The Titanic Research Paper

Eva Hart, a Titanic survivor, once said, “I was only seven, but I remember thinking everything in the world was standing still” (Metelko). Many survivors have had similar comments about the dreadful night the Titanic left the ocean’s surface forever. These statements and historical curiosity both fascinated and inspired film makers. Hollywood has depicted the sinking and made the Titanic a familiar topic among the people of today, over 100 years after its occurrence. What people do not realize is that there is more to learn about the Titanic than what is seen in the duration of a three hour film, such as the ship’s construction, the sinking and what led up to it, and what remains of the “unsinkable.” To fully understand why the Titanic was

The Chairman of the White Star Line, J. Bruce Ismay, proposed his idea for the ship based on a rivalry. At the time, another ship liner, Cunard, produced two ships, the

Mauritania and the Lusitania (“The Build of the Titanic”). In 1907, the year they were built, they were the most rapid moving ships able to carry passengers. Soon after hearing this, J. Bruce

Ismay sought to conquer his main competitor with a ship that had greater dimensions and

Juice 2 opulence, as opposed to greater speed (“The Build of the Titanic”). Two years after Titanic was thought of, his vision became a reality. In 1909 in Belfast Ireland, the building began. A good portion of Harland and Wolff’s employees worked on the project. It took around 3,000 workers to create a ship that weighed 46,000 tons, over 20 stories high, and 882 feet long (“The Build of the Titanic”). Including passengers and crew, 3,547 could stay on board at one given time

(Fowler). Some say that the Titanic was destined to sink from the very beginning (Boness,

Laura). Problems with the rivets, the things that fastened the ship together, could have been

The reason behind this thought was because of the way the ship was put together. Towards the bottom of the ship, there were sixteen water tight bulkhead compartments. The unique factor about these compartments was that with a single close of a steel, watertight door, if the ship were to get water on the inside, the rush water could be cut off and isolated, essentially preventing sinking from occurring (“The Build of the

Titanic”). While Harland and Wolff were hired constructed the ship’s outside and framework,

Mr. Thomas Andrews, a famous architect, was in charge of the interior design. The actual construction was finished on May 31, 1911 (“The Build of the Titanic”). It then took a year to install engines and take care of the ship’s interior matters. Ismay wanted to spare no expense when it came to luxury aspect of the ship (“The Build of the Titanic”) (“The Sinking of the

Titanic, 1912”). Thomas Andrews created a ship for him that, for first class passengers, contained private promenade decks, smoke rooms, and a library. Even second and third class housing were more lavish than other ships (“The Build of the Titanic”). Perhaps the most