What were the reasons of the titanic sinking?

Answer 1

here are all the answers that I know: 1. the captain ignoring so many ice warnings and keeping the ship's speed at 22 knots. 2. the night being absolutely moonless thus making it completely dark 3. the sea being so calm that there were no waves to break over the berg. 4. the officer in charge on the bridge reversing the engines which made the possibility of collision far more likely. it is said that if he had let the engines be (not that he's responsible for the disaster in any way), the ship would've turned much more quickly 5. mix up of binoculars back in England thus the lookouts in the crow's nest had to work without them 6. the iceberg opening up five of the first water-tight compartments when the ship was designed to stay afloat with no more than four flooded with the bulkheads not going up the ship far enough (only to E deck). that's really all I can remember. if anyone has anymore info, be my guest and post them

Answer 2

1)Iceberg.

2.) Traveling way to fast in ice-filled waters.

3.) During sea trials, David Blair was sixth officer, and when Smith recruited Henry Wilde, who became chief officer, causing the other officers positions to be bumped down, and Blair was asked to leave the ship. In his haste to leave, he packed and left with the keys to the ship's locker holding the lookouts' binoculars, and the lookouts had to trust their own eyesight.

4.) There was a fire in boiler room six that warped and made the iron weaker.

5.) Several ice warnings were not delivered to the bridge because the ships sending them didn't denote all of them as urgent.

6.) The rivets could not handle the tremendous pressure from the iceberg.

7.) When the water started coming in, the bulkheads did not extend all the way up, so when a watertight compartment filled up, the water spilled over into the next.

8.) First Officer William Murdoch gave the order to port round the iceberg: (Hard to starboard; full astern) by stopping and reversing the engines and having the propellers spin in reverse. This made the ship slow down, and if she had kept her speed they may have missed the iceberg completely.

9.) The iceberg was massive; taller than the ship, and when she sideswiped it, the immense size put so much pressure and made the iron plates buckle and the rivets pop over 300 feet along the starboard side.

Answer 3

The titanic was warned to slow down due to ice, but Captain Edward James Smith decided against, for people had places to be on time. If they had slowed their speed to 10, the ship would have had time to avoid the iceberg and get people to their appointments and stuff late, but ALIVE

Answer 4

At that time they didnt have very good technology. So it was very hard to see things (like iceburgs) late at night.