the titanic?

Question

plaese tell what u noe!

Answer 1

The rivits failed in the hull plating seams due to tremendous pressure when the ship ran along the iceberg. This allowed water into 5 of the watertight compartments. The ship was designed to remain afloat with only up to 4 of them flooded...

Answer 2

The facts of Titanic are widely known and publicized. It was a tragedy for sure, but the stories of the people are just as fascinating. There was a man on board that had kidnapped his two sons away from their mother and was bringing them to America. The children survived, but he did not. It took awhile for their identities to known, but when they were able to learn who the children were, their mother was brought over to get them and she returned home with them. Even though Titanic was so luxurious, the sinking brought into sharp focus the separation of the classes of people and how differently they were treated. Not only that, but the way ships sailed after that was changed. Laws were put in place, such as there had to be enough lifeboats with seating for all passengers. It also led to the creation of the International Ice Patrol which since that time has watched the icebergs and amends the shipping lanes when they drift into the paths that the ship travel by. They also began maintaining 24 hour radio contact, which has gotten much easier with the advances in technology. Read some of the factual book and other literature about the Titanic then watch the James Cameron's Titanic again. It is amazing to me how accurately he was able to recreate the setting and how life must have been for the passengers for those few days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic

Answer 3

Big ship poorly designed. It is interesting that it had two sister ships of similiar design. One had an similiar habit of running into stuff and the other suffered a similiar disaster.

The RMS Olympic, the first ship of the class made before the Titanic. Less than three months after its maiden voyage, it collided with the cruiser HMS Hawke and had to limp in for repairs. Parts from the Titanic, under construction at the time were used to repair the Olympic. Later, she was used as a troop ship and sunk a German U-boat by ramming. Her habit of hitting other ships continued when she hit the Nantucket light ship causing the death of seven. She was sold for scrap in the 1930s.

The HMHS Britannic was built after the Titanic and had a LOT more life boats. In 1914 it was taken by the Fleet and used as a hospital ship in WW ONE. She hit a mine and sunk very rapidly, many feel due to the habit the nurses had of opening all the port holes to ventilate the sick rooms. Interestingly enough, because the ship was a "war ship" at the time it sunk, it still belongs to the British government, who stopped plans to raise her from her 110 meter grave.

Answer 4

She had two sister ships, RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic. Her length was 882 foot 9 inches, her beam 92 foot 6 inches , and her speed 26.4 miles per hour. Originally declared unsinkable, the titanic sunk in the atlantic after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage on 14th April 1912, at 2:20 am. Thousands lost their lives that fateful night (1496 lost, 712 survivors, the number is debateable) however, the life boats were sufficient to carry almost all passengers. But in their panic, the boats were only half loaded. The very first lifeboat was number 7, lowered at 12:45 am. There was capacity for 65 passengers, but only 28 were on it. There were 60% first class passengers saved, 44% 2nd class and 25% 3rd class. 24% crew were saved. Some lifeboats returned to save people in the water but only 10 were actually pulled into the lifeboats from the sea. The carpathia was the ship that appeared that night to pick up the lifeboats. The Mackay-Bennet was the ship sent to recover bodies, only 333 bodies were recovered from the thousands who perished.
It was originally thought that the boat split in two like in the film starring Kate Winslet/Leo diCaprio, but recent evidence suggests it actually cracked, then the water levels compressed it sideways, causing it to evetually split. the passengers and crew initially thought they had hours to stay afloat, then bang, it sunk in a matter of minutes.

Answer 5

In 1912, the Titanic, a steamship in England's White Star Line, set out on its doomed maiden voyage, with 2,227 enthusiastic passengers and crew members on board for the history-making trip from Southampton, England, to New York City. Only 705 would survive the ship's collision with a massive iceberg.

The "unsinkable" ocean liner hit an iceberg late in the evening on April 14 and sunk in the early hours of April 15.

Titanic Facts


Here are some of the most interesting facts about the ship and its fateful journey:

The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, though only 20 were on board; White Star management was concerned that too many boats would sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship.
Survivors were rescued by the Carpathia, which was 58 miles southeast of Titanic when it received the distress call.
Titanic boasted electric elevators, a swimming pool, a squash court, a Turkish Bath, and a gymnasium with a mechanical horse and mechanical camel.
The wreckage of Titanic was located in 1985, 12,500 feet down, about 350 miles (531 km) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
A first class (parlor suite) ticket on Titanic cost $4,350, which translates into $50,000 today.
Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the Titanic tragedy, died in Massachusetts on May 6, 2006, at age 99. Her mother and a brother also survived, but her father and three other brothers perished. Two other survivors live in England. Eleanor Shuman, who was the inspiration for Kate Winslet's Rose, died on March 7, 1998, at age 87.
James Cameron's 1997 Blockbuster


These days, the word Titanic immediately conjures up images of the starry-eyed Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet passionately embracing as they lean precariously over the bow of the ship, with the wind in their sprightly young faces and the world at their feet.

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Encyclopedia: Titanic
With all the hoopla over the epic's mega-budget, mega-box-office gross and record-tying slew of Oscars, the film Titanic has become itself a cultural phenomenon—nearly as monumental as the event on which it was based.

Millions of Dollars, Millions of Fans


Indeed, Titanic director James Cameron meticulously replicated the minutiae of the original ship, from chandeliers and wallpaper that adorn the posh dining rooms down to the ashtrays.

The fact remains that Americans have dished out more than $600 million not out of interest in learning more about the disaster, but out of fascination with the Hollywood spectacle.

Answer 6

the titanic was called unsincable but it hit an Icebeg was filled with water more people died of hypothermia then drowning bedause of how cold the Alantic Ocean is

Answer 7

A big ship, deem unsinkable but it did , after hitting an iceberg on its maiden
voyage

Answer 8

it was a big *** ship that hit a ice berg and alot died that night and titanic means unsinkabul

Answer 9

I'm sorry, but your answer must be in question form!

Answer 10

Do your own homework.