Unsinkable Essay

“Even God could not sink her,” it was bragged. The Titanic was the fastest and the biggest ship in the world. It was also considered to be the most beautiful and unsinkable. Then on April 14, 1912, occurred the most remarkable ship catastrophe of the historical 100 years. The Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg and sank with a loss of 1500 people. The Titanic’s captain, Captain Edward J. Smith, played a bewildering role in this catastrophe.…

In the play “Inspector Calls” Sheila is a truthful and honest person and changes from the beginning and throughout the play. “Millward’s, I’ll go there,” this acknowledges that Sheila had been to Millwards. This shows us that “Recognises with a little cry” this confirms that Sheila knew Eva. When Sheila started to cry, it was very obvious that Sheila had done something wrong to Eva. The Inspector makes Sheila spill everything out and tell the truth. Sheila is the second one to admit to her…

The passengers aboard the RMS Titanic were about 2,223 people who sailed on the maiden voyage. They sailed from Southampton to New York City. With many great deaths that occurred on this “unsinkable ship”, many authors used this event as a background for a great story, but were the details of the event accurately portrayed? When writing Dangerous Waters, it is clear that Gregory Mone did his research and showed the event accurately. The book Dangerous Waters by Gregory Mone was a heart…

According to the engineers that designed and built the Titanic, it was unsinkable. The people involved in the building of the Titanic became too cocky, believing that if they said it was unsinkable, then it would be. They ignored the precautions that were told to make sure that there was an equal amount of space on the life boats as there were people on the ship, just in case the ship…

hardly credit the idea of the Titanic being in a sinking condition. She is the most completely equipped with water-tight compartments and the most strongly built liner on the high seas.” Due to this conflict between the representation of the ship as unsinkable and the epitome of luxury the contrasting depiction of its disastrous fate created at the time of 1912, a metaphor for divine judgment. The Titanic was seen as representative of the greed, pride and luxury of man; and this perspective of…

During the construction of the Titanic the planning team implemented several safety features in order to prevent any incidences from occurring. The first feature of the Titanic is the lifeboats which is the most important feature of the Titanic as the lifeboats would be the only escape route of the ship if a fire were to start or if it started sinking. The ship had been built to equip 64 lifeboats however there was only 20 lifeboats on the ship and each boat could carry up to 65 people…

“Icebergs loomed up and fell astern and we never slackened. It was an anxious time with the Titanic's fateful experience very close in our minds.” (Captain Arthur H Rostron, Commander of the Carpathia). Taking place in the North Atlantic Ocean the sinking of the Titanic on April 14-15th, 1912 was a very terrifying day for Captain Edward J. Smith along with 2,200 passengers and crew. In the life boat, recalled Dorothy Gibson, “No one said a word. There was nothing to say and nothing we could…

The R.M.S. Titanic April 12, 1912 at 12:00 the so called “Unsinkable R.M.S Titanic” is now 12,500 feet down resting on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. There were 2,208 people boarding on the ship but only 706 people survived, that is only 706 people who actually came back to their beloved home. Who is actually responsible for her first and last voyage? Without a doubt Historians believe that one reason that the Titanic sank was because of human error. Historians on www.historians.net blame…

On May 17, 1915, after a transatlantic journey from New York City and nearly within sight of its destination of Liverpool, England, the Lusitania was attacked by a German submarine and sunk in less than 20 minutes. This ship was considered to be unsinkable. Despite an announcement from the German embassy on May 1, 1915, stating a warning that commercial vessels were vulnerable to attack in waters encompassed in the war zone, no one paid much attention. Out of about 2,000 passengers aboard, only…

could of done the sinking of the Titanic because he forced captain smith to speed the boat up. Since Bruce Ismay forced Captain Smith to speed up the boat, maybe Bruce Ismay thought that they could go right through the iceberg because the ship was unsinkable supposedly. At the time Captain Smith could of ignored him and slowed down the ship so they had less of a chance they would hit an iceberg. If Captain Smith would’ve ignored Bruce Ismay captain smith would of slowing down the ship and it…