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The R.M.S. Titanic was said to be unsinkable. This White Star liner was the biggest British ocean liner of its day. It set sail on April 10, 1912 and came to its resting place in the sea just four days later. Crucial events and decisions were made that resulted in the sinking of this great, unsinkable ship. Errors were made that cost many their lives. The sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic could have been prevented. First, communication errors resulted in Titanic’s fate. Titanic operators failed to relay iceberg telegraphs from other ships. The Titanic received numerous iceberg warnings throughout the day leading up to its final night. According to Susan Wels, author of Titanic: Legacy of the World’s Greatest Ocean Liner, Phillips, who was working …show more content…

The ship “carried sixteen wooden lifeboats and four collapsible boats” with “lifesaving capacity for 1,178 people” of the 3,547 on board. (Wels 27). Even though this seems like an obvious error, Titanic “surpassed lifeboat requirements by over 17 percent” (Wels 27). Out of all the passengers and crew members that were on the Titanic; “in the end, only 705 people would be rescued in lifeboats” (“Titanic: The Unsinkable” [4]). Numerous passengers did not even attempt to get into a lifeboat because they did not think it was a serious situation. Others did not get in the boats because wives did not want to leave husbands, and children did not want to leave fathers. In Gavin’s article “They Said it Couldn’t Sink”, she quotes “Several lifeboats launch[ed] that were between half and three-quarters full” …show more content…

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