The Titanic Research Paper

The Titanic one of the greatest ships ever built in the 1900’s it was supposed to be unsinkable; People even said God couldn’t sink it himself. But on its first journey it became a tragedy for all the people that were on it. “Four days into its journey, at 11:40 P.M. on the night of April 14, she struck an iceberg (Boness).” It was a very big tragedy everyone went from having a good time to begging for help. If the crew would have listened to the iceberg warnings they would have been able to avoid the tragedy. The tragedy of the Titanic was caused by material failures, design flaws, and mishaps of the crew. Material failures on the Titanic were one of the reasons it sank .The rivets in it were way to weak, scientist argued for centuries that they would hold up, but with a ship that big you would have to have a lot to hold it up but would that be enough? There were around 3 million rivets on the Titanic; they were stuck together like glue to hold the ship up. The ship was supposed to be unsinkable, but the rivets in it were so weak that as soon as it hit the iceberg they just gave away and couldn’t hold the water back. The ship was hit in the bow where the weakest rivets were and where they started to become iron. Scientist say that if it would have had better rivets the ship …show more content…
The man in the control room wasn’t paying attention to them either. By the time they started to listen to them it was too late. The tragedy could have been avoided if they would have listened. One of the messages said “Amerika passed two large icebergs 41 27 N, 50 8 W, on April 14th.”(Titanic-Titanic) When the radios brought the messages to the captain he just said to leave him alone he would worry about it later. Once the ships had hit the iceberg they saw a ships about 5 miles away. They tried to send it mores code by a light but it didn’t work, the mystery ship just started to