Why Was The Big Beast So Important?

The Titanic‘s construction began on March 31, 1909. On May 31, 1911, the ginormous ship has sailed. As on the night of April 14, 11:40 PM, lookouts spotted a large iceberg dead ahead. As the ship and the iceberg move towards each other, BOOM! The Titanic and the iceberg crashed like two middle schoolers in a hallway bumping into each other. A big total of 1,517 men, women, and children died along with the Titanic. Most killed themselves after the Titanic’s sinkage, and a total of 328 bodies were found. But who was to blame of the sinkage?

The article Into the Dark Water by Lauren Tarshis is about when the most massive, high in technology, indestructible ship sunk. The Titanic of course. Also when passenger and survivor Jack Thayer shared his journey, through his writing with author Lauren Tarshis. It makes the article more intriguing to use quotes because it makes you feel as if you are on the ship on that night.

On April 14th, 1912, the Titanic set sail and crashed into an iceberg. About 705 passengers were rescued but 1500 died that night by freezing in the waters or sinking with the ship.

On April 14, 1912 what was known as one of the safest ships, the titanic, sank.

The speed of the titanic was very fast, she would move 21 knots and 60,000 tons moved when she was upon sea. Titanic’s engines had the power of 46,000 horses and her fires consumed a ton of coal every 2 minutes. (Davenport- Hines, Richard. Pg. 22).

The journey came to a halt when the ship hit an iceberg and began to sink.

Out of 2,201 people on the Titanic, 706 people survived. One of those people that survived, was Marie Marthe Thuillard. The Titanic did not kill her, cancer did. She survived the Titanic. Although the Titanic hit an iceberg at 10:40 p.m. all of them did not have to die.

“She brushed the berg so gently that many on board didn’t notice it, but so lethally that she was instantly doomed (Lord).” The Titanic sent out her first distressed call at 12:15 a.m. (Lord). At 12:45, she began to fire rockets (Lord). At 1:10 when the first lifeboat pulled away, the water was up to the ship’s portholes (Lord). Fifty-five minutes later, at 2:05, the last lifeboat had left and there were 1,600 people stuck on the sloping decks (Lord). At 2:17, the Titanic majestically stood on end (Lord). It was at 2:20, on April 15, 1912, when the Titanic, the unsinkable ship had slipped beneath the sea (Lord). The sinking of the Titanic was known as the most famous disasters at sea (“Edward J. Smith”

There were many factors to why the ship sunk, however the three main ones are, that the ship didn’t slow down while approaching the iceberg, a few of the crew members ignored the warning, and the iceberg that struck the ship affected it majorly. In the article, titled “R.M.S. Titanic” by Hanson W. Baldwin, he states a quote from a crewman from the Titanic saying, “ Shut up, Shut up; keep out. I am talking to Cape Race; you are jamming my signals.” Since he ignored the warning a few moments later at about 11:40 p.m. the ship came in contact with the iceberg. Baldwin also stated that there was a, “... three-hundred-foot slash in the bottom of the great Titanic.”

The Titanic was the biggest ship then but it went down faster than anyone would have expected. One iceberg took this humongous ship down on April 15, 1912. This shipwreck is known as one of the worst things to happen in history. The Titanic held many people, but could not save as many that were on the ship.

The sinking of the Titanic occured in the year of 1912. Many believe that the ship was destroyed by a misly iceberg, but wasn’t the Titanic considered indestructible? The thought of the ship being indestructible was not brought on by everyone it was the thought of the crewmembers.

A. The Titanic was thought to be the largest, safest, most luxurious ship ever built.

The RMS Titanic; A Tragedy Based on Class. In April, 1912, the so called "unsinkable" Titanic set sail to New York. The great ship was as big as five city blocks, and weighed thousands and thousands of tons. Everyone who was everyone grabbed a room on the luxurious ship for the trip of a lifetime. On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg an sank into the icy depths of the North Atlantic.

The construction of the RMS Titanic started on March 31, 1909 in Belfast, North Ireland and cost $7.5 million. The man who designed it was a naval architect named Thomas Andrews. The ship was built to be the world’s largest passenger steamship, along with two other ships, the Olympic and Britanic. Although the ship has always been known to many as unsinkable, it was actually never supposed to be advertised like that. Extra measures were put into the ship to insure safety, for example, if four watertight compartments out of the 16 were flooded, the ship would still stay afloat. Even though all these precautions were made, who would have ever thought that a single iceberg could cause such a huge devastation.

Cameron spent more time on the Titanic than the ships’ original passengers because he made 12 trips to the wreck site that lasted between ten and twelve hours each.