why was the titanic such a disaster?

Answer 1

It was designed with a system of watertight bulkheads between compartments which could withstand up to 5 being punctured and flooded without causing the ship to sink. Unfortunately the iceberg strike dragged down the side of the ship and punctured 6 of the compartments, causing catastrophic flooding which the ship could not survive.
This in itself should not have led to large loss of life, as the ship only started to sink slowly at first. There should have been plenty of time to fill lifeboats, but the captain delayed giving the order to abandon ship as it was not immediately evident how badly the ship had been damaged. Once the order was given, many lifeboats were sent out with fewer passengers aboard than their design permitted, and in any case there were not enough to go round (although not to the extent implied in the film).
Again this might not have led to such loss of life if the situation had been only a little different. The delay in declaring an emergency meant that ships which could have been close enough to pick up survivors did not start towards the area until well after the iceberg hit. This meant that passengers were in the freezing water for far too long to survive.
Add in the geographical situation (a lot fewer would have died if the accident had happened between 2 ships in the caribbean, for example, as passengers would not have died of exposure) and the fact that it was night (which hindered the picking up of survivors and the efforts of ships coming to the aid of Titanic to find the site of the shipwreck) and you see that it was such a disaster due to a combination of unforeseeable factors. If any one thing had been done differently, the story could have ended in another way.

Answer 2

The Titanic was considered a disaster because:

1 The ship was so modern that it had every safety feature that you could think of for it's day. Watertight compartments, Wireless sets and the best crew that White Star could hire.

2. As it was a Maiden Voyage it carried 2,223 souls aboard with lifeboats for only about a quarter of the people on board. These were launched a quarter to half full even after the ship was known to be sinking.

3. It was considered by the first class passenger's that the 16 lifeboats on board the ship were for them only.

4. Through an odd series of events the ship had lost ,at least, three and maybe four compartments to the collision and then did not have to watertight compartments built up to the main deck so as one filled it rose to the top and then spilled into what should have been a dry compartment.

Answer 3

Well they didn't include enough safety precautions such as adequate life boats. It probably wasn't equipped with the safety design features we have nowadays. It was one of the greatest shipping disasters as over a thousand people died. It's worth noting that we are so desensitized to these things nowadays that disasters like this get forgotten almost instantly. For example a couple of years ago a ferry went down killing a similar number of people to the Titanic and it got very little coverage. Yet we still remember Titanic after nearly a century. Probably because it was promoted as the ultimate unsinkable pleasure cruiser and they thought it was invincible. I think it is the irony that this ship was praised and made out to be so fantastic that makes it so tragic.

Answer 4

There are a lot of reasons.

First and foremost, the hull design was flawed. The designers were only concerned with direct frontal or side impact, not a strafing or angled impact as it encountered. The hull was designed to withstand a breach by having baffles or partial walls that would contain the water and allow the ship to remain afloat in case of a breach. However, the way the ship struck the iceberg caused several of these baffles to be breached at once, allowing too much water in and overwhelming the control system.

Second, the rudder assembly was too small for quick maneuvering. The ship could not turn very quickly. It was assumed that they only needed to be able to maneuver around docks and at low speed, and that the crows nest being so far above the water would give plenty of warning to be able to move around obstacles. However, the need to turn quickly was first realized when approaching the iceberg, which the crows nest could not see due to the atmospheric conditions. Most often an iceberg at night is spotted by observing the breaking of waves against its base, but on that night the sea was too calm and there were very few breakers to observe, hence they saw it too late the the ship could not turn fast enough.

In fact, with the above 2 points, they would have been better off striking the iceberg directly head-on at full speed or under full reverse to slow the ship. This would have allowed the baffle system to contain the water and the ship would likely have been able to limp into port with substantial damage, but still afloat.

Lastly, the real tragedy was the fact that overconfidence and undertraining of the ships compliment cause many people to not be aboard life rafts. Due the their confidence in the design as being "unsinkable", they only allowed enough deck space for life rafts to move the ship's passengers to another ship in a series of little trips, as the worst disaster they could imagine would be a fire and likely give them enough time to take a boatload at a time to a rescue ship and return for another load. Therefore, there were not enough life rafts to house the entire ship's worth of passengers to begin with. Secondly, the ships crew was not trained sufficiently in dealing with a sinking and many poor decisions were made, including filling most life rafts not even half-full, leaving many passengers to fend for themselves on the sinking ship.

The Titanic disaster was the result of many factors playing out at exactly the wrong moment in time. You can find many more mistakes that were made than these with a simple google search, but these were the biggies that caused it to happen in the first place and to lose so many lives as a result.

Answer 5

It was such a disaster because they believed that the Titanic was unsinkable which as proved was very wrong. because they had been assured that it was unsinkerble there were not enough lifeboats for the amount of passingers being carried so when it sunk 750 people had no lifeboats to get into and were drowned
mostly men because in them days men were very proud people and women and children came first

Answer 6

a million. not actual in any respect. 2. maximum lifeboats could carry 70 or greater grown men. And there have been approximately 2,2 hundred passengers and group aboard. 3. The captain wasn't even on the deck. The lookouts could not see the iceberg because of the fact the sea replaced into so calm, and the sky replaced into so darkish. 4. What are you speaking approximately? Your questions coach that a splash expertise is a risky element.

Answer 7

The Titanic disaster in 1912 combined many features:-
1. The Titanic was badly built, as has been detailed to you. It did not have enough transverse watertight bulheads, and they did not go high enough. Unluckily, the gash made by the iceberg was just too long to prevent the water from progressively filling one compartment after another. In addition, there is reason to believe that the Titanic was structurally weak: its sister ship Olympic suffered increasingly from structural cracks in the years after the First World War. The Titanic's contemporary rivals in the Cunard Line, the Mauretania and Lusitanis, would not have had the same problem with the iceberg as they were designed for conversion to Armed Cruisers and had side coal bunkers as protection.
2. The route from Cobh, near Cork in Ireland, the Titanic's last European port of call, and new York has to be a compromise between the shortest Great Circle route and one far enough to be clear of icebergs. The Titanic went as far North as it dared, and unfortuately a berg had come unnusaly far South.
3. Again for commercial reasons, the Ttianic was reluctant to slow in the light of iceberg warnings.
4. The ship was badly handled when the iceberg was spotted. A head-on collision would have been more survivable than the ecutally glancing blow, which resulted in damage over a greater length of the ship and one less desinged to sustain it than the bow.
5. Because radio was a new invention, it was badly used, e.g. wireless operators of nearby ships had signed off for the night. In addition, distress flares were not spotted.
6. Apart from the inadequate provision of lifebelts, evacuation into them was badly handled, many leaving half full. In addition, the diffferential survival of first, particularly, and second class passengers raised social issues. Apart from the loss of life in absolute liners, a number of very rich and famous, in their time, men lost their lives.

The facts of the Titanic disaster were bad enough. However, there have been other serious shipping disasters that have not recieved similar publicity, including wartime sinkings such as the loss of the Lancastria with several thousand lives in 1940. But the Titanic disaster was particularly striking, not least in publicity terms, for many reasons:-
1. The loss of the ship starkly contrasted with White Star Line publicity as to its "unsinkability". As Titanic was planned to be the second of three similar ships (Olympic was the first and Britannic, lost in the First World War, the third) its maiden voyage was particularly "hyped" as it did not have the intrinsic novelty of the first ship in the series.
2. As use of radio was new issues as to how far it could have prevented the disaster were a matter of great public interest. This generalised into questions about the possible negligence of nearby ships that failed to some to the rescue in time.
3. 1912 was a time of considerable social unrest due to economic inequalities. Apart from the deaths of rich men whose passing would in themselves have generated considerable newspaper coverage, the loss of the Titanic highlighted differential treatment on class grounds.
4. The slow sinking, taking several hours, of the Titanic gave the newspapers great scope for "human interest" stories, notably the ship's band playing as the Titanic sank. The conductor, whose body was found, was given a huge public funeral (as was Captain Smith, the Titanic's master,who came from Stoke on Trent).
5. The issue of the Titanic's loss was kept open by major public inquiries both in the United States and England.
6. As some of the suvivors were very young children, people remembered the disaster for many years.

All these feature have combined to give the Titanic a symbolic status as an example of a disaster which lead to huge loss of life and which was the result of misplaced arrogance and multiple mistakes

Answer 8

The Titanic was considered "unsinkable" in it's day (1912). It set sail from England to the Us with over 2200 people on board, of those 1503 died. Titanic struck an iceberg and within 2 hrs and 40 minutes it had sunk. It is one of the worst ship disasters in history.

Answer 9

The titanic was advertised as the first unsinkable ship. Another reason so many people died, they had the area between the first class and the economy class locked and it was very difficult for the people in the economy class to get out. There were not enough lifeboats available, which made the situation even more critical.

Answer 10

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