How did the Titanic sink?

Answer 1

The RMS Titanic stuck an iceberg at approximately 11:40 in the night of April 14, 1912. The First Officer steered the ship away from the iceberg but he had reversed the engines in an attempt to maneuver around the iceberg ("port around" maneuver). Due to the combination of the ship's size, the limitations of the propellers when making such a maneuver, the the time it took for them to attempt it, it look much longer for it to port around the iceberg as opposed to just turning the ship and maintaining speed. When Titanic struck the iceberg, it buckled the plates, creating openings covering approximately 12 square feet.

Water then poured into the ships watertight compartments. It can remain afloat if four of the compartments are filled. Because the compartments are not sealed (ending below E Deck), the water filled then spilled over each compartment, going past those four compartments. As this took place, the front began to sink. Eventually this lifted the stern above the water, reaching an angle close to 45 degrees. The weight of the back half of the ship was too much to bear, so it split in two, sending the stern crashing into the water. A portion of the front half of the ship remained connected, so as it pulled the stern before breaking off, it caused the stern to go above the water again to a near-vertical angle. After a few minutes, it too sank into the water. The time from when Titanic first struck the iceberg to disappearing into the Atlantic took two hours and forty minutes.

Titanic sideswiped an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, 1912, and was badly damaged. The 882-foot (269-meter) long liner, whose eight decks rose to the height of an 11-story building, sank two hours and forty minutes later. Of the 2,227 passengers and crew, 705 escaped in 20 lifeboats and rafts; 1,522 drowned.

Famous as the greatest disaster in transatlantic shipping history, circumstances made the loss of life in the sinking of the Titanic exceptionally high. Although Capt. E. J. Smith was warned of icebergs in shipping lanes, he maintained his speed of 22 knots, and did not post additional lookouts. Later inquiries revealed that the liner Californian was only 20 miles (32 kilometers) away and could have helped, had its radio operator been on duty. The Titanic had an insufficient number of lifeboats, and those available for use were badly managed, with some leaving the boat only half full. The only ship responding to distress signals was the ancient Carpathia, which saved 705 people.
On April the 14th the Titanic hit a ice burg and it hit the bottom of the ship and the side, all the boilers where shut apart from one , this might of weak end its strength, and on APRIL 15TH the Titanic sank
too much water too fast! pumps weren't fast enough and there wasn't enough locking door chambers to seal or "contain the water"

Answer 2

The Titanic hit an iceberg, which put a large gash in its hull.