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Titanic
Titanic was the biggest passenger liner when she set off for her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. After four days, she hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean resulting in the death of 1,517 people.
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How old was Jack Thayer when the Titanic sank?
Jack Thayer was still young, at 17, while sailing Titanic. His mother survived Titanic but his father did not. Later, a year after his mother passed. when Jack's son was killed in combat, he took his own life.
How were the survivors of the titanic saved?
They got on to lifeboats, and were then rowed to the Carpathia, which went to America, but 3/4 of the people on board Titanic, mainly men, lost their lives, either by drowning or by frostbite, because the temperature was -2 (celsius), and the water was probably much colder, so they would have frozen to death.
The only way anybody survived Titanic was to get seats on any of the lifeboats leaving the ship.
The RMS Titanic was one of three sisters ships. Her sisters were the Olympic and Britanic.
Although the Titanic was identical at the begin with her sister ship the Olympic, the Olympic was laid down first and sailed first. From her early voyages, changes or modifications were made to the Titantic as she neared completion. These modificatios added more tonnage to her making her the largest moving vessle at the time.
Titanic's tonnage was 46,000.
How many life boats were supposed to be on the Titanic?
Titanic could hold 46,000 tons of weight. Lifeboats don't way more then a few hundred pounds. If Titanic had 75 lifeboats, each one carrying 40 people, then 3000 people could have lived, titanic had a little more then 2200.
Titanics lifeboats were estimated to carry as many as 70 people but the last one, lifeboats D fully had about 75 after taking off passengers from overturned lifeboat B.
What were the names of the people saved from the water when titanic sunk?
The people that did not drown.....
Bruno Frey, David Savage, and Benno Torgler
This paper explores the determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested in seeing whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural experiment to provide behavioral evidence that is rare in such a controlled and life threatening event. The empirical results support that social norms such as "women and children first" survive in such an environment. We also observe that women of reproductive age have a higher probability of surviving among women. On the other hand, we observe that crew members used their information advantage and their better access to resources (e.g. lifeboats) to generate a higher probability of surviving. The paper also finds that passenger class, fitness, group size, and cultural background matter.
Who sank the first 3 point field goal in the history of college basketballand what year did it sank?
ronnie carr in 1980
What happened to the titanic's first voyage?
The RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank into the Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 - it was the ship's first and only voyage.
What did steerage do on the Titanic?
Steerage referred to the lowest-cost (and lowest class) accommodations on board a vessel. Generally this was the lowest deck of the ship, where the control lines for the rudder could be found; hence the name, a derivation of 'to steer'.
Steerage accommodations were noisy, cramped, crowded, with limited amenities such as toilets. The passengers were also among the last to be notified of the danger, and the last to be let on board the few lifeboats; as a result, while around 95% of the first-class women and children survived the disaster, less than 45% of those traveling in steerage did; and the men fared even worse.
How many people have died at Disneyland Paris?
It appears as of November 2016, 35 people have died in various circumstances at Walt Disney World
Why was Miss Gladys Cherry on the titanic?
Constance Miriam West and her family were traveling on Titanic, heading to Florida, to start a fruit-growing business.
Why didnt they put more people on the lifeboats from the titanic?
Oh, dude, like, they didn't put more people on the lifeboats from the Titanic because they were like, "Sorry, we're at full capacity, no standing room available." It was like a really exclusive cruise, you know? "Sorry, sir, no room for your plus one, this lifeboat is for VIPs only." So yeah, it was basically like a tragic mix of lack of space and poor planning.
Why must the titanic have seemed awesome sight to people who saw it at night from passing ships?
no one saw it at night it was her first and last voyage
How many years later was it until the Titanic was discovered?
The day of the discovery of the wreck was Sept. 1st, 1985. (from sinking in 1912).
What ship did titanic almost hit?
In Southampton, Titanic had a near-collision with the New York who was almost sucked into Titanic's wake. Many people took this as a bad omen. Others felt that it could have been a good omen, that it could be the only negative incident on the trip.
no , they don't the water level can get so high so it catches up to the island level so it submerges the island.
Not always the case... for instance, the Hawaiian Islands steadily, yet very slowly, sink as time passes. Google "island subsidence" for more info.
What did molly brown do for a living?
The "Unsinkable Molly Brown" (Margaret Brown) came from a humble family and married very humbly. After her marriage to James Joseph Brown (J.J.), James Joseph struck it rich when J.J.'s engineering background helped in the production of a substantial ore seam at the Little Jonny Mine of his employers, Ibex Mining Company, and he was awarded 12,500 shares of stock and a seat on the board.
So began the rise of the Brown family in 1890s. But in 1909, Molly and J. J. separated but never divorced. The agreement gave Molly a cash settlement and she maintained possession of their house in Denver, CO. She also received $700 a month allowance (equivalent to $18,107 today) to continue her travels and social work.
No, the Titanic was NOT built safely.
It was advertised as being safe because its hull was divided into 'water-tight compartments'. Should one or two compartments be punctured, the steel doors would come down, keeping the water in that compartment and the ship afloat. There were pumps to pump out the sea water.
The 'should have been foreseen' problem was 1) that the ship could not float with more than two adjacent compartments full of seawater and 2) that the watertight compartments amidships did not go all the way to the top (the roof) of the topmost storage deck. The iceberg punctured a series of holes (or pushed in so many steel plates) along the side of the ship that filled up 3 watertight compartments. As they filled, the weight pulled down ship at the bow. That made the seawater spill into the 4th, 5th, etc. compartments, that were not watertight to the top.
There was also the quality of the steel. According to some experts now, the steel of the Titanic had more iron in it than quality steel should have had. I don't know if Harland and Wolff knew that when they built the ships. Olympic, Titanic's year older sister ship, would have had the same sort of steel, yet it survived into the 1920's. Perhaps that was because it was given a double skin instead of just a double bottom and watertight compartments that went up all the way after the Titanic sank.
So, the Titanic was built to the standard of other new ships in 1912, but it was not really a safely built ship.
In the harland and wolfe factory in belfast, northern Ireland
How many punctures did the iceberg made to the titanic?
The iceberg did not make any holes in Titanic. The impact separated the plates by popping the rivets (which were riveted together, not welded) and the water breached through.
What was the name of the builder of the Titanic?
Thomas Andrews, born on 7th Feb 1873 and died on Titanic...he is thought of as one of the biggest heros of that fateful night, spending his last hours rousing passengers and making them put on life jackets...he was last seen standing in the 1st class smoking room and went down with the ship...
