Transcript Slide 1
By Amanda Connell, Makenna Coe
Smith, Katie Rawson, and Bea
Casem
The Basics
The Titanic was 882 ft. and 9
in. long.
It sat 190ft above the
surface of the water
It was built by 4 different
companies
It cost $7.5 million
For the first voyage there
were 2,207 passengers
aboard
Safety Equipment
14 Wooden life boats
Carried 60 people
each
2 Wooden cutter
Carried 40 people
each
4 collapsible boats
Carried 47 people
each
Total of Spots = 1178
The Titanic
They began building the
ship in 1908
On April 10, 1912 it left
for its first and only
voyage to the United
States
By the morning of April
15th the Titanic had
suck
The Crash
April 14th 11:40 pm – Titanic hit
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iceberg
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Six forward compartments were
ruptured making total damaged area
1.171 meters squared
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April 15th 2:20 am- Flooding of these
compartments caused ship to sink
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706 passengers were rescued
o1,500
passengers lost their lives
The Steel
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Steel plates from the hull = 1.875 cm thick
Steel plates from bulkhead = 1.25 cm thick
Expedition in 1996, researchers brought back steel for metallurgical analysis
Low nitrogen content means steel was brittle at low temperatures
Seawater at time of collision was -2 degrees C
Made of best plain carbon ship plate of time, but would not be suitable now
How the sinking could have
been prevented:
Engine speed (Officer Murdoch)
Better quality steel
Warning-radar, iceberg patrol, etc.
Modern Procedures
Similar structural safety design (hull
divisions
Execution changed
Materials Engineers-computer
modeling to determine stress capacity
Advanced technology allows better
warning, safety
Whose fault?
Captain Smith: the Capitan of the Titanic
The Shipbuilders
Bruce Ismay: the Managing Director of the
White Star Line
Thomas Andrew: The Ship Arcitect
Capitan Lord: Capitan of the Californian, a ship
that was near by and sent out the iceberg
warning.
Conclusion
Major
engineering failure
Hundreds
Taught
lost
importance of safety