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THE UNTOLD TRUTH ABOUT THE RMS TITANIC

INTRODUCTION

Titanic was one of three ‘Olympic Class’ liners commissioned by the White Star

Line to be built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Shipbuilders Harland and

Wolff, were given much free reign in designing ships for White Star Line, thanks to their

long established relationship and the usual approach was for White Star Line to provide

a general concept to which Harland and Wolff would create into a ship design. At this

time, regards for cost were low priority and Harland and Wolff was given the go ahead

to spend what was needed to produce the Olympic Class ships.

The designs of the Olympic Class ship were overseen by Lord Pirrie, a director of

both Harland and Wolff and the White Star Line; Thomas Andrews, a naval architect

and the managing director of Harland Wolff’s design department; Edward Wilding, who

was responsible for calculating the ship’s design, stability and trim; Alexander Carlisle,

the shipyard’s chief draughtsman and general manager.

Construction began on the first of these great ships, Olympic, on 16 December

1908. Work on Titanic started soon after, on 31 March 1909. These magnificent vessels

were the industrial marvels of their age and Titanic was to be the biggest, fastest, and

most luxurious liner yet.

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The Titanic was designed to be the epitome of style, comfort and luxury including

gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries and exquisite restaurants and cabins and etc. It is

not surprising to hear that the wealthiest people in the world come to aboard the Titanic.

Although it is worth nothing that there was also well over a thousand emigrants from

Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia onboard where all of them are seeking a new life in

North America.

Given calculations using the US Department of Labor’s Inflation tool, the $7.5

million US dollars Titanic cost to build in 1912 would be roughly equivalent to $174

million today.

Titanic was finished for after three years of work, with 70,000 tons of steel as

many people called it “The Unsinkable Ship”, as many people believed that it would

never sink from the strength of a manmade cruise ship, only the titanic could only carry

3,295 people: 2,435 passengers, and crew of 860. Travellers were separated into three

classes: first, second and third class: 689 first, 674 second and 1,026 third respectively.

Through the Titanic had advances safety features, due to outdated maritime

safety regulations she lacked enough lifeboats to accommodate all onboard passengers

in fact she carried only enough lifeboats for 1,178 people, which was just a third of her

total crew and passenger capacity.

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Following the tragedy of the collision with an iceberg, passengers and some crew

members evacuated in lifeboats. Due to protocol “women and children first” a

disproportionate number of men, which included that 90% of men from second class

were left onboard. When Titanic finally broke in to two with over a thousand people still

on board, those on the water immersed in the freezing ocean died within minutes from

hypothermia and some hours later, 710 survivors were taken aboard from the lifeboats

by the RMS Carpathia.

The Titanic disaster provoked global shock that there was outrage at the large

number of lives lost and the regulation and operation failures that had caused it.

Many years past, debates began to form in the tragic disaster of the Titanic, on

why the Titanic got hit by the Iceberg, why many passengers died on board, and why no

one came to help or located the sinking ship but only too late. Many untold stories still

need to unravel wherein still a mystery.

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The Construction of Titanic

On the year of 1909, 31st of March, the construction of Titanic was designed by

James Andrews who laid the first kneel plate in the Harland and Wolff shipyards Belfast,

with the huge structures of the Titanic, it can be seen across most on Belfast city.

From the construction of the titanic, it took 3 years for it to be completed in an

estimating of 15,000 days as the height of it mostly measures to The Gantry by 220

feet.

Blaming Titanic’s steel for her demise

Many combining factors led to the magnitude of Titanic’s disaster at sea,

including lack of lifeboats, flaw in the design of the ship and negligence of the crew. One

factor that we can accurately evaluate with today’s technology is the quality of steel that

was used for the Titanic, and if any shortcuts were taken during construction that may

have contributed to the disastrous event. Titanic’s three million rivets were driven by

hand. After doing a series of impct tests based on their steel sample, the team was able

to determine that the used to build the ship was much more inferior to modern steel.

About 10 times more brittle in fact compared to the steel used to make today’s ships.

Test results showed high concentrations of sulfur, oxygen and phosphorous, and low

concentrations of manganese, nitrogen and silicon. This was mainly a result of

producing the steel using open-health furnaces. Pieces of steel from the jull have also

appeared almost, with no evidence of bending or deformation.

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Temperature which the Titanic sank

The frigid waters in which the Titanic struck the iceberg most likely had a big

impact on the time it took the Titanic o sink, which was about 2 hours and 40 minutes.

The below freezing temperature water made the steel abnormally brittle and less impact

resistant and contributed to the size of the hole and the rapid sinking of the ship.

Passnegers on the Titanic recalled hearing loud cracking noises coming from the ships

structure while it was sinking. Leighly noted that you would expect groaning instead of

cracking sounds when steel breaks, unless the steel is brittle.

A Book before the TItanic

In 1898 where 14 years before the Titanic sank, Morgan Robertson wrote a

novella titled The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility that was published in the date of 1898,

it is about a fictional ocean liner that sinks due to a collision with an iceberg. In the book,

the ship is described as being “unsinkable” and doesn’t have enough lifeboats for

everyone onboard. The similiarities are pretty uncanny. Even downright spooky. A

coincidence where only a book becomes a reality of disastrous event in 1912.

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Most Characters in the film are Real

Seeing the film of The Titanic makes you think all of the scenes are real, but only

some of it are. Mostly of the characters of the film where real, Actor Bernard Hill who

acted as the Captain of the Titanic, Kathy Bates who portraited as Margaret “Molly”

Brown known as “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” , Eric Braeden, an actor who played the

role as John Jacob Astor, who is the richest man from the country of New York, Victor

Garber who played the role as Thomas Andrews, the Chief Designer of Royal Mail

Ship(RMS) Titanic, Jonathan Hyde, who played the role as Bruce Ismay, an English

Businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line.

Black passenger in the Titanic

Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was the only black man to perish in the

Titanic sinking. Joseph Laroche was born in Haiti in 1889 into a powerful family - his

uncle, Dessalines M. Cincinnatus Leconte, was the president of Haiti. When he was

fifteen, Joseph Laroche left to Haiti to study engineering in Beauvais, France. Several

years later, he met Juliette Lafargue, the 22-year-old daughter of a local wine seller.

The two eventually married. Despite having an engineering degree, his skin color left

him unabl to find employment in France. The Laroches decided to return to Haiti and

booked second-class reservations on the Titanic. After the ship struck an iceberg,

Joseph loaded his wife and children onto a lifevoat and he went down with the ship. His

body was never recovered. Shortly before Christmas of that year, Juliette Laroche gave

birth to their son, Joseph Laroche Jr. Juliette never remarried.

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Not enough Lifeboats

One of the factors that makes the sinking of the Titanic so memorable is the fact

that lives were needlessly lost. There were not enough Titanic Lifeboats on board to

hold all the passengers and crew, and when the lifeboats were launched they were not

filled to capaciy.

Only the Titanic carried 20 lifeboats, enough for only 1178 people. The existing

Board of Trade required a passenger ship to provide lifeboat capacity for 1060 people.

The boat was designed to carry 60 lifeboats but this number was reduced to 20

because it was felt that the deck would be too cluttered. It was legal, accoarding to the

laws, it is not depended on the number of passengers, but on the tonnage of the ship.

Charles Lightoller as the senior surviving officer was questioned about the fact

that the lifeboats were not filled to capacity. Lightoller believed that it would be

impossible to fill the boat capacity before lowering them to sea without the mechanism

that held them collapsing. Lightoller admitted that he should have made some

arrangement for the boats to be filled once they were afloat.

At the time of the Titanic’s construction lifeboat drills were standard practice on

ocean liners, this way, the crew could prepare the passengers for an emergency should

have occur. But this type of drill, never took place on the Titanic. Captain Edward John

Smith cancelled the drill scheduled on the morning of the day the Titanic sank.

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Not Ice but Fire

As much to be known, mostly the stories of the TItanic, that caused the ship to

sink is the iceberg, but mostly sceintists found out that the cause of it was not ice but

fire, a journalist Senan Molony has been studying the fate of the Titanic for more than

30 years, it was he who discovered a 30 foot long black spot on the hull of the ship, he

noticed it after examining a photo taken before Titanic’s departure, the journalist got

hold of an album of previously unpublic photographs that showed the construction of the

ship and the preparations for her first and last journey, the fire had to be been burning

for 3 weeks in a very high temperature before somebody noticed it metallurgy experts

are sure that such conditions could have easily weakened the metal, reducing its

strength by as much as 25% thats why the iceberg didn’t have any problems tearing a

hole on the side of the ship, if not for the fire, it would have been impossible, but then

the iceberg exactly hit the spot where the metal was weakened, putting the danger

beside it.

No Binoculars

Worth mentioning that they have 1,500 bottles of wine, 20,000 bottles of beer,

and 8,000 cigars but the most thing that triggered is that there are no binoculars, with

binoculars, it could have saved Titanic, there were no sonar systems in the early times,

so they detect threats ahead of a liner, special people kept watch using binoculars, but

the binoculars in the Titanic have been locked away in a special compartment, the only

person with the key to the locker is the Second Officer David Blair was placed at the last

minute.

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Artir Moore heard the Titanic’s distress calls 3,000 miles away

Moore was a Welsh wireless radio operator who , with his home-made radio

equipment, picked up the Titanic’s distress signals. He relayed the message to the

locals, non of whom believed him. Two days later, news of the Titanic’s sinking made it

to Wales and Moore was vindicated. Marconi (the inventor of the telegraph) heard of

Moore’s actions and offered him a job on the spot.

Ony three of smokestacks are functioning

The first three smokestacks were actually connected to the furnace that

produced the smoke, but the fourth one wasn’t. The fourth stack functioned mainly as

an air vent and as a way to add some symmetry to the ship’s overall look.

Japanese Survivor

Masabumi Hosono was one of the survivors of the Titanic, he was a Japanese

civil servant and the only Japanese passenger on the ship. Sadly, after surviving the

ship’s sinking, he found himself condemned by the press, government, and the public

as cowardly for not going down with the ship.

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Youngest Survivor

The youngest survivor was named Eliza Gladys “Millvina” Dean. She was only 2

months old when she and her family boarded the Titanic. After the ship struck the

iceberg, Millvina, her mother and her brother were placed on Lifeboat 10 and were

some of the first third-class passengers to escape. Her father, however, perish on the

ship.

After Millvina died at the age of 97 in 2009, she was cremated, and her ashes were

scattered from the Southampton docks from where the Titanic had set sail.

Ballard discovered the Titanic wreckage in 1985

Ballard had actually been hired by the U.S. government for a top-secret mission

to use an underwater robot e’d invented to find two nuclear submarines that sank in the

1960s.

The Navy made a deal with him: Find the subs, and then we’ll fund an expedition to find

the Titanic. And that’s exactly what happened. He found the subs with 12 days left in his

contract with the Navy, then found the Titanic afterwards.

Blaspheming God

One of the White Star Employee says that “Not even God himself could sink this ship.”

Many people says its an unsinkable ship because of its size and techonological

advancements and that was the primary reasons why it is called the Unsinkable Ship.

With what they called as an Unsinkable Ship before is now at the depths of the Atlantic

Ocean, for they believed that it would never sink even God himself.

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Conclusion

A disastrous event that happened in the history is much of a reflection that need

to change in these days, from safety procedures to maritime activity in ships to be more

safer and be more careful in travelling, thanks to the new technologies these days, more

likely it is so helpful to help in our environment and to all the people in the world.

From what to learn from the sinking of the Titanic, trying to blaspheming God is

one of a sin that you should never say. For God is the creator of all things and the king

of all kings. Reflecting on what to believe, all things in this world is temporary but God’s

gift for us is eternal life.

As the reflection in life, from the Titanic, ignoring warnings and didn’t take heed

to icebergs. We too will perish if we ignore the urgency that Christ is coming soon. The

unsinkable boat in the New Testament is the one Jesus was in.

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References

Websites

https://www.discoveringireland.com/history-of-titanic/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/titanic

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Titanic

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/topics/belfast_golden_age_shipbuilding

www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/titanic.php

https://twentytwowords.com/real-life-titanic-facts-the-movie-didnt-tell-you/

https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/2017/12/19/100-unsinkable-facts-

titanic/964485001/

https://www.ultimatetitanic.com/construction/

https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-titanic-lifeboats/

Books

The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson

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