Was the Titanic built

Answer 1

No, the Titanic was NOT built safely.

It was advertised as being safe because its hull was divided into 'water-tight compartments'. Should one or two compartments be punctured, the steel doors would come down, keeping the water in that compartment and the ship afloat. There were pumps to pump out the sea water.

The 'should have been foreseen' problem was 1) that the ship could not float with more than two adjacent compartments full of seawater and 2) that the watertight compartments amidships did not go all the way to the top (the roof) of the topmost storage deck. The iceberg punctured a series of holes (or pushed in so many steel plates) along the side of the ship that filled up 3 watertight compartments. As they filled, the weight pulled down ship at the bow. That made the seawater spill into the 4th, 5th, etc. compartments, that were not watertight to the top.

There was also the quality of the steel. According to some experts now, the steel of the Titanic had more iron in it than quality steel should have had. I don't know if Harland and Wolff knew that when they built the ships. Olympic, Titanic's year older sister ship, would have had the same sort of steel, yet it survived into the 1920's. Perhaps that was because it was given a double skin instead of just a double bottom and watertight compartments that went up all the way after the Titanic sank.

So, the Titanic was built to the standard of other new ships in 1912, but it was not really a safely built ship.

Answer 2

The Titanic hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sank.

Yes that was the main thing that went wrong with the RMS Titanic, but the were sevral other things. Things like the iron rivets being to weak, the captain making a wrong turn and the Titanic going to fast in hope to break a record. But the main thing was the Titanic hitting the iceberg. It hit on the 14th of April 1912 at 11:40pm and sank four hours later. Taking the lives of 1,517 people.

Answer 3

Titanic was not built with a fatal flaw. Her rivets, altho containing a high amount of slag, were still above ordinary standards, as were her metal plates and double-hull.

Answer 4

No. Its design allowed for the flooding of only a limited number of compartments and only to a certain level. Anything beyond that would have resuted in its sinking (which did indeed occur).

Answer 5

no but they had not seen the ice berg when it had crashed causing the unsinkable ship to sink

Answer 6

Yes it was. It was built between March 31, 1909 and March 31, 1911.

Answer 7

Nope the Titanic was build perfectly fine it's just no one paid much attention and by the time the realized there was an iceberg it was too late

Answer 8

Structurally. the Titanic was state of the art at the time. The problems were human hubris and the belief that it was 'unsinkable'.

Answer 9

in the Mississippi river