Is it true that the titanic was an unsinkable ship?

Answer 1

Obviously not, as it sank.

It probably would have been unsinkable for the amount of damage that the engineers had considered.

But the damage it took from hitting the iceberg was bigger than imagined, and down it went.

Titanic had several different water tight compartment, and would have kept afloat with several of them flooded. But the damage filled more compartments than expected, which sank the ship.

Obviously not, since she sent 1517 people to their deaths when she sank on 15th April 1912. A number of the watertight compartments designed to make Titanic 'unsinkable' were breached along the ship's length during a collision with an iceberg. This scenario had been overlooked by the designers, and Titanic was somewhat foolishly claimed to be unsinkable.

Answer 2

The TITANIC hit an iceberg and it put a hole in the ships hull!

that is not right titanic could have lived if the captain of the ship stopped the ship if he did stop it then they would have missed it but he just kept on going and tried to turn so yes the titanic could have survived

Well, technically speaking no, it did not have to sink. The ship hit the iceberg full speed and damaged several watertight containers- only the word 'watertight' is a bit misleading.

I've heard that the tops of the watertight containers were open, just like cups. The Titanic could have stayed afloat with four of them breached and even with five, the Titanic could have easily stayed afloat well into the next day. But the problem laid at the location of the breach.

It was at the foremost of the ship. When the first container was filled, the water overflowed to the next cup; on and on just like domino's. This caused the bow to tip and so on.

The Titanic was going full steam. If they had just decreased the speed even if just by half, the Titanic wouldn't have taken on so much damage and water. They wouldn't have lost so many lifes... They may not have lost Titanic at all!

So the problem, technically speaking, was hubris- a case of extreme pride. They thought the Titanic wouldn't sink so they charged ahead into the unknown.

So, no the Titanic didn't have to sink.

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" ...'they' thought the Titanic wouldn't sink..." Who are 'they'. No-one who knows anything about ships, either as builders, owners or navigating officers, has ever claimed that for any ship. The "unsinkable" claim for the RMS Titanic arose from a newspaper journalist excitedly mis-quoting (wilfully or not) a much more cautious and reasoned comment in an engineering trade journal - written by people who understand engineering, for their professional peers. The original was something like. "... she should be practically unsinkable." A very different matter!

Answer 3

we don't know but it has been said in 2014 that they will go back in time to save it so fingers crossed

If you are imagining that the ship can somehow be raised from its resting place at the bottom of the North Atlantic, it is not possible. It is very badly damaged and resting on the bottom in two huge, separate chunks, and it is deteriorating constantly. It is already so fragile that no remaining structures could take any appreciable amount of stress, let alone the stress involved in raising her. She is not a fully intact ship resting peacefully on the bottom of the ocean, waiting to be put into service once again. No one is going back in time in 2014. She should and will remain where she is as a monument to those who died, and she will eventually deteriorate completely.

Answer 4

Yes the titanic was sinkable that is why it sunk. But at first before the ship left everyone thought that it couldn't sink

Answer 5

The Titanic broke in two and sunk.

Answer 6

Yes