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Yes the boat wasnt made to withstand that sort of impact and they didnt have good enough equipment to detect how big the iceberg was under water, they had also not thought the ship sinking was possible so didnt have even half enough life boats. Most of the people who died were working class Irish and English as their rooms were well below decks and quite overcrowed.

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When the Titanic hit the iceberg, it was not a 'head-on' type of collision, but rather a glancing blow. The impact was barely felt by many on board, but it sliced open a gash in part of the forward hull.

The actual reason why the ship (labelled 'unsinkable') sank was because the forward bulkheads had not been constructed high enough to contain the water in the event of just such an incident. The forward bulkheads filled with seawater, then overflowed into the next, and the next. The pumps were unable to keep up with the flow of the water into the ship. Finally, it became clear that it was impossible to save her. Had the forward bulkheads been constructed properly, the water would have been contained, and the ship able to limp into port.

The tragic loss of life, however, was clearly a result of an insufficient number of lifeboats on board. The ship sank slowly enough that all on board might have been saved if there had been enough lifeboats.

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