"with the plot bearing a number of similarities to the ""Titanic"" disaster. In the novel the ship is the SS ""Titan"", a four-stacked liner, the largest in the world and considered unsinkable. And like the ""Titanic"", she sinks after hitting an iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats. Only recently has the significance of ""Titanic"" most notably been given by Northern Ireland where it was built by Harland and Wolff in the capital city, Belfast. While the rest of the world embraced the glory and tragedy of ""Titanic"", in its birth city, ""Titanic"" remained a taboo subject throughout the 20th"
"Sinking of the RMS Titanic ""Titanic"" received six warnings of sea ice on 14 April but was travelling near her maximum speed when her lookouts sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship suffered a glancing blow that buckled her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen compartments to the sea. ""Titanic"" had been designed to stay afloat with four of her forward compartments flooded but no more, and the crew soon realised that the ship would sink. They used distress flares and radio (wireless) messages to attract help as the passengers were put into lifeboats. In"
"RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS ""Titanic"" was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three s operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff"
"two. Proportionately, the heaviest losses were suffered by the second-class men, of whom 92 percent died. Of the pets brought aboard, three survived the sinking. Books Journal articles News reports Investigations Sinking of the RMS Titanic ""Titanic"" received six warnings of sea ice on 14 April but was travelling near her maximum speed when her lookouts sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship suffered a glancing blow that buckled her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen compartments to the sea. ""Titanic"" had been designed to stay afloat with four of her forward compartments flooded but"
"Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic The lifeboats of the RMS ""Titanic"" played a crucial role in the disaster of 14–15 April 1912. One of the ship's legacies was that she had too few lifeboats to evacuate all those on board. The 20 lifeboats that she did carry could only accommodate 1,178 people, despite the fact that there were approximately 2,208 on board. had a maximum capacity of 3,327 passengers and crew. Eighteen lifeboats were used, loading between 11:45 p.m.–2:15 a.m., though Collapsible Boat A floated off the ship's partially submerged deck, and Collapsible Boat B floated away upside down minutes"
"the dining salon and the grand staircase were in identical style and created by the same craftsmen. Large parts of the interior of the ""Olympic"" were later sold and are now in the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick, which gives an impression of how the interior of the ""Titanic"" looked. Books: Journals and news articles: Investigations: RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers"
"the forward funnel had to accommodate the exhausts of a dozen boilers compared to the aft funnel's six, further increasing the smoke from the forward funnel. All eight capital ships of the 1909–1910 Naval Programme had the same arrangement of masts and funnels; only the two battlecruisers had their foremast and forward funnel positions exchanged at considerable expense. David K. Brown, naval architect and historian, commented on the whole fiasco: ""It is amazing that it took so long to attain a satisfactory arrangement, which was caused by the DNO's insistence on sighting hoods in the roofs of turrets and Jellicoe's"
"funnel placed as the aftermost of the funnels. The false funnels did have more uses than simply aiding aesthetics however - a stoker who survived the sinking of the ""Titanic"" escaped the boiler room by ascending the false funnel, the aft funnel of ""Normandie"" housed the passengers' dog kennels, and Disney Cruise Line's Disney Magic's forward funnel plays host to a teens-only club. For example, the was built with very distinctive wind-scoops at the base of her funnel. When fitted with new diesel engines in 1987, which had a different exhaust requirement to the old boilers, the new funnel was"
"Crew of the RMS Titanic The crew of the RMS ""Titanic"" were among the estimated 2,344 people who sailed on the maiden voyage of the second of the White Star Line's ""Olympic"" class ocean sea liners, from Southampton, England to New York City in the US. Halfway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 people, including approximately 688 crew members. The following is a full list of known crew members who sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS ""Titanic"". Included in"
"being the first liner with four funnels. She was credited with sparking the race for maritime supremacy between France, Germany and the United Kingdom which soon saw the creation of some of the most famous ships in history. Although not planned to have had any sister ships, the subsequent (1901), (1903) and all enjoyed good careers; however, when World War I broke out, the first was sunk in August 1914 and the other three were seized in 1917 by the United States, never to return to German hands. At the close of the 19th century, competition on the North Atlantic"
"of the third funnel) along with pieces of the third funnel was found. This showed that instead of simply disintegrating into a mass of debris, large sections of the ship broke off in chunks and that the ship broke in half between the second and third funnels, not the third and fourth funnels. Five of the boilers from Number 1 Boiler Room came loose during its disintegration and landed in the debris field around the stern. Experts believe that this tight cluster of the boilers marks the hypocenter of where the ship broke up 12,000 feet above. The rest of"
"SS ""Imperator"", SS ""Normandie"" and the RMS ""Queen Mary"" all sported three funnels to conserve deck space, later still as shipbuilding became more efficient the RMS ""Queen Elizabeth"", RMS ""Mauretania"" and the ""SS America"" reduced this further down to two funnels, today's modern cruise ships are mostly built with only a single funnel and many military vessels no longer sport them at all. Notes: In the late 1920s the world's main shipping lines were Britain's Cunard Line and White Star Line and France's Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. Each of these three were operating ageing vessels and required new larger and more"
"Passengers of the RMS Titanic An estimated 2,400 people sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS ""Titanic"", the second of the White Star Line's ""Olympic"" class ocean liners, from Southampton, England to New York City, New York, US. Partway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 people, including approximately 815 of the passengers. The ""Titanic""s passengers were divided into three separate classes, determined not only by the price of their ticket but by wealth and social class: those travelling in first"
"indicating the recovery vessel: Numbers 324 and 325 were unused, and the six bodies buried at sea by the ""Carpathia"" also went unnumbered. In addition to the above-listed passengers, the ""Titanic"" carried 29 cross-channel passengers who boarded at Southampton and disembarked at either Cherbourg, France or Queenstown, Ireland. Passengers of the RMS Titanic An estimated 2,400 people sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS ""Titanic"", the second of the White Star Line's ""Olympic"" class ocean liners, from Southampton, England to New York City, New York, US. Partway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the"
"RMS Titanic Lifeboat No. 1 ""Titanic"" Lifeboat No. 1 was a lifeboat from the steamship . It was the fourth boat launched to sea, over an hour after the liner collided with an iceberg and began sinking on April 14, 1912. With a capacity of 40 people, it was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night. Boat No. 1 was one of two small ""emergency"" wooden cutters that were located one on each side of the ""Titanic""; No. 1 was on the starboard side. Although they performed double-duty as lifeboats, their primary"
"1913 to provide some system to the naming of HM destroyers. All of the ""26-knotters"" and most of the ""27-knotters"" had been lost or scrapped before the 1913 classification (and so - strictly speaking - never survived to become 'A' class), but for convenience all 42 ships are listed below. The number of funnels varied from one to four. All vessels had a distinctive ""turtleback"" forecastle that was intended to clear water from the bow, but actually tended to dig the bow in to anything of a sea, resulting in a very wet conning position. They generally displaced around 260"
"were very uneconomical and had a severely limited radius of action; ""Afridi"" and ""Amazon"" once used 9.5 tons of oil each simply to raise steam for a three-mile (5 km) return journey to a fuel depot. Design details were left to the individual builders, as was Royal Navy practice at the time for destroyers. As a result, no two were alike and there was considerable heterogeneity of detail and appearance, Most noticeably the number of funnels varied from three, in ""Cossack"" and ""Ghurka"", to six in ""Viking""; the latter, with two single and two pairs of funnels becoming the only"
"rigged as a four masted barque, she was the first White Star ship to sport two funnels. She was powered by inverted compound reciprocating engines, supplied by Messrs Maudslay, Sons & Field of Lambeth. ""Britannic""s hull was subdivided into eight watertight compartments by nine watertight bulkheads. As built the ""Britannic"" incorporated a novel system which allowed the single propeller to be raised and lowered while still connected to its shaft and without stopping the engine. This was achieved with a flexible coupling and an elongated aperture in the ship's sternpost. This feature was an attempt to overcome the disadvantage of"
"explode if they came into contact with the cold seawater flooding the boiler rooms. The stokers and firemen were ordered to reduce the fires and vent the boilers, sending great quantities of steam up the funnel venting pipes. They were waist-deep in freezing water by the time they finished their work. ""Titanic""s lower decks were divided into sixteen compartments. Each compartment was separated from its neighbour by a bulkhead running the width of the ship; there were fifteen bulkheads in all. Each bulkhead extended at least to the underside of E Deck, nominally one deck, or about , above the"
"was beginning to stress. The opening of the joint stretched and snapped the stays. The forward momentum of the ship as it took a sudden lurch forward and downward sent the unsupported funnel toppling onto the starboard bridge wing. One theory that would support the fracturing of the hull is that the ""Titanic"" partly grounded on the shelf of ice below the waterline as she collided with the iceberg, perhaps damaging the keel and underbelly. Later during the sinking, it was noticed that Boiler Room #4 flooded from below the floor grates rather than from over the top of the"
"Grand Staircase of the RMS Titanic The Grand Staircase is the name sometimes given to the large ornate staircases in the first-class section of the White Star Line liner RMS ""Titanic"", which sank following a collision with an iceberg in 1912. The staircase has been prominently featured in ""Titanic"" media and often recreated in film, making it one of the most recognizable features of the lost liner. Sited in the forward part of the ship, the Grand Staircase was the main communication between decks for First-Class passengers and the point of entry to numerous public rooms. It descended in seven"
"may be related to a lack of strength from the loss of its superstructure. The beam is reduced with the funnels missing presumably to deterioration. The bow is the most prominent portion of the wreck with the stern damaged by depth charges. Three of the four propellers were removed by Oceaneering International in 1982. Expeditions to ""Lusitania"" have shown that the ship has deteriorated much faster than ""Titanic"" has, being in a depth of of water. When contrasted with her contemporary, ""Titanic"" (resting at a depth of ), ""Lusitania"" appears in a much more deteriorated state due to the presence"
"funnels, due to the immense forces on the keel. With the bow underwater, and air trapped in the stern, the stern remained afloat and buoyant for a few minutes longer, rising to a nearly vertical angle with hundreds of people still clinging to it, before sinking. For many years it was generally believed the ship sank in one piece; however, when the wreck was located many years later, it was discovered that the ship had fully broken in two. All remaining passengers and crew were immersed into lethally cold water with a temperature of . Sudden immersion into freezing water"
"only stay afloat with four compartments flooded. ""Titanic"" sank 2 hours and 40 minutes after the collision. There being not enough lifeboats for all the passengers and the nearest responding ship () being too far away, 1,514 of the 2,224 people on board died, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. In 1911, ""Britannic"" supposedly was named ""Gigantic"" in its early phases, although this was denied by the White Star line. The third, and final liner to the ""Olympic""-class trio, ""Britannic"" was launched on 26 February 1914 at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast and"
"immediately inboard of boats 1 and 2 respectively. A and B were stored on the roof of the officers' quarters, on either side of number 1 funnel. There were no davits to lower them and their weight would make them difficult to launch by hand. Each boat carried (among other things) food, water, blankets, and a spare life belt. Lifeline ropes on the boats' sides enabled them to save additional people from the water if necessary. ""Titanic"" had 16 sets of davits, each able to handle four lifeboats. This gave ""Titanic"" the ability to carry up to 64 wooden lifeboats"
"16 primary compartments divided by 15 bulkheads which extended well above the waterline. Eleven vertically closing watertight doors could seal off the compartments in the event of an emergency. The ship's exposed decking was made of pine and teak, while interior ceilings were covered in painted granulated cork to combat condensation. Standing above the decks were four funnels, each painted buff with black tops, (though only three were functional—the last one was a dummy, installed for aesthetic purposes and also for kitchen ventilation)—and two masts, each high, which supported derricks for working cargo. ""Titanic""s rudder was so large—at high and"
"Changes in safety practices after the sinking of the RMS Titanic The sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" resulted in the following changes in maritime policy. Alexander Carlisle, Harland and Wolff's general manager and chairman of the managing directors, suggested that ""Titanic"" use a new, larger type of davit which could give the ship the potential to carry 48 lifeboats; this would have provided enough seats for everyone on board. However, the White Star Line decreed that only 20 lifeboats would be carried, which could accommodate about 38% of those on board when the ship was filled to capacity. At the"
"five ship sinkings and one collision. The ships he voyaged on included the HMHS Asturias 1907, RMS Olympic 1911, RMS Titanic 1912, RMS Alcantara 1916, HMHS Britannic 1916 and SS Donegal 1917. Accidents and sinkings at this time were relatively common. On the Titanic alone, more than 600 tons of coal per day had to be shovelled into the furnaces to maintain an even speed for the ship. Life was not pleasant for Priest and he seem to have a string of bad luck on ships. After surviving the sinking of five ships in total and one major collision. Priest"
"the starboard side of ""Titanic"" struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline. The hull was not punctured by the iceberg, but rather dented such that the hull's seams buckled and separated, allowing water to seep in. Five of the ship's watertight compartments were breached. It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as she could not survive more than four compartments being flooded. ""Titanic"" began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment as her angle in the water became steeper. Those aboard ""Titanic"" were ill-prepared for such an emergency. In accordance with accepted"
"the boilers are still presumably located in the bow section. As Titanic broke apart, many objects and pieces of hull were scattered across the sea bed. There are two debris fields in the vicinity of the wreck, each between long, trailing in a south-westerly direction from the bow and stern. They cover an area of about . Most of the debris is concentrated near the stern section of ""Titanic"". It consists of thousands of objects from the interior of the ship, ranging from tons of coal spilled from ruptured bunkers to suitcases, clothes, corked wine bottles (many still intact despite"
"torpedo tube (or amidships before and after the tube in some ships.) All ships had three funnels, the foremost being tall and narrow, the second short and wide and the third level with the second but narrower. The foremost torpedo tube was sited between the second and third funnels, a distinctive feature of this class. There were twelve 'standard' vessels built to a common Admiralty design, and eight builders' specials that (except for ""Garland"") had a shorter, less beamy hull; five of the latter were from Thornycroft with (one of Thornycroft's ships, , was planned to diesel cruising motors, but"
"have a length that exceeds 900 feet. Unlike other liners with four funnels, ""Aquitania"" did not have a dummy funnel; every funnel was utilised in venting steam from boilers. The superstructure of the ship, painted white to contrast with the black hull, was particularly imposing and the absence of a raised forecastle gave it an appearance too wide compared to the hull when seen from the front. Steam was provided by twenty-one, forced draft, double ended Scotch boilers having eight furnaces each that were long with diameter of arranged in four boiler rooms. Each boiler room had seven ash expellers"
"crew had to use hand signals to communicate. ""Titanic"" had a total of 20 lifeboats, comprising 16 wooden boats on davits, 8 on either side of the ship, and 4 collapsible boats with wooden bottoms and canvas sides. The collapsibles were stored upside down with the sides folded in, and would have to be erected and moved to the davits for launching. Two were stored under the wooden boats and the other two were lashed atop the officers' quarters. The position of the latter would make them extremely difficult to launch, as they weighed several tons each and had to"