then it sunk.
They had plenty of time to save everyone, but couldn't because of the lack of lifeboats. It was on its maiden voyage, and it had the biggest loss of life for a peacetime disaster.
2006-10-08 17:26:44 · answer #6 · answered by Scarlett 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because of the conspiracy theory regarding the Olympic being sunk after being swapped with the Titanic as part of a major insurance fraud.
2006-10-08 08:59:15 · answer #7 · answered by Joker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because of the sheer arrogance of the shipping company advertising it as the unsinkable, then it sank on its first sailing.
2006-10-08 09:05:02 · answer #8 · answered by Wendy M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'cos of the maiden voyage and the 'unsinkable' (never quoted by H&W or W S Line) attribution to the ship. But shouldn't you know that already?
2006-10-08 08:59:22 · answer #9 · answered by A True Gentleman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wasn't it the first big disaster news to be spread around the world by telegram.
2006-10-08 09:04:06 · answer #10 · answered by Vicky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋