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The RMS Titanic

The RMS Titanic. The Unsinkable Ship. On the Titanic’s building. It cost 7.5 million dollars to build. Only 3 of the Titanic’s smoke stacks were functional. The 4 th was to make it look more impressive. It took 3,000 men 2 years and 3 million rivets to make the Titanic.

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The RMS Titanic

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  1. The RMS Titanic The Unsinkable Ship

  2. On the Titanic’s building • It cost 7.5 million dollars to build. • Only 3 of the Titanic’s smoke stacks were functional. The 4th was to make it look more impressive. • It took 3,000 men 2 years and 3 million rivets to make the Titanic. • Legend holds that the workers worked so fast that they accidentally trapped a man in the hull and left him to die.

  3. Other interesting Facts • A first class ticket was $4, 700 ($50,000 in today’s economy) • It is said that Captain Smith, who was retiring after the Titanic’s maiden voyage, went down with the ship.

  4. Foreshadowing Doom • One of the first class passengers W.T. Stead wrote two fictional stories about ships sinking. One was entitled “From the Old World to the New” (1892) in which a White Star Liner ship (same maker as the Titanic) sunk because it hit an iceberg. • W.T. Stead drown after the Titanic sank. • When the Titanic was pulling out of harbor it created suction which snapped the rope holding onto a near-by ship. Tug boats raced to stop that ship from hitting the Titanic.

  5. Facts about the Iceberg • There were 6 warnings sent to the Titanic about icebergs in the Atlantic, they were all ignored. • The night of the collision (April 14th, 1912) there was no moon and the waters were calm, this made it harder to see any icebergs • Unlike most icebergs this one was mostly clear due to continuous melting, they call this a blackberg. • Generally only 1/10th of icebergs are visible above the water.

  6. There is conjecture that this is the iceberg that sunk the Titanic.

  7. The Collision • The Titanic was traveling 22.5 knots while cruising through iceberg laden waters. Just .5 knot from her maximum speed capability. • The collision occurred at 11:40 P.M. on Sunday, April 14, 1912. • Murdoch had ordered the engines reversed which had, ironically, sealed the Titanic's doom. Like all ships, the Titanic turned more quickly the greater her forward motion. Had the Titanic proceeded ahead and turned, it is most likely that she would have avoided hitting the iceberg all together.

  8. The Collision continued… • The gash that the iceberg cut into the hull of the Titanic was between 220 to 245 feet long. The total length of the ship was approximately 882 feet. • Though the damage in the hull was 220 to 245 feet long, the most recent evidence shows that there was only a 12 square foot opening (the size of a refrigerator) in the hull allowing water inside the ship. • The "watertight" compartments of the Titanic's hull were not actually watertight. They were open at the tops, which aided in her demise. • The ship could have stayed afloat had only four compartments flooded... Five became flooded. • As the ship was sinking, the stern rose out of the water, and broke into two pieces between the third and fourth funnels.

  9. The Aftermath • 1,503 people total died, including passengers and crew. Only 705 people survived. • 962 lifeboat seats were required by law. • 1,178 lifeboat seats were carried aboard. 2,208 lifeboat seats were needed. • One of the first lifeboats to leave the Titanic carried only 28 people; it could have held 64 people. • There were 472 lifeboat seats not used.

  10. The Aftermath continued… • 300 dead bodies were pulled from the sea the next morning. They were found floating in their life-jackets. Many other floating bodies were not found because they had drifted off. • The temperature of the Atlantic at the time of sinking was 31 degrees. This temperature was the biggest cause of death among the population. • There were many dogs aboard the Titanic. Two of the dogs survived. • Orders from the Captain were that, women and children were to board the lifeboats first. One man, Daniel Buckley, disguised himself as a woman to get aboard a lifeboat. • Charles Joughin was the only person to survive the ice cold Atlantic water...He reportedly had been drinking heavily. • Of children fatalities, only 1 child from first class died, while 49 children from steerage died.

  11. Bibliography: • http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html

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