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INTRODUCTION
Titanic was one of three ‘Olympic Class’ liners commissioned by the White Star
Line to be built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Shipbuilders Harland and
Wolff, were given much free reign in designing ships for White Star Line, thanks to their
long established relationship and the usual approach was for White Star Line to provide
a general concept to which Harland and Wolff would create into a ship design. At this
time, regards for cost were low priority and Harland and Wolff was given the go ahead
The designs of the Olympic Class ship were overseen by Lord Pirrie, a director of
both Harland and Wolff and the White Star Line; Thomas Andrews, a naval architect
and the managing director of Harland Wolff’s design department; Edward Wilding, who
was responsible for calculating the ship’s design, stability and trim; Alexander Carlisle,
1908. Work on Titanic started soon after, on 31 March 1909. These magnificent vessels
were the industrial marvels of their age and Titanic was to be the biggest, fastest, and
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The Titanic was designed to be the epitome of style, comfort and luxury including
gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries and exquisite restaurants and cabins and etc. It is
not surprising to hear that the wealthiest people in the world come to aboard the Titanic.
Although it is worth nothing that there was also well over a thousand emigrants from
Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia onboard where all of them are seeking a new life in
North America.
Given calculations using the US Department of Labor’s Inflation tool, the $7.5
million US dollars Titanic cost to build in 1912 would be roughly equivalent to $174
million today.
Titanic was finished for after three years of work, with 70,000 tons of steel as
many people called it “The Unsinkable Ship”, as many people believed that it would
never sink from the strength of a manmade cruise ship, only the titanic could only carry
3,295 people: 2,435 passengers, and crew of 860. Travellers were separated into three
classes: first, second and third class: 689 first, 674 second and 1,026 third respectively.
Through the Titanic had advances safety features, due to outdated maritime
safety regulations she lacked enough lifeboats to accommodate all onboard passengers
in fact she carried only enough lifeboats for 1,178 people, which was just a third of her
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Following the tragedy of the collision with an iceberg, passengers and some crew
disproportionate number of men, which included that 90% of men from second class
were left onboard. When Titanic finally broke in to two with over a thousand people still
on board, those on the water immersed in the freezing ocean died within minutes from
hypothermia and some hours later, 710 survivors were taken aboard from the lifeboats
The Titanic disaster provoked global shock that there was outrage at the large
number of lives lost and the regulation and operation failures that had caused it.
Many years past, debates began to form in the tragic disaster of the Titanic, on
why the Titanic got hit by the Iceberg, why many passengers died on board, and why no
one came to help or located the sinking ship but only too late. Many untold stories still
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On the year of 1909, 31st of March, the construction of Titanic was designed by
James Andrews who laid the first kneel plate in the Harland and Wolff shipyards Belfast,
with the huge structures of the Titanic, it can be seen across most on Belfast city.
estimating of 15,000 days as the height of it mostly measures to The Gantry by 220
feet.
including lack of lifeboats, flaw in the design of the ship and negligence of the crew. One
factor that we can accurately evaluate with today’s technology is the quality of steel that
was used for the Titanic, and if any shortcuts were taken during construction that may
have contributed to the disastrous event. Titanic’s three million rivets were driven by
hand. After doing a series of impct tests based on their steel sample, the team was able
to determine that the used to build the ship was much more inferior to modern steel.
About 10 times more brittle in fact compared to the steel used to make today’s ships.
Test results showed high concentrations of sulfur, oxygen and phosphorous, and low
producing the steel using open-health furnaces. Pieces of steel from the jull have also
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The frigid waters in which the Titanic struck the iceberg most likely had a big
impact on the time it took the Titanic o sink, which was about 2 hours and 40 minutes.
The below freezing temperature water made the steel abnormally brittle and less impact
resistant and contributed to the size of the hole and the rapid sinking of the ship.
Passnegers on the Titanic recalled hearing loud cracking noises coming from the ships
structure while it was sinking. Leighly noted that you would expect groaning instead of
In 1898 where 14 years before the Titanic sank, Morgan Robertson wrote a
novella titled The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility that was published in the date of 1898,
it is about a fictional ocean liner that sinks due to a collision with an iceberg. In the book,
the ship is described as being “unsinkable” and doesn’t have enough lifeboats for
everyone onboard. The similiarities are pretty uncanny. Even downright spooky. A
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Seeing the film of The Titanic makes you think all of the scenes are real, but only
some of it are. Mostly of the characters of the film where real, Actor Bernard Hill who
acted as the Captain of the Titanic, Kathy Bates who portraited as Margaret “Molly”
Brown known as “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” , Eric Braeden, an actor who played the
role as John Jacob Astor, who is the richest man from the country of New York, Victor
Garber who played the role as Thomas Andrews, the Chief Designer of Royal Mail
Ship(RMS) Titanic, Jonathan Hyde, who played the role as Bruce Ismay, an English
Businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line.
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was the only black man to perish in the
Titanic sinking. Joseph Laroche was born in Haiti in 1889 into a powerful family - his
uncle, Dessalines M. Cincinnatus Leconte, was the president of Haiti. When he was
fifteen, Joseph Laroche left to Haiti to study engineering in Beauvais, France. Several
years later, he met Juliette Lafargue, the 22-year-old daughter of a local wine seller.
The two eventually married. Despite having an engineering degree, his skin color left
him unabl to find employment in France. The Laroches decided to return to Haiti and
booked second-class reservations on the Titanic. After the ship struck an iceberg,
Joseph loaded his wife and children onto a lifevoat and he went down with the ship. His
body was never recovered. Shortly before Christmas of that year, Juliette Laroche gave
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One of the factors that makes the sinking of the Titanic so memorable is the fact
that lives were needlessly lost. There were not enough Titanic Lifeboats on board to
hold all the passengers and crew, and when the lifeboats were launched they were not
filled to capaciy.
Only the Titanic carried 20 lifeboats, enough for only 1178 people. The existing
Board of Trade required a passenger ship to provide lifeboat capacity for 1060 people.
The boat was designed to carry 60 lifeboats but this number was reduced to 20
because it was felt that the deck would be too cluttered. It was legal, accoarding to the
laws, it is not depended on the number of passengers, but on the tonnage of the ship.
Charles Lightoller as the senior surviving officer was questioned about the fact
that the lifeboats were not filled to capacity. Lightoller believed that it would be
impossible to fill the boat capacity before lowering them to sea without the mechanism
that held them collapsing. Lightoller admitted that he should have made some
At the time of the Titanic’s construction lifeboat drills were standard practice on
ocean liners, this way, the crew could prepare the passengers for an emergency should
have occur. But this type of drill, never took place on the Titanic. Captain Edward John
Smith cancelled the drill scheduled on the morning of the day the Titanic sank.
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As much to be known, mostly the stories of the TItanic, that caused the ship to
sink is the iceberg, but mostly sceintists found out that the cause of it was not ice but
fire, a journalist Senan Molony has been studying the fate of the Titanic for more than
30 years, it was he who discovered a 30 foot long black spot on the hull of the ship, he
noticed it after examining a photo taken before Titanic’s departure, the journalist got
hold of an album of previously unpublic photographs that showed the construction of the
ship and the preparations for her first and last journey, the fire had to be been burning
for 3 weeks in a very high temperature before somebody noticed it metallurgy experts
are sure that such conditions could have easily weakened the metal, reducing its
strength by as much as 25% thats why the iceberg didn’t have any problems tearing a
hole on the side of the ship, if not for the fire, it would have been impossible, but then
the iceberg exactly hit the spot where the metal was weakened, putting the danger
beside it.
No Binoculars
Worth mentioning that they have 1,500 bottles of wine, 20,000 bottles of beer,
and 8,000 cigars but the most thing that triggered is that there are no binoculars, with
binoculars, it could have saved Titanic, there were no sonar systems in the early times,
so they detect threats ahead of a liner, special people kept watch using binoculars, but
the binoculars in the Titanic have been locked away in a special compartment, the only
person with the key to the locker is the Second Officer David Blair was placed at the last
minute.
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Artir Moore heard the Titanic’s distress calls 3,000 miles away
Moore was a Welsh wireless radio operator who , with his home-made radio
equipment, picked up the Titanic’s distress signals. He relayed the message to the
locals, non of whom believed him. Two days later, news of the Titanic’s sinking made it
to Wales and Moore was vindicated. Marconi (the inventor of the telegraph) heard of
The first three smokestacks were actually connected to the furnace that
produced the smoke, but the fourth one wasn’t. The fourth stack functioned mainly as
an air vent and as a way to add some symmetry to the ship’s overall look.
Japanese Survivor
Masabumi Hosono was one of the survivors of the Titanic, he was a Japanese
civil servant and the only Japanese passenger on the ship. Sadly, after surviving the
ship’s sinking, he found himself condemned by the press, government, and the public
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Youngest Survivor
The youngest survivor was named Eliza Gladys “Millvina” Dean. She was only 2
months old when she and her family boarded the Titanic. After the ship struck the
iceberg, Millvina, her mother and her brother were placed on Lifeboat 10 and were
some of the first third-class passengers to escape. Her father, however, perish on the
ship.
After Millvina died at the age of 97 in 2009, she was cremated, and her ashes were
scattered from the Southampton docks from where the Titanic had set sail.
Ballard had actually been hired by the U.S. government for a top-secret mission
to use an underwater robot e’d invented to find two nuclear submarines that sank in the
1960s.
The Navy made a deal with him: Find the subs, and then we’ll fund an expedition to find
the Titanic. And that’s exactly what happened. He found the subs with 12 days left in his
Blaspheming God
One of the White Star Employee says that “Not even God himself could sink this ship.”
Many people says its an unsinkable ship because of its size and techonological
advancements and that was the primary reasons why it is called the Unsinkable Ship.
With what they called as an Unsinkable Ship before is now at the depths of the Atlantic
Ocean, for they believed that it would never sink even God himself.
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Conclusion
A disastrous event that happened in the history is much of a reflection that need
to change in these days, from safety procedures to maritime activity in ships to be more
safer and be more careful in travelling, thanks to the new technologies these days, more
likely it is so helpful to help in our environment and to all the people in the world.
From what to learn from the sinking of the Titanic, trying to blaspheming God is
one of a sin that you should never say. For God is the creator of all things and the king
of all kings. Reflecting on what to believe, all things in this world is temporary but God’s
As the reflection in life, from the Titanic, ignoring warnings and didn’t take heed
to icebergs. We too will perish if we ignore the urgency that Christ is coming soon. The
unsinkable boat in the New Testament is the one Jesus was in.
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References
Websites
https://www.discoveringireland.com/history-of-titanic/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/titanic
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Titanic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/topics/belfast_golden_age_shipbuilding
www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/titanic.php
https://twentytwowords.com/real-life-titanic-facts-the-movie-didnt-tell-you/
https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/2017/12/19/100-unsinkable-facts-
titanic/964485001/
https://www.ultimatetitanic.com/construction/
https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-titanic-lifeboats/
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