Sinking Of The Titanic Essay
Many things happend and many mistakes were made to cause the catastrophic event of the Titanic and everyone wants to know how and why it sank. In 1908-1909 The construction of the Titanic begins in Belfast, Ireland, 1911 The hull of the Titanic is successfully launched. Sixteen wooden lifeboats are fitted on board the Titanic. Passengers arrive in Southampton and board ship. The Titanic casts off and begins her maiden voyage The Titanic sails through calm waters. The lookouts see an iceberg dead ahead.The iceberg strikes the Titanic on the starboard side of her bow. Now water has poured in and risen 14 feet in the front part of the ship. the captain is told the ship can only stay afloat for two more hours. He gives orders to call for
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If the rivets had been steel i could have stopped the water from flooding in five compartments and the Titanic would have slowed sinking with enough time for the Carpathia to get there and help. When you think about the Titanic you’d think that it wouldn't just be the rivets right? Well, many people made mistakes too. Like Philip who told the Californa to leave him alone when they were the closest ship only two hours away when they turned of their wireless because of that it would have been easy for them to help when the Titanic had the collision. He also ignored a note to the captain that had no MSG on it saying there was a huge iceberg that went offcourse. There was also an officer named Blair who was asked to leave the ship, accidentally he took the key to the locker which held the binoculars. If Blair had not taken the key the lookout would have more than likely seen the iceberg that sunk the Titanic with enough time to move out of the way. The captain was also in the wrong place at the wrong time when Philip got an important MSG from another ship that the iceberg was dead ahead of them. There were definitely not enough lifeboats on the Titanic especially with thousands of people on the ship thought to be unsinkable. The usage of the lifeboats were also bad with being able to carry 64 and only 28 were
If the rivets had been steel i could have stopped the water from flooding in five compartments and the Titanic would have slowed sinking with enough time for the Carpathia to get there and help. When you think about the Titanic you’d think that it wouldn't just be the rivets right? Well, many people made mistakes too. Like Philip who told the Californa to leave him alone when they were the closest ship only two hours away when they turned of their wireless because of that it would have been easy for them to help when the Titanic had the collision. He also ignored a note to the captain that had no MSG on it saying there was a huge iceberg that went offcourse. There was also an officer named Blair who was asked to leave the ship, accidentally he took the key to the locker which held the binoculars. If Blair had not taken the key the lookout would have more than likely seen the iceberg that sunk the Titanic with enough time to move out of the way. The captain was also in the wrong place at the wrong time when Philip got an important MSG from another ship that the iceberg was dead ahead of them. There were definitely not enough lifeboats on the Titanic especially with thousands of people on the ship thought to be unsinkable. The usage of the lifeboats were also bad with being able to carry 64 and only 28 were