The Titanic hit an iceberg it should have missed because she turned too slow due to small rudders. The collision tore a long gash in her port side. As she took on seawater she was sinking slowly by the bow. The Titanic eventually broke in half because of two major designs flaw. First, the bulkheads (walls running port to starboard) were open at the top, this allowed the seawater to pour over defeating the water tight doors below and flooded the next compartment in succession. In time the stern reached a critical angle of about 30 degrees and this created an enormous stress on the keel and a mid-section expansion joint which failed and the Titanic broken in half on the surface and slipped quickly under water.
It has also been suggested after conducting tests on samples of the steel reclaimed from the wreck, that there was a greater possibility of metal failure on this particular type of steel. It contained high levels of sulphur and oxygen. Under the conditions that the ship encountered that night, with the shell exposed to temperatures of around -2 Celsius it can be safe to say that the metal would have become less plastic and more brittle, increasing the likelihood of this event occurring.
Interestingly, it was believed by some passengers at the time of the sinking that the ship had indeed split in two, although not everybody confirmed this. Both the US and British wreck reports rejected this opinion in favour of the ship sinking as a whole entity.
The boat hit an iceberg .The stern rose up almost completely vertical an the pressure made the ship break in half.
Titanic snapped in half upon her sinking because her keel was built to support her weight while horizontal and while in the water, not at an angle with no support.
Because the weight pressed upon the hull was too much for it to handle
441 feet
The hull of Titanic split (but not in half) just a few minutes before 2:20 AM on April 15, 1912.
53 children died on Titanic. Presumably, about half of them were boys.
the titanic did not split in half it got a hole in it because it hit an iceberg
half of the passengers
the titanic did split in half bob barred found out when he found the titanic
IN half
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it broke in half
441 feet
The hull of Titanic split (but not in half) just a few minutes before 2:20 AM on April 15, 1912.
53 children died on Titanic. Presumably, about half of them were boys.
the titanic did not split in half it got a hole in it because it hit an iceberg
half of them do and the other half doesn't
4 and a half days
The bow. (Front)
Four and a half day