Titanic

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Gloria Stuart

The irony of the Titanic is that the ship was built so well it was said that "God himself couldn't sink her." Then on her maiden voyage she hit an iceberg and sank. many lives were lost because there weren't enough life boats for everyone.

That is irony, the dramatic irony is all the character are so optimistic and happy to get aboard the titanic when the audience knows that ship is fated to sink. which would depend on wether or not you are talking about the movie or the ship itself.

The Titanic possessed 15 bulkheads, which divided the ship into 16 watertight compartments. The Titanic was designed to still stay afloat even if 4 compartments were breached, but upon impact 5 of them were breached, and eventually they all flooded as the ship sank.

The titanics telegraph was in the wheeling area on the boat deck. There were five of them. (order from right to left).The first one sent messages to the reciprocating engines.The handles were not connected the were separated to indicate port and starboard directions.The second one was used to send messages from the stern to wheeling area because in the wheeling area you could not see all the way to the bottom.The third one was for emergency's.This one is different because it tell the enginers to do the direction faster.The fourth one was for docking.This is the second hardest because docking is very hard for a ship like the titanic.And there was also a docking telegraph on the stern so someone on the stern can give direction on where to go.The last one is another one that sent messages to the reciprocating engines.

Queensland (Cobh) was the final pick-up point on the Maiden Voyage of Titanic. On her maiden voyage she had also stopped at Cherbourg, France and Southampton, England (her origin).

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Captain Edward J. Smith was born in Hanley, Stafforshire, England on January 27, 1850.

The wreck of Titanic is about 400 miles south of Newfoundland.

Jack died from hypothermia. Whilst Rose was laid in a block of wood from the wreckage floating on the sea, Jack was hanging on the edge of it with over half his body submerged in below freezing water. This caused him to have hypothermia, sending blood to his heart instead of round his body and eventually made his heart stop before help could reach him.

It sunk in the North Atlantic, the bulk of it still remains at the bottom of the ocean. Parts of it have been recovered and can be seen on display in some traveling exhibits.

In Memory of those souls who perished with the "Titanic" April 14/15 1912, Dedicated to William H. Tantum.IV Whose dream to find the "Titanic" has been realized by Dr.Robert D. Ballard.

The officers and members of the Titanic Historical Society Inc. 1986

The youngest person on the Titanic was Loraine Allison, who was in first class. She was lost at sea when she was 2 years old. With her was her family, except for her baby brother, Trevor, who was 1 year old at the time.

Yes, Carpathia helped the survivors of Titanic. She arrived near the scene of the sinking of Titanic at about 4:00 AM. She started to rescue passengers around then until the last person, Second-Officer Lightoller, boarded at 8:10 in the morning.

Metallurgic analysis of steel plates recovered from the Titanic showed it was substandard and contained too much slag (impurities) making it brittle at low temperatures.

Other investigations also showed that the rivets that held the hull plates together were also substandard. Some investigative work also revealed that the designers decided to use iron rather than steel rivets at the hull and stern and only use steel rivets for the central section where stresses were expected to be greatest. While it that might be true for a ship flexing in stormy conditions it is not true for the impact of iceberg at the hull section. Production pressures caused by a shortage of rivets, resulted in the builders obtaining rivet iron from smaller forges with less skill and experience than the regular suppliers. There is also a suggestion that there was a shortage of skilled riveters and that the company possibly used some less skilled and experienced riveters to make up the numbers.

Add to that, bulkheads that did not extend all the way up to the deck so that compartments could not be isolated from each other once the ship was tilted significantly, a captain that was more interested in breaking speed records than safety, lookouts who had their binoculars confiscated in case they used them to spy on ladies on the deck below, locking gates between decks to make sure the lower class passengers could not escape and impede the escape of the higher class passengers on the upper decks, insufficient numbers of lifeboats and ....... basically a long list of bad decisions, inepitude, incompetence and shame on the part of the Titanic company.

Kate Winslet plays Rose DeWitt Bukater

Gloria Stuart plays old Rose

Frances Fisher plays Rose's widowed mother, Ruth.

Kathy Bates plays "the unsinkable" Molly Brown

he gave up his seat on the rescue boat when the titanic sunk

they had a ballroom dancing to celebrate the days on the titanic.

the song the orchestra played when the ship went down was "Nearer my God to thee" in the films, however nobody will ever know what the very last song played was as nobody onboard survived during the final stage or, sadly, if it was even finished. god bless

Frances Fisher plays Rose's mother, Ruth Dewitt Bukater.

Because of buoyancy. Even though the steel of the ship weighs a lot more then water, the ship also has a lot of air in it (the ship is not a solid chuck of steel), the lightness of the air off sets the heaviness of the steel to allow it to float.

There has never been universal agreement over the number of lives lost in the sinking of the Titanic. Beginning with the first news reports of the disaster, inquirers have found it unwise to trust the original passenger and crew lists, which were rendered inaccurate by such factors as misspellings, omissions, aliases, and failure to count musicians and other contracted employees as either passengers or crew members. Agreement was made more difficult by the international nature of the disaster, essentially involving a British-registered liner under American ownership that carried more than 2,000 people of many nationalities. Immediately after the sinking, official inquiries were conducted by a special committee of the U.S. Senate (which claimed an interest in the matter on the grounds of the American lives lost) and the British Board of Trade (under whose regulations the Titanic operated). The figures established by these hearings are as follows:

U.S. Senate committee: 1,517 lives lost

British Board of Trade: 1,503 lives lost

Confusion over these figures was immediately aggravated by the official reports of these inquiries to the U.S. Senate and the British Parliament; these reports revised the numbers to 1,500 and 1,490, respectively. The figures have been revised, officially and unofficially, so many more times since 1912 that most researchers and historians concede that they will never know how many of the people sailing on the Titanic died.

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(please note that this is copy and pasted from the internet. All credit goes to the wonderful authors at Britannica, specifically Amy Tikkanen, Emily Rodriguez, and Adam Augustyn.