THE TITANIC

THE TITANIC

The Titanic was sent on her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. She was headed for New York.

Ache carried some 2208 passengers and crew. She also carried different class of people. First Classs, Second Class, and Third Class.

The speed of this passenger boat could travel up to 24 speed, or 26 miles per hour. To get to destination faster…

The Titanic was last seen at 2:45 A.M.

Sometime around 11:40 P.M. the people in the crows nest saw something ahead of her. And they had signaled the Bridge 3 different time to alert them. However the warning came a little too late. And they hit the iceberg.

The first officer came up when the warning signal was going on. Soon after that he had ordered to turn to the left very quickly.

The iceberg had made a good six holes in the ships right side. It was 299 feet long.

Thomas Andrews had then informed Captain Smith that the pumps could not handle all the water that was coming in. And this would buy them a little extra time. Meanwhile it was ordered to the crew to start untying the life boats. Since the Captain knew that the life boats could not save all the people on board he was worried. She took about 1500 lives with her.

The Carpathia arrived on the scene too late she was hoping to see the Titanic. But, all she saw was the people in the left boats. As daylight broke the “Carpathia” saw more life boats and she rescued the survivors.

The Titanic was owned by (White Star Line). And she was considered the largest passenger ship in the world. She was larger than her sister ship the “Olympia”.

The Titanic was considered the deadliest ship wreck in history.

They considered this boat unsinkable. It made the news around the world after the sinking.

The “Titanic” was 882 feet and 9 inches long, and 92 feet and 0 inches wide, 59 feet high. She weight in at 46,328 tons with no one on board. She had 3 propellers on her, with 29 boilers and 159 coal furnaces. Only # of the furnaces was working.

They had put in another 62 foot furnace to make her look more impressive.

She could carry up to 3547 passengers and crew.

The “Titanic” was called the ship of all ships. She was a luxury liner of her kind. She had an “on-board swimming pool, a gymnasium, a squash court, Turkish bath and a veranda café. For the first class passengers only.

The wood on the first class was very expensive, while the wood in the third class was made of teak.

The cost for a first class ticket at that time cost 4350 dollars. And if you take it and put the figures in 2008 it would cost you 95860 dollars.

The “Titantic had a total of 20 life boats.” Some of the life boats could hold up to 40 people. Some could hole up to 65 people, some of the other ones could hold up to 47 people each.

The Titanic was supposed to make her maiden voyage on April 1, 1912. But because of the severe weather she didn’t set for sail until April 15. When she left dock her waves had caused the (New York) to come within four feet from her. Because of this incident she was delayed again.

Then she went to France to pick up more passengers. Then she went to Ireland to pick up more people. But because of the dock being too narrow. They had to bring the passengers out to her.

One of the crew members had jumped ship and went back to Ireland because he had a funny feeling about sailing on this ship. He later went to sail on another ship.

There were a lot of potent people on board. Some of them were millionaires. Also aboard the ship was the director of (White Star Lines) J. Bruce Ismay and the ship builder (Thomas Andrews).

The night of April 14 the weather was near freezing.

Captain Smith hearing of the icebergs warnings had to change course some. That Sunday at 1:45 P.M. there was a warning to the steamer called (Amerika) that there was larger icebers in the area. And they were lying in the Titanic’s path.

The radio dispatchers didn’t heed the warnings. They were to alert the passengers of any dangers. Another report came in from the (Meseba). And they had to heed the message.

At 1:40 400 hundred miles South of New Foundland, they were talking to the people there.

They weren’t listening to the people who were warning them. What they were supposed to do was to relay messages to the passengers on board. Another report came in. This time it came in from the (Meseba)> When this came in they didn’t take warning of this either.

The two men in the crows nest had seen the iceberg ahead of them and then had rung the ship’s bell and telephoned the bridge and they were speaking sharply (ICEBERG STRAIGHT AHEAD) then the first officer (MURDOCH) gave an order (HARD0STARBOARD) which means turn to the left quickly. There are some conflicts with this also. He could of said (FULL REVERSE). The “Titanic” ran into the iiceberg. When this happened this woke up the captain of the ship. He had arrived on the bridge and ordered a (FULL STOP). Then he ordered to the crew to untie the life boats and get them ready for the passengers.

The wireless operators then started sending out distress signals. The ship that heard the distresss signals were the (MOUNT TEMPLE, FRANKFURT, and the OLYMPIC). Unfortunately none of the ships were close enough to rescue the “Titanic”. The closest ship was the (CARPATHIA) which was four hours away. And it still wouldn’t be there in time to rescue the ship. The only land wireless was CAPE RACE, NEW FOUNDLAND).

They could see the lights of an unknown ship and this still remains a mystery. And it was not responding to the distress signals. They were trying with Morse signal lights, but no one was responding. Then they were trying with rocket signals. And this ship was not responding. They had this ship to be the (Californian). But because of the icebergs they had stopped for the night. They also saw the lights in the distance. But Californian’s wireless were turned off for the night, so they heard no radio message. They would not be up till the morning.

The Titanic carried more boats than what the British Board of Trade Regulations. The number of bout was of gross tonnage than of what the passenger list was. And this still wasn’t enough.

Around 2:10 A.M. the back of the Titanic rose up to show the propellers. Around 2:17 the water had already filled of four of the decks, and started to fill the fifth deck. This made all things that weren’t bolted down fall into the water or fall to the front of the ship.

Some of the passengers were jumping off the boat in order to try to save themselves. They were trying to get to one of the life boats. But they had perished in the water because of the temperature of the air and the water temperature.

One of the funnels had bent and had fallen into the water killing some of the people on board the life boats.

Soon after this the electrical system had failed, leaving the sinking ship in the dark.

Soon after the stern broke from stress. And broke from the bow. As the ship sank in the water it fell into different sections. The bow of the boat sank about 200 feet below the water surface. While the stern fell violently to the ocean floor, the hull of the ship was turn apart by the air that was still inside her. The stern smashed when it hit bottom at great force, sinking deeply into the sand.

The (RMS CARPATHIA) had arrived at the sight where the TITANIC should have been and they started to pick up the survivors that they saw in life boats. Around 8:30 A.M. they saw more of the life boats of the sunken ship. And then headed for NEW YORK.

On April 18 the CARPATHIA pulled into NEW YORK’S harbor and unloaded the life boats. Then she went to another dock and unloaded the survivors of the ship.

As the news of the TITANIC’S sinking spread. Many people couldn’t figure out why she sank.

Many charities were set up for the families of the survivors of the sinking ship. Many of them were bread winners of the families. The third class people had lost everything that they had owned.

According to THE NEW HAMPSHIRE CHRONICLE there were about 1000 families affected.

The majority of the people died of hypothermia, either due to the weather or the freezing cold waters.

All of the passengers had since died, except for one and he just died this year on March 31, 2009. She was 98 years old. She was just nine weeks old when the TITANIC sank.

When the loss of life was made clear (THE WHITE STAR LINE) had charted a boat called (CS MACKEY-BENNETT) from Halifax, Nova Scotia to recover the bodies. There were also other boats involved with the recovering of the bodies. They all had embalming fluid on board, when they ran out of the embalming fluid they had to be buried at sea.

Some of the wreckage of the TITANIC was in negligence in responding to the TITANIC’S call for help. They also stated the fact that this ship couildn’t have been the (CALIFORNIAN) as you could see only the Morse lamp could be seen only for four miles away. Only the rockets would have been seen.

They have been considering on raising the TITANIC. But as of yet nothing has happened.

There were two men that had gone down in a submersible called (ALVIN) to find the exact location of the ship. They found the ship. It was two and a half miles down and 370 miles away South of (MISTAKEN POINT, NEW FOUNDLAND).

The bow and stern were not facing each other.
When the submersible went down to the TITANIC the bow was still under tension (meaning that there was still inside of her, and this was dangerous. And the decks were partially collapsed.

The stern section was much more damaged, and was ripped apart when it was going down.

Surrounding the ship were large sections of debris, such as wood, carpet, and human remains. That were eaten by sea organisms.

At this time they did not bring up any artifacts. Because this would have been called grave robbing. And they did not to disturb anything.

About 6000 artifacts have been recovered from the TITANIC, and is now sitting in a (NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM) in Grenwich, England. And is part of a traveling exhibit.

The current condition of the ship is not safe for divers. But, they still go down and collect items.

They are saying that the boat could be completely eaten up by micronisms in 50 years.

According to the submersible (PROMENADE DECK, THE MAST, WOODEN WHEEL, AND THE CROW’S NEST are completely destroyed.

In 1985 when the TITANIC was rediscovered. The problem of ownership was brought up. (PREMIER EXHIBITIONS INC.) was awarded with the ownership of the TITANIC and had all salvaging rights, according to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

They recovered a 17 ton of the hull of the TITANIC.

In 2009 the fate of the TITANIC’S artifacts will rest in the hand of the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT.

There is some speculation saying that if the TITANIC hit the iceberg head on that it would not have caused as much damage as it did. But, since she hit the iceberg on the side she sunk, since the water filled four compartments and started to fill the fifth compartment.

The sea was calm when she hit the iceberg. There wasn’t any wind for her to be blown off course. If there was any kind of wind you would have heard the waves hit the iceberg and she would’ve known to alter her course.

According to the BRITISH inquiry the cause of the sinking was due to excessive speed.

There’s been somewhat of a dispute (IT WAS SAID THAT ISMAY HAD ORDERED THE SHIP TO GO AT FULL FORCE AND IT WAS TOLD TO THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES TO MODERATE THE SPEED AROUND ICEBERGS).

There are many theories that might have lead to the TITANIC’S demise. They are:

A. Fire on board
B. Hitting an ice park instead of an iceberg
C. In the realm of the supernatural
D. A mummy’s curse

Contrary to all beliefs the TITANIC was never called the unsinkable ship.

This quote was made after the sinking of the TITANIC.

There was also a band on board. And it was playing while the boat was sinking to calm the passengers down.

There was also a dispute to what song they were playing as the ship went down.

Some people said the song was (NEARER MY GOD TO THEE) while others had said it was (AUTUMN)

There are books written about the TITANIC’S sinking. Also there are three movies about this also. They are:

A. A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
B. THE TITANIC
C. TITANIC

And all of them have a different story on how the ship sank. And I have seen all three of them.