who is responsible titanic sinking and how many died and how did it take to sink?

Question

how many people died when it sank.and how long did it take
to sink.and also i want to know who was responsible .and is it true that was the biggest ship in the world

Answer 1

yes at that time. they hit an iceburg, but the cause of so many deaths were there werent as many lifeboats - but people didnt get on the lifeboats right away. People didn't believe it could sink, when they finally wanted to get on the boats - it was already too late.

Answer 2

All the above answers are true, and I agree, but it should be remembered that the same is true with any technological advance, or even with any disaster. In the '50s, there was a string of accidents with the first modern jet airliners, the British Comets. That's when engineers first figured out about barometric stress and cracking airframes. Try figuring out how many airplane pilots died before parachutes were conceived and perfected. Somewhat related, there was a another ship sinking in the mid-'70s off the US East Coast -it was a merchant ship, not a 5000-passenger liner- where almost all the crew died of cold before being rescued [sorry, don't remember the name]. After that was when the Coast Guard required ships to carry special cold-water immersion ["survival" suits]. So yeah, i'ts a common theme that it takes a disaster to make people realise that there;s a problem and find a solution.

Answer 3

in addition to the fine answers here already:

Titanic had aboard the legally required number of lifeboats......the law at the time was a certain number of boats based on size and volume; the simple concept of lifeboat capacity = number of people wasn't put into effect till after the tragedy.

and just to show it sometimes takes a LONG time for common sense to take hold....from 1912 to 1956 the rule was lifeboats=people. When Andrea Doria was rammed by Stockholm off Massachusetts in 1956, she listed so quickly that the boats on the high side couldn't be launched. If she had sunk quickly, 1/2 the people aboard would have gone swimming.

The light bulb finally went off....today the rule is enough lifeboats to take off everybody PLUS enough inflatable liferafts ( those white painted canisters about the size of an oil drum) to take off 1/2 the people.

Titanic sank because of a flaw in her design. She had watertight bulkheads ( interior walls) but they didn't go all the way up to the main deck........hitting the iceberg at an angle ripped a hole in 5 forward most compartments...the water filled these compartments AND THEN OVERFLOWED into the next one aft, then the next then the next.....that's why she went down by the bow....had she hit the iceberg dead on, crumpled the front but only opened three compartments, she would have stayed afloat

Answer 4

G'day mwandawfa,

Thank you for your question.

The Titanic hit an iceberg. Normally, the lookouts would have seen it in time but due to no wind, no moon and the dark side of the iceberg facing the ship, they didn't see it in time. The ship hit the iceberg at 11.40pm. There weren't enough lifeboats and the third class passengers had trouble reaching them. It sunk at 2.20pm.

1,517 people died. If the lifeboats had been full, 1,178 people would have died. The majority of 1st and 2nd class passengers survived. The majority of third class passengers and crew died including all of the engineers and ships band.

It was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of its sinking.

I have attached sources for your reference.

Seasons greetings

Answer 5

The captain
1500 approximately dead
according to a survivor's son it took the ship 1 hour 45 minutes to sink
In 1912 yes..

Answer 6

See
The History Channel.com/Titanic
The Discovery Channel.com/Titanic
This is too complex to answer here.

Answer 7

Jack and Rose doing it in the car distracted the crew and they hit the iceberg.