White Star Line

Confidence in the steamers, both for business and tourist travel soon gathered. New companies have been made such as The Cunard Line (1840) The Hamburg America Line (1847) The White Star Line (1845) One of the most important English engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) He designed three great steamships “The Great Western” in 1836, “The Great Britain” in 1843 and the last “ The Great…

"There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers," said Vice-President of White Star Line, Phillip Franklin. What was the Titanic? Why was it special? What actually happened the night the “unsinkable ship” sank? Was it anyone’s fault in particular? All these questions are not as simple as they appear to be. Since there were no airplanes in the 1900s, and a lot of immigrants, ships were a popular source of…

I have chosen to write about Titanic. I would like to find out what actually happened and why. First am I going to find out what Titanic is, how many or what was aboard, what happened to it, what went wrong and why did it all happen. 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…

The Royal Mail Steamer Titanic was the product of intense competition among rival shipping lines in the first half of the 20th century . On May 31, 1911, Titanic’s immense hull–at the time, the largest movable manmade object in the world–made its way down the slipways and into the River Lagan In Belfast. According to some hypothesis, the Titanic was doomed from the start by the design so many lauded as state-of-the-art. Titanic created quite a stir when it departed for its maiden voyage from…

testified at the British Enquiry into the sinking. Lastly, Charles Herbert Lightoller survived and rescued letter by the Carpathia. These were only a few people but there were many others. The Titanic Life The Titanic was made by The British White Star Line. They called it “The world's safest liner”. The Titanic included theater, assortment…

When a disaster happens different people have different experiences and perceptions on how it happened in “A Night to Remember” we are introduced into different perceptions of the titanic hitting an iceberg. This a story about the sinking of the titanic. The author use different perceptions of the incident to give more depth to the feeling the passengers had when they hit something The author did this to make a broader explanation of how it felt when the titanic struck the iceberg. One of…

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 night The Titanic sank. There were 2228 people on board of the Titanic, 337 in first class, 285 second class, 721 in third class…

enthralls us (Hutchings). The idea for the Titanic, a passenger liner that would epitomize luxury and be bigger than any other liner, was born out a collaboration by Bruce Ismay, chairman of White Star Line and J.P. Morgan, American financier. It was to be part of the “Olympic” class of liners; the White Star Line’s answer…

people. Captain Edward Smith claimed “I have never been in any accident… or any sort worth speaking about (1912 Facts about Titanic pg.49).” Prior to Smith’s statement he had been in several incidents, and two more after his statement. Smith was White Star Lines senior captain and for that reason he got to be the captain of each of their new ships. The Titanic had a close encounter right as they were setting out for sea; due to the low tide and motion of the Titanic a surge of water cause the…

After losing sight of the Titanic, the survivors in the lifeboat had no where to look to. They were scattered throughout the vast Atlantic without much to help them. At about three in the morning, faint lights were seen by the survivors. Curious to see what the source of those lights were, they discovered that it was a ship, the Carpathia. Coming to their rescue, the Carpathia was responding to the last calls of help it received from the Titanic and was saving all the boats it spotted in the…