Passenger ship

Then I will found out some more about the ship – where was it going, how old was it, why they built it and why it was such a popular ship? Titanic Titanic was a British passenger liner, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. It was one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. Titanic’s originally name is RMS Titanic. RMS stands for Royal Mail Steamer. Titanic, the largest ship afloat at the time it entered…

England. There was 2,240 passengers, that’s including crew. The 2 hours and 40 minutes before the Titanic sank most of those people became cowards, selfish, and only cared about the themselves and their family. The Titanic was a giant ship, and according to the article Sinking of the Titanic the ship was 882 feet long, 92 feet wide, 104 feet high, and weighed 46,328 tons. The Titanic could hold 3,547 passengers that is including crew, but on its travel to New York there was 2,240 passengers and…

A beautiful tragedy… in April of 1912 The Titanic sunk in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Nobody knew it was going to be some of their last nights with their loved ones, or the last night they would enjoy the company of an acquaintance they may have come across on their trip on the fateful Titanic. “Not Even God himself Could Sink this Ship” says an Employee of the White Star Line. Passengers and crew members, music, and art work all went down and were forever lost that sad, unfortunate…

The Titanic!! From Antonine Marie Mallet’s Point of view (1887-1974) Once, there was a ship, a very BIG ship, and it, was called, the TITANIC! The Titanic was one of the most famous boats out there, with a whopping 2,228 passengers! But, what they did not know, there was an iceberg, ready to STRIKE the Titanic! There were 2,228 people on the Titanic, but only an estimation of 705 people, made it out alive! But there is only one survivor we will look at today… Antonine Marie Mallet! She was…

popularly called as the "Unsinkable ship" with the tagline "Not even God can sink this ship". Unfortunately, this gigantic ship was engulfed by the ocean on her maiden voyage killing 1,517 people. With the movie Titanic, made in 1997, James Cameroon was extolled for his great depiction of the facts. Later investigations contradicted Cameroon in many aspects. What happened to this Unsinkable ship? Let us move to the true bottom. The three sisters White Star line, inorder to dominate the…

Now, they had almost 3 hours to think of what they were going to do and to go through with their plans. Yes, people were freaking out, but they had enough time to think through everything and calm down enough to think straight. Even if they had enough time to think through everything, they still didn’t have enough lifeboats to save everyone. Modern cruise ships carry around 18 lifeboats, each being able to carry around 370. The Titanic had 20 lifeboats that were able to carry around 70 people.…

British passenger ship that sank after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton (United Kingdom) to New York City, in April 1912. Titanic was at the time the largest ship ever built and was considered to be unsinkable. The tragedy claimed the lives of over 1,500 people. Many factors contributed to the catastrophe: removing half the amount of lifeboats originally planned for the ship, and cruising in high speed in an iceberg-prone environment. As for the engineering point of view:…

iceberg; however, it was not little. After the ship hit the iceberg, Captain E. J. Smith ordered all of the lifeboats to be uncovered and to send wireless messages for help. Water was coming in through the gash the iceberg made on the bottom starboard, or the right side of the ship. The upper class did not pay any attention to the hit. However, the lower classes felt the impact of the iceberg and the ship. As the captain ordered the lifeboats to be uncovered, he called down to the engine room to…

The Titanic was the dream ship that was thought to be completely unsinkable, but did not take the safety of the passengers into deep enough consideration. They neglected safety standards and procedures which proved to be the cause of death of many of the passengers on board. On the early morning of April 15th, 1912, that passenger filled ship collided with an iceberg causing over 2,200 passengers to struggle to survive through hypothermia, drowning, lifeboat scarcity, and other conditions that…

given freely by survivors of the ship, there was a movie based on it and a documentary but there are still so many questions that are left with no explanations. One thing we do know for sure, it was the first global disaster for mankind. Victims from North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and even Africa, not even the plague in the middle Ages reached so many corners of the world. The Titanic’s tragic incident changed sea travel forever and for the better. For starters the lifeboats…