In Titanic when the ship is sinking, Mr Andrews changes the time on the clock to his estimate for when the ship will fully sink am. John Priest survived no fewer than four ships that went to the bottom, including Titanic and its sister ship Britannic. The wreck of the Titanic has lain at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland since April , when it hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City.
Of the 2, passengers and crew on board, more than 1, died. The Hartley violin is one of the most requested artifacts that visitors want to see. Wallace Hartley, the bandleader on the Titanic, played the violin to passengers as the ship sank in No account was made for advances in scale and little thought was given to how a ship, feet in length, might turn in an emergency or avoid collision with an iceberg.
This was Titanic's Achilles heel. Oceanic's dining saloon. The room, with its domed ceiling, one of the finest ever created for a ocean liner, was designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
White Star had given up all thought of speed records more than a decade before, in , with the introduction of Oceanic, a ship given the title 'Crowning Glory of the 19th Century'. White Star could not afford to lavish the same expense on their new ship Titanic, which was much larger than Oceanic.
Titanic, nevertheless, was a fine, well-built vessel, with large public rooms and finely-appointed suites for those travelling in first class. However, there were many other ocean liners built in Britain, France and Germany which were technically superior and had stunning interiors.
Speed plays a major part in the continuing story of Titanic. It is often said she was trying to make a record on her maiden voyage, attempting to arrive ahead of schedule in New York.
Not true. Not all of Titanic's boilers had been lit and besides this she was sailing on the longer southern route across the Atlantic in order to avoid the very threat which caused her eventual loss. Even if all boilers had been lit, her maximum speed was 21 knots, a far cry from the 26 knots the Cunarders regularly recorded.
Titanic did not attempt a full speed crossing because of the risk of potential engine damage, and her passengers would have been inconvenienced by arriving a day before their hotel or train bookings. At the age of 39 he was also president of the International Mercantile Marine Company, a giant combine and owner-operator of several transatlantic business, at the head of which was White Star.
The myths surrounding Ismay are many but almost all centre on allegations of his cowardice in escaping the sinking ship whilst fellow passengers, notably women and children, were left to fend for themselves. The claims made at the time and repeated today were that he 'saved his own skin' whilst others died. In reality Ismay helped with loading and lowering several lifeboats and acquitted himself better than many of the crew and passengers. He only entered a lifeboat when it was actually being lowered and no other passengers were in the vicinity.
Some witnesses stated he was ordered into the lifeboat but, whatever happened, Lord Mersey said at the British enquiry into the loss of Titanic, 'Had he not jumped in he would simply have added one more life, namely his own, to the number of those lost'. Ismay's fault was that he survived and as a consequence laid himself open to the high and somewhat dubious moral code of the US press.
Marlene Dotterer Member. I agree with Sam. In the end, the captain has the responsibility. Even so, Captain Smith is really only responsible for his part of it. This is something I've thought about a lot, because it came up in my book about Thomas Andrews which, alas, has STILL not found a publisher, but it's ever vigilant in looking. I have a scene, during the building of the Titanic, at a time when several men died in shipyard accidents.
Without going back to my notes, I think it was in , over a space of 3 or 4 months, at least 4 people died. In my book, Tom Andrews has met time travelers from our century and he knows what happens to his ship. He's trying to prevent it. But with all these deaths, he confronts one of the time travelers if you'll permit me to quote from my own book : "Three this month, four in just two months.
That has to mentioned somewhere. Did you know these people were going to die, Sam? This is not all just about me. It's not all about the sinking. People die, Sam, building these ships. If you know these things, you have to tell me. We have to stop everything we can. No door handle on Apollo The 0-rings on Challenger. The shielding on Columbia. We know these things need attention, but it's easier to let it slide. Maybe it costs too much to fix it.
Maybe it will set the schedule back for a year if we bring it up. But I think it's human nature to put things off until we are forced to deal with it. It's possible no one thought of it. I've heard that Titanic sank because of a lack of imagination - no one could envision the circumstances that would bring her down. Yet all the signs were there, weren't they? Myar Jones Guest. When ever it comes to man made objects,you are taking a risk,including Titanic.
However, the compartments did not reach as high as they should have done. The White Star Line did not want them to go all the way up because this would have reduced living space in first class.
The final iceberg warning sent to Titanic was from the Californian. Captained by Stanley Lord, she had stopped for the night about 19 miles north of Titanic.
At around Sometime after midnight the crew on watch reported seeing rockets being fired into the sky from a big liner. Captain Lord was informed but it was concluded that the ship was having a party. No action was taken by the Californian. If the Californian had turned on the radio she would have heard the distress messages from Titanic and would have been able to reach the ship in time to save all passengers. Both America and Britain held inquiries into the disaster.
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