Transcript Slide 1

By Amanda Connell, Makenna Coe
Smith, Katie Rawson, and Bea
Casem
The Basics
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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
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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
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They began building the
ship in 1908
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On April 10, 1912 it left
for its first and only
voyage to the United
States
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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:
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Engine speed (Officer Murdoch)
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Better quality steel
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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?
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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