The RMS Titanic was the most luxurious and famous ship at her time, she began construction in 1909 in Belfast in Ireland🇮🇪. Over 3.000 Irish builders built her over a span of 26 months! She was designed by Thomas Andrews which designed her by Bruce Ismay’s Wishes, But Thomas Andrews Realised that the Titanic had to use Steel plates to finish the ship faster as the shipment time was shorter. Little did they know that the Steel Plates would be a Fatal (Deadly) Mistake…
Titanic under Construction ⬇️
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On the 31 of May 1911 the Titanic launched from Belfast, where she would then go to a port to be filled with furniture, beds, toilets, and 16 out of the 34 lifeboats needed. Thomas Andrews knew this, and was concerned but Bruce Ismay didn’t want the boat deck to look crowded and the Titanic was unsinkable anyways, Right??…
A Collapsible lifeboat on the morning of 15 of April 1912 ⬇️
Main and final Voyage
On the 10th of April 1912, the Titanic Boarded at Southampton in England, she would carry 2200 passengers 28 of which was Norwegian (About 20 died). There was a crowd of 100,000!!! people Saying goodbye to the ship as she would leave Southampton. She would the Stop at Cherbourg in France then Queenstown in Ireland before heading for the Atlantic Ocean where one silent night on the 14 of April she would meet her end (((Not so fun fact! : The titanic had a Coal fire in her Starboard side, meaning that the boiler workers had to move coal to the Port side giving her a -3 degree list to port side, the fire would also weaken the Starboard side’s structure which would unluckily be the side the iceberg hit…)))
Titanic after her test drive in Southampton ⬇️
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A Night To Remember
On the 14th of April 1912 the Titanic was about halfway through her journey to New York. She had recently received ice warnings through the day, but captain J. Smith ordered Full Speed, he wanted to show that he was fearless. He knew the Titanic had a too small rear so she was slow at turning, also the lookouts didn’t have binoculars as the officer in charge of those forgot them in Southampton. Later that night at 11.40 PM the lookouts spotted something fishy..
The famous Iceberg scene from Titanic 1997⬇️
The iceberg scrapes the steel on the side of the ship, and this is where the mistakes comes in. The steel becomes weaker in cold water, allowing the iceberg to scrape the hull. And the coal fire also lets the ice Rip trough Boiler room 1. A few minutes later, Andrews and the Captain assess the damage then Andrews says “The ship can withstand 4 compartments flooded, but not five, the ship will have 1 hour to live, two at most…” A critical design fail would also lead the ship to its death because if the ship gets a head list of 5 compartments, water will spill over the watertight bulkheads using E deck, and then it will spill again and again and again
Here it shows the spill effect⬇️
Thomas Andrews knows that over half of the ship’s passengers will not get on a boat, and will end up in the freezing water, he suggests an emergency evacuation of the vessel which soon starts. The passengers would be given life vests, and the band would start to play to calm the passengers. Meanwhile the officers and crew work hard to get the lifeboats ready, on deck confusion starts to spread as loud sound of Steam being vented out of the funnels, then the Captain orders “Women and children into the boats!” Water is filling the F deck at this time and a CQD (((SOS in ship language)) is ordered, the the Morse operators get contact with the Carpathia which can arrive in 4 hours. The first lifeboats are lowered by inexperienced crew, making the trip down rather chaotic. The passengers was quite calm because they hadn’t been able to notice the flooding, but the ones in the boats saw other things, the bow was already halfway underwater.. 3rd class passengers had been waiting to get to the deck, as Workers had shut Metal gates to keep them out. As this happens their cabins flood and rats run everywhere. Panic would break out as people would trying to break the fence with their shoulders, hands, feet and loose benches. On deck the crew would shoot up distress rockets.
How the ship looked at 00:30 AM⬇️
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Now Lifeboats were leaving fast, but only half filled. This left more people on the ship to die. As the boats start to disappear one by one more people start to rush for boats just as the bow goes under. Captain Smith would try to order boats back to be fully loaded, but the officers on the boats would just keep rowing away. Things started to get desperate as the collapsible boats had to be taken down from the roof next to the 1st funnel BUT the winches for the boats was way forward in the bow of the ship, which was many meters underwater by now, so the crew used oars to slide the boats down, but as you could probably guess, that went very and I mean VERY wrong the oars was at a very steep angle, meaning that the boats just fell down instead, and the one boats that actually went down the oars, also fell cause the oars snapped, flipping the boat and actually trapping officer Lightoller under it (( he would come up from the boat after and survive the sinking, he would live until 1954))the water was coming close to flowing over the little wall/railing at the bridge, but it didn’t matter as suddenly a Beam of water shot up the Stairs next to the bridge, letting the water flow over the railing making a sort of wave come fast towards the boats, and soon people realised that these were one of the only boats left so they rushed to the boats. One boat had not been cut loose from the ship and was being pulled down but many passengers had pocket knives and started cutting the ropes, But the boat was also taking on water as a little hole used to empty rainwater from the lifeboats wasn’t shut, there was nothing better on the other side as the other boat was flipped, and people were balancing on the flipped boat
Here is the flipped collapsible 6 lifeboat in the 1997 titanic movie ⬇️
While the chaos around the lifeboats continues the first funnel stands next to them, but not for long as many tons of water crushes it’s base and it’s safety wires snap, she falls crushing many people swimming in front of the funnel.
Another clip form the Titanic movie 1997 ⬇️
Now the ship sinks fast and the last boats leave, the grand Staircase floods and people rush for the aft of the ship, the people inside the ship will most likely never get out as the ship has a tilt of many degrees and the ship floods so fast that you can’t even run from the water, now the power of the ship starts to dwindle and the titanic is putting up her last fight. The propellers rise from the air, and it is now unsafe to jump from the aft into the water cause ur life vest would shoot up in your neck and CRACK (Pls don’t take this down Kent I’ve spent 3 hours) The aft rises many tens of metres above the water and loud rumbles from the ship structure is heard (Steel pipes, beams, plates failing) soon the Flor starts to break and the ship snaps in half
The aft falls down in the water to its Normal angle but it’s still fastened to the bow, which is dropping like a stone, pulling the aft into the air and then down people hang on with their lives to anything, and if you slip you fall on other people or railings and such, the ship is going down fast and your only hope was to hold on..
You guessed it More 1997 Titanic⬇️
Now you have 1500 people in the freezing water doing what they can to survive, only 5 out of the 1500 people in the water was saved by 1 boat that returned, 1 out of 16 boats!! As most of the others was X_X. On the 15 of April 1912 at 02:40 the water becomes silent and the lifeboats could only wait for Carpathia and to arrive
Do I even have to say it? ⬇️
Thanks for reading !!
By Sverre
