Titanic
By: Kristen Bennett
1907
Bruce Ismay – build 3 luxurious ships
William Pirrie had a shipyard: Harland and Wolff
He created the designs:
Olympic
Gigantic
Titanic
Construction started in 1907
Belfast, Ireland
Construction
“Sister ships”
14000 workers
1 year to build Titanic skeleton
Olympic completed first
Titanic parts helped repair Olympic
“Practically Unsinkable”
Pirrie and Ismay never said “unsinkable”
The ship builder magazine did
Watertight doors
Watertight bulkheads
Titanic’s Layout
Luxuries
Grand Staircase
1st Class Suite
Main Men
William Murdoch
E.J. Smith
Chief Designers
Alexander Carlisle
Thomas Andrews
Francis Caruthers
Worked for the Board of Trade
Had to “OK” the ship on safety regulations
Started checking during construction
Nearly 2000 times
Took 850 miles to stop from going full speed
Only required to have 16 lifeboats - enough for half the passengers
Launch Day
April 10th 1912, Titanic left Southampton, England.
Cherbourg, France
Queenstown, Ireland
New York
Phillips and Bride
Received and sent telegrams for passengers
12th and 14th – 8 telegrams about ice
6 messages – 18 miles of ice
Gave warnings to captain at their convenience
Californian
Captain Lord’s ship
Everyone asleep
Completely stopped
April 12th, 11:40pm
Captain asleep: Murdoch in charge
No binoculars
Blackberg
Andrews “sounded the ship”
Ismay wanted to keep going
Andrews, Smith, Murdoch and Ismay
Problems
Smith ordered watertight doors shut
Re-opened to try to pump water out
No sound system
Many passengers didn’t want to get off the ship
Took 45 min to start loading boats
Lifeboats built for 60 full-grown men
1st few only 1/3 or ½ full with passengers
April 15th, 2:20am
Titanic sank
The water was 28 F.
Only survive 20-30 min (maybe)
4 saved from the water
705 lives saved
Carpathia picked up people in lifeboats
1502 died
People on land trying to figure out what happened
New Safety Rules
Days after Carpathia arrived, there was an inquiry in New York
Questioned the survivors
Rules made immediately:
lifeboats for every passenger
wireless communicators 24/7
Other changes:
lifeboat drill within 24 hours of departure
Need binoculars
Shipping route was moved further south
Aftermath
Mackay-Bennett picked up dead bodies – April 18th from Nova scotia
Found 356 Bodies
Discovered in 1985 by Robert Ballard
Had 2 searches
Found out new facts about Titanic – still are
One of the greatest mysteries of all time