Story of the Titanic (DK History)

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RMS Olympic on sea trials with collapsible, port side, alongside #1 funnel". Archived from the original on 6 January 2021 . Retrieved 24 November 2019.

Cain, Kathryn (January 2017). "Titanic tragedy caused by fire, not iceberg, claims journalist". News.com.au. The Sun. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018 . Retrieved 15 February 2018. From 11 April to local apparent noon the next day, Titanic covered 484 nautical miles (557mi; 896km); the following day, 519 nautical miles (597mi; 961km); and by noon on the final day of her voyage, 546 nautical miles (628mi; 1,011km). From then until the time of her sinking, she travelled another 258 nautical miles (297mi; 478km), averaging about 21 knots (24mph; 39km/h). [140] RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship up to that time. [a] It remains the deadliest peacetime sinking of an ocean liner or cruise ship. [4] The disaster drew public attention, spurred major changes in maritime safety regulations, and inspired many artistic works. Bartlett, W. B. (2011). Titanic : 9 Hours to Hell, the Survivors' Story. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4456-0482-4.

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Neither inquiry's findings listed negligence by IMM or the White Star Line as a factor. The American inquiry concluded that since those involved had followed standard practice, the disaster was an act of God. [215] The British inquiry concluded that Smith had followed long-standing practice that had not previously been shown to be unsafe, [216] noting that British ships alone had carried 3.5million passengers over the previous decade with the loss of just 10 lives, [217] and concluded that Smith had done "only that which other skilled men would have done in the same position". Lord Mersey did, however, find fault with the "extremely high speed (twenty-two knots) which was maintained" following numerous ice warnings, [218] noting that "what was a mistake in the case of the Titanic would without doubt be negligence in any similar case in the future". [216] On 23 April, the Daily Mail reported: "Late in the afternoon hope died out. The waiting crowds thinned, and silent men and women sought their homes. In the humbler homes of Southampton there is scarcely a family who has not lost a relative or friend. Children returning from school appreciated something of tragedy, and woeful little faces were turned to the darkened, fatherless homes." [196] Most of the bodies were numbered; however, the five passengers buried at sea by Carpathia went unnumbered. [246]

New Liner Titanic Hits an Iceberg; Sinking By the Bow at Midnight; Women Put Off in LIfeboats; Last Wireless at 12:27 am. Blurred". The New York Times. 15 April 2019. p.1. Archived from the original on 16 May 2019. Chernow, Ron (2010). The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-4465-2 . Retrieved 15 October 2020. Titanic had around 885 crew members on board for her maiden voyage. [106] Like other vessels of her time, she did not have a permanent crew, and the vast majority of crew members were casual workers who only came aboard the ship a few hours before she sailed from Southampton. [107] The process of signing up recruits had begun on 23 March and some had been sent to Belfast, where they served as a skeleton crew during Titanic 's sea trials and passage to England at the start of April. [108]Among the last items to be fitted on Titanic before the ship's launch were her two side anchors and one centre anchor. The anchors themselves were a challenge to make, with the centre anchor being the largest ever forged by hand and weighing nearly 16 tons. Twenty Clydesdale draught horses were needed to haul the centre anchor by wagon from the Noah Hingley & Sons Ltd forge shop in Netherton, near Dudley, United Kingdom to the Dudley railway station two miles away. From there it was shipped by rail to Fleetwood in Lancashire before being loaded aboard a ship and sent to Belfast. [87]

The way in which the Titanic sank brought to light serious design issues with the Olympic-class. This resulted in the Olympic receiving a major refit and major design changes for the construction of the Britannic. [222] Howells, Richard (1999). The Myth of the Titanic. United Kingdom: MacMillan Press. ISBN 978-0-333-72597-9.

TITANIC IN PERIL ON LEAVING PORT; Suction of Giant Liner Breaks Hawsers of the New York, Which Floats Helpless". The New York Times. 11 April 1912. p.1 . Retrieved 22 March 2022. The last Titanic body recovered was steward James McGrady, Body No. 330, found by the chartered Newfoundland sealing vessel Algerine on 22 May and buried at Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax on 12 June. [251]

The thing is, I loved the movie. It brought the ship to life! While other filmgoers may have been misty-eyed at the sweaty car bonking of Kate and Leo, I was more enthralled by the giant turbines in the engine room. A different sort of thrusting.Titanic 's owner J. P. Morgan was scheduled to travel on the maiden voyage but cancelled at the last minute. [119] Also aboard the ship were the White Star Line's managing director J. Bruce Ismay and Titanic 's designer Thomas Andrews†, who was on board to observe any problems and assess the general performance of the new ship. [120] Titanic | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". Unesco.org. Archived from the original on 7 October 2013 . Retrieved 2 October 2013. Did you know? Passengers traveling first class on Titanic were roughly 44 percent more likely to survive than other passengers.