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Causes And Effects Of The Titanic

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On April 30, 1907, Bruce Ismay and William James Pirrie had an idea to build a ship, the Titanic. “Harland and Wolff of Belfast, Ireland built the ship,” (United States). Within a few days short of five years, the Titanic was then ready to set sail from Belfast to Southampton. There were 2,223 passengers on board making their way to a better life. The Titanic made it to Southampton the next day, and then set sail for New York. The Titanic gave many people a chance to start a new life in America, and it was known as “The Ship of Dreams”. The ship consisted of millionaires all the way down to immigrants. This dream ship was also said to be unsinkable, however, this story is something that literally went down in history. Many sources state that the cause of the Titanic’s demise on April 14, 1912, was due to a variety of causes such as, the way the rivets were placed, the airtight rooms were not airtight, there were not enough lifeboats for the number of passengers present, Captain Smith avoided iceberg warnings, and the weather that night was a major problem altogether. Each of these played a key role in the tragic downfall of the White Star Liner ship, the Titanic, but the rivets and construction of the ship were the main issues at fault. While building the Titanic, “there was absolutely no price limit in which the constructors of the ship needed to be considerate of,” (United States). It should have been conducted of the best quality materials, as well as equipped with everything necessary for survival in case of an emergency. If the boat was said to be “unsinkable”, the constructors should have made sure that was the absolute truth. When constructing the ship, tiny rivets were used to hold it together; however, they were conducted of poor quality material, as well as placed on the ship in a poor manor. They were not uniform in composition or quality, which allowed the body of the ship to be extremely weak and vulnerable to any damage that the journey could potentially bring. When the boat struck the iceberg going 22.5 knots, just a half a knot shy of the top speed, the hull was immediately damaged, and rivets were scraped off as well as destroyed. This opened up seams of the ship, creating an even more

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