The Titanic Research Paper

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Dylan Grubbs
Oceanography
Mrs. Sullivan
03/13/2017
The Titanic The RMS Titanic was an extremely well-known British passenger liner that was created on March 31st, 1912. Construction on the British passenger liner started on March 31st 1909, so it took exactly three years to create the Titanic (loc.gov). The RMS Titanic was captained by Edward Smith, who served as master to many White Star Line vessels (wikipedia.com). He had numerous amounts of successful voyages and was full of experience going into the Titanics’ voyage. He was more than qualified, he was perfect for the job. At the time, the Titanic would be the largest passenger vessel to sail the open sea and while doing so, making the longest voyage. The Titanic set its first …show more content…

At 11:40 pm while sailing at night in the pitch black, the Titanic hit an extremely large ice glacier that damaged the side of the boat and the boat started to leak water (titanicfacts.net). The ice glacier had been spotted and reported around 11:39 pm, but by then it was far too late to avoid it. From the point that the Titanic hit the glacier to the point the the boat was completely under water was a total of 2 hours and 40 minutes. A lot of people claim that the Titanic was built to be “unsinkable”. It was built with a double layered bottom, so the if for any reason at all they happened to hit something hard enough to damage the first layer, there would be a second layer to keep the large passenger liner from sinking. However, nobody had thought that there was a possibility that the boat would be struck higher than the bottom two layers. When the RMS Titanic struck the glacier, it had produced a large hole that was above the bottom of the boat where the two layers were created for safety. Because of this, the Titanic slowly started to leak water all throughout the boat and the Titanic would reach its final destination (sampson.washcoll.edu). The Titanic then began to sink from the front end down. Almost immediately, passengers were awaken by the sound and strange movement of the large passenger liner. Many of the ship's staff rushed down the halls and yelled for people to wake up to get them to higher levels of the ship before it was too late. Many had been worried about why they were waking up in such an odd time, others found out about what had happened and started to help out however they

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