Titanic Information?

Question

Tell me everything you know about Titanic, please? Good websites would be helpful too. I need it for a Creative Writing project.

Answer 1

I lifted this from a cool website about the Titanic and her two sister ships, Olympic and Britannic:

R.M.S. TITANIC

1. The Titanic was the second of three nearly identical sister ships built for the White Star Line. The Olympic was the first ship of the class and the Britannic was the final ship. These vessels were designed to carry three classes of passengers between England and the United States.
2. The Olympic was the first ship to exceed 800 feet in length and the first to break the 40,000 ton mark.
3. The Titanic was originally scheduled to leave on her maiden voyage on March 20, 1912. However, a collision between the Olympic and the cruiser Hawke forced White Star to delay Titanic's debut while Olympic was repaired.
4. The Titanic left Southampton, England on her maiden voyage at noon on April 10, 1912. The ship nearly collided with the liner New York and this delayed the start of the trip by nearly an hour. The ship stopped at Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland before heading for New York on the evening of April 11.
5. At 11:40 PM on Sunday, April 14, the lookouts in the Crow's Nest spotted an iceberg directly ahead of the Titanic. First Officer Murdoch ordered a hard turn to the left and reversed the engines, but it was too late. Although a head-on collision had been averted, the iceberg scrapped along the right side of the ship, punching small holes and popping out rivets in the hull. The Titanic was divided into 16 watertight compartments and could survive flooding in any 2 sections, and the first four compartments in a dire emergency. This was a fairly safe design that protected the ship form most of the hazards of the sea. Unfortunately, the berg opened up the first six compartments and the pumps could not contain the flooding. The damage was fatal, and nothing could stop the ship from sinking. One of the ship's designers, Thomas Andrews, told Captain Smith that the Titanic would founder (sink) in about two hours.
6. Because of outdated laws, the Titanic (and most other ships of the time) only had enough lifeboats for about half of the roughly 2200 people on board. Although there were plenty of life jackets, the water temperature was about 28 degrees and people would quickly freeze to death. Women and children were ordered into the lifeboats, but since the Captain did not want to start a panic, the passengers were not told the ship was sinking. Most passengers could not believe that the huge Titanic could sink, so many of the first boats lowered were not filled to capacity. (Contrary to popular myth, the Titanic and her sisters were never advertised as unsinkable.)
7. As the Titanic sank lower and lower into the freezing water, more and more passengers willingly got into the lifeboats. Whether or not a person got into one of the boats, however, was left to luck. On the left side of the ship the strict rule was women and children only, while on the right side men were allowed in at times. Officers had to fire guns to keep panicking passengers from rushing the boats toward the end. By 2:00 AM, the main lifeboats were gone, leaving about 1600 people onboard. The first funnel fell and killed many people swimming in the water. Two collapsible lifeboats floated off the ship as it sank and some people survived by swimming out to them. In the final seconds the Titanic broke in two between the third and fourth funnels. At about 2:20, two and a half hours after hitting the iceberg, the stern slipped beneath the waves and the Titanic was gone.
7. The Cunard liner Carpathia rescued the 705 survivors by the afternoon of April 15th. Over 1500 people had been lost. The International Ice Patrol, and the Coast Guard, was established in the wake of the disaster. The laws were changed so that all ships would carry lifeboats for every passenger on board. This is the legacy of the Titanic.
8. Titanic's sistership Olympic had a long and successful career of nearly 25 years before being retired and scrapped in 1935. The final sister, Britannic, served briefly as a hospital ship before striking a mine and sinking in 1916.


Other Views of the Titanic Disaster

Some say the Titanic disaster happened a little differently than what is stated above. Here are some examples:
1. The evasive action to miss the iceberg: The Titanic did not reverse the engines while trying to turn away from the berg, but simply stopped them so as to avoid hitting the icefield behind the berg. (Slamming the engines into reverse should have thrown people out of their chairs and beds, but survivors never said that happened)
2. The collision with the iceberg: The Titanic actually ran over an underwater ice shelf from the iceberg. This ripped open large section of the ships keel. (The bottom of the ship) The iceberg did not open up the side of the ship like most people believe.
3. The real reason the ship sank: The Titanic was badly damaged by the iceberg, but not quite enough to sink the ship. The pumps were keeping the ship afloat until Captain Smith started the engines and tried to make it to land. The movement of the ship opened up the damaged sections even more and caused the Titanic to flood more quickly. This caused the ship to sink.

Answer 2

The RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, killing over 1500 people. The Titanic sailed under the British flag and its home port was Liverpool England. The wreck was discovered in 1985, in about 12,500 feet beneath the North Atlantic. The coordinates are 41 degrees 43' 32"N, 49 degrees 56' 49"W. The ship was 882 feet 9 inches long and it could do about 23 knots per hour (equivalent to 26.5 miles per hour). In addition to the capacity to carry 3,547 passengers, it was also commission to carry mail (thus the intials RMS = Royal Mail Steamer) Some items from the ship have been recovered but salvage rights to the Titanic have been tied up in courts for years and there are no current plans to bring the ship up.

Answer 3

http://www.titanic1.org/

http://www.titanic.com/modules/articles/

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/titanic.html
Titanic's Final Resting Place
12,500 ft (3810 m)
In 1985, Dr. Robert Ballard led a team of researchers in a joint French-American expedition and found the final resting place of the R.M.S. Titanic. He and his colleagues returned one year later with the DSV Alvin and a specially designed robot, the Jason Jr., to explore the ship.

Answer 4

It was the worlds biggest and baddest ship. It hit an iceberg and sank, killing lots of people. Here are a bunch of websites.

http://www.google.com/search?q=titanic&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

Answer 5

the ship was not completed to drawing specs, they did not have enough lifeboats to accomodate the passengers, and it sunk.