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  RMS Titanic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Titanic was 882 ft 9 in (269 m) long and 92 ft 6 in (28 m) at its beam, it had a gross tonnage of 46,328 tons, and a height from the water line to the boat deck of 60 ft (18 m).
Titanic was divided into 16 watertight compartments with doors that were held by a magnetic latch and would fall by moving a switch on the bridge; however, the bulkheads did not traverse the entire height of the decks (only going as far as E-Deck).
However, Titanic's death toll was exceeded by the explosion and sinking of the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River in 1865, where 1,700 died.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RMS_Titanic   (6256 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Titanic Disaster
The sinking of the Titanic has been the subject of several books and films, but not until September 1985 was the actual wreck found resting under about 3800 m (about 12,000 ft) of water.
Sonar experts, naval architects (including one from the shipyard that built the Titanic), a microbiologist, and historians of the shipwreck were among the experts accompanying the expedition.
At the time of the Titanic's sinking there were conflicting reports as to whether the ship broke up at the surface or sank intact.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761564059   (1150 words)

  
 RMS TITANIC, INC
Titanic was delivered to the White Star Line in early April, and on 10 April 1912, the Titanic left Southampton, England, for her first trip to New York City.
After the Titanic sank, the story of her loss was turned into a modern fable and the original description "practically unsinkable" became just "unsinkable" in order to sharpen the moral of the story.
The Titanic was four times larger than the largest legal classification considered under the eighteen year old rules and so by law was not required to carry more than sixteen lifeboats, regardless of the actual number of people onboard.
www.titanic-online.com /index.php4?page=faq   (2012 words)

  
 Sink the Titanic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The amount of "Titanic" hype in the media has reached obnoxious new levels on the overexposure scale.
The truth is "Titanic" is a $200 million piece of Hollywood fluff, cleverly designed to play on emotions and reach mass audiences.
"Titanic" is full of historical inaccuracies and the fact that the film was not dedicated to the victims is horribly tacky - it is making an obscene amount of money off their misfortune.
orion.csuchico.edu /Pages/vol40issue10/o.1.titanic.html   (431 words)

  
 The Titanic
Titanic's keel (number 401) was laid down on March 31st 1909 and she was launched May 31st 1911.
Lusitania a few years later, power on the Titanic stayed on until the very last moment, due mainly to the bravery of the Firemen and associated crew staying at their posts.
The bow traveled forward while sinking at a speed of 22 knots, the boiler section fell almost in a straight line, as for the stern, it imploded and then exploded at depth of about 200 feet because of the air trapped inside it, the people here had the worst fate.
www.angelfire.com /al3/rmstitanic/dstory.html   (2245 words)

  
 Film Review The Titanic Sinks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Titanic, touted as one of "the greatest films of all time," is what we might call a classic example of an unclassical film.
Titanic buffs may have been impressed by the film's special effects, but most have been disappointed that the real story, which was worthy of a blockbuster, was so distorted.
We are fascinated by the Titanic because the sinking of this great ship signalled the end of the modern era (before it even knew that it had been born).
www.roca.org /OA/154/154k.htm   (1074 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: What really made the titanic sink?
As the bow leveled slightly under water and started to sink on it's own it would tug at the stern, the stern would be pulled and be pushing a bit at the same time.
The break up would leave the bow sinking nose up and thus spilling out contents that might not have left the ship had it simply nosed down for the entire plunge to the bottom.
But as this thread brings up "rolling over on its side"...is it possible that the "turning" of the stern or "twisting" as it "bobbed" before sinking is what people are referring to when they say "rolling over".
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /discus/messages/5664/405.html?1118009477   (1324 words)

  
 THE TITANIC
The Titanic was lost on April 15, 1912 during its maiden voyage with a loss of 1,500 lives.
The Titanic was launched from Belfast, Ireland and began sea trials.
The Titanic lies at the bottom of the Atlantic where she will forever remain a ship shrouded in mystery.
www.internetpuppets.org /titanic.html   (514 words)

  
 Titanic
Shortly before midnight on April 14, the ship collided with an iceberg; five of its watertight compartments were ruptured, causing the ship to sink at 2:20 AM April 15.
On Sept. 1, 1985, the wreck of the Titanic was found lying upright in two pieces on the ocean floor at a depth of about 4,000 m (about 13,000 feet).
This telegraph from the Titanic, used to communicate desired speed from the ship's officers to the engine room, was recovered in 1987.
search.eb.com /titanic/01_01.html   (576 words)

  
 Titanic will sink in Allegheny -- three times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Actors often perform on a wooden indoor stage that they call "the boards." But when seven actors and three musicians build, raise, launch and sink the Titanic here this weekend, their stage will be three steel barges floating in the Allegheny River on the city's North Shore.
The Titanic was carrying 2,500 passengers when it hit an iceberg and sank in 1912.
Kohler believes the Titanic's sinking is echoed in more recent disasters, including the overheating of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl and the explosion of NASA's Challenger space shuttle.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04281/391593.stm   (921 words)

  
 How did the Titanic sink?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Engineers analyzed the stresses in the Titanic as the flooding progressed within the bow region, using modern FEA techniques that simply were not available until the 1960s, and certainly were not known to the structural designers of the ship in the first decades of the century.
The failure of the main hull girder of the Titanic was the final phase of her sinking process.
This article is based on a paper, "Titanic, The Anatomy of a Disaster, A Report from the Marine Forensic Panel,"presented at the 1997 annual meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, that documents the work of William H. Garzke, Jr.
www.memagazine.org /backissues/aug98/features/titanic/titanic.html   (3034 words)

  
 CNN - Review: "Starship Titanic" doesn't sink, but it's no blockbuster either - May 22, 1998
You would expect it to either sink like a rock, or be a wildly successful big budget extravaganza.
The premise is that a gigantic, huge budget, unsinkable (can you sink in space?) starship has problems and crash-lands into your house.
Titanic avoids the first problem by having a relatively small map and well-defined items you interact with.
www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9805/22/starship_titanic_review   (894 words)

  
 JOM Article on The Titanic: Did a Metallurgical Failure Cause a Night to Remember?
The construction of the Titanic was delayed due to an accident involving the Olympic.
Initial studies of the sinking proposed that a continuous gash in the hull 100 m in length was created by the impact with the iceberg.
The steel used in constructing the RMS Titanic was probably the best plain carbon ship plate available in the period of 1909 to 1911, but it would not be acceptable at the present time for any construction purposes and particularly not for ship construction.
www.tms.org /pubs/journals/JOM/9801/Felkins-9801.html   (6597 words)

  
 Sinking Titanic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Titanic was held together by 3 million rivets made with a different type of iron than the hull plates, he notes.
One of the last photos taken before the ship's maiden voyage shows a pattern that suggests the rivets were rusting faster than the hull plates, says Baboian.
The Titanic collision with the iceberg could have popped the weakened rivets, which would explain a clinking sound reported by survivors.
www.corrosion-doctors.org /Landmarks/titan-sinking.htm   (394 words)

  
 Titanic Historical Society, Inc.
The focal point of Titanic and Olympic’s grand staircase was a classic sculpture of allegorical figures with a clock at the center known as Honour and Glory Crowning Time.
Titanic - The Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, commissioned him to create a Titanic in 1/48th scale as this is the same dimension as the builders' models.
This Carpathia Medal is the finest possible and an exclusive for the Titanic Historical Society who commissioned the maker of the original Carpathia Medal to issue this extraordinary piece of Titanic history.
www.titanichistoricalsociety.org   (2143 words)

  
 Titanic: Unit Plan [English Online]
Write explanations and factual accounts, based on the sinking of the Titanic, and express personal viewpoints, sequencing ideas logically.
Students will brainstorm ideas about the sinking of the Titanic in groups or as a class discussion.
The Titanic is Sinking by K R Cripwell (see resources) written for students as personal diary of events from design to sinking.
english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/units/titanic/home.html   (764 words)

  
 The Titanic information from Answerbag
The Titanic was White Star Line, while the QM sailed for Cunard (which later aquired the assets of White Star in 1934).
Olympic came out in 1911, and when the Titanic made her maiden voyage in 1912, several changes were made in the latter ship's design including the addition of more luxury suites and enclosing the forward Promenade deck.
The Titanic was built in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the hull was launched on May 31, 1911.
www.answerbag.com /c_view.php/1814   (2226 words)

  
 Titanic FAQ
Yes, Violet Jessop was a stewardess on the Titanic's maiden voyage and was working as a nurse on the Britannic.
The Titanic had an overall length of 882' 9", with a length at the waterline of 850 feet.
The ship didn't sink, although 25 feet of the bow were compressed.
users.accesscomm.ca /nsalway/titfaq.html   (917 words)

  
 Education World ® Lesson Planning: The TITANIC
Eighty-five years ago this month, the huge ocean luxury liner Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean....and, this year, the hype will be starting as the Christmas release date nears for Titanic.
The Titanic is the subject of a new museum exhibit too.
Fourth Graders Explore the Titanic is a Titanic school project at Rabat American School in Rabat, Morocco.
www.educationworld.com /a_lesson/lesson/lesson001.shtml   (713 words)

  
 Titanic - Why did Titanic Sink?
The belief that the ship was unsinkable was, in part, due to the fact that the Titanic had sixteen watertight compartments.
If the Californian had turned on the radio she would have heard the distress messages from Titanic and would have been able to reach the ship in time to save all passengers.
The inquiries stated that if Lord had gone to Titanic's assistance when the first rocket was seen then everyone would have been saved.
www.historyonthenet.com /Titanic/blame.htm   (590 words)

  
 TITANIC
This movie is a fictional story based on the facts concerning the sinking of the Titanic.
The great Titanic, pride of the White Star Fleet and of the United States, was approaching an iceberg.
The Titanic was designed to remain afloat with any two compartments flooded, possibly three, enabling her to withstand a collision at the joint of two compartments.
www.redondohills.org /titanic.htm   (2346 words)

  
 Titanic WebQuest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The topic chosen by your class was the Titanic disaster.
Working in a group of three, you will research and document information on the Titanic.
Titanic: The Death and Life of a Legend, by Michael Davie, 1987
education.nmsu.edu /webquest/wq/titanic/titanic.htm   (594 words)

  
 The Titanic
Within two hours, before the dawn of April 15, 1912, the unsinkable Titanic plunged to its death four mile below the icy surface, taking with it 1500 passengers, most of the crew, and all of its treasure.
Even when the Titanic struck the iceberg, the crew and passengers were confident that the "small" iceberg could do little damage.
According to documented reports, as soon as it was apparent that the ship was going to sink, John Harper immediately took his daughter to a lifeboat.
www.momof9splace.com /titanic.html   (1341 words)

  
 Why did they sink the Titanic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, of how the most luxurious ship in the world struck an iceberg on it's maiden voyage and sank with the loss of over 1500 lives.
But this new investigation reveals a shocking and compelling hypothesis; that the ship lying at the bottom of the north Atlantic is not the Titanic after all, but her NEARLY IDENTICAL SISTER SHIP, the Olympic.
The inescapable conclusion - the sinking of the ship known as the Titanic was a deliberate act; the result of insurance fraud, a conspiracy of breath taking proportions.
www.comedians.co.uk /andrew_newton_titanic.htm   (205 words)

  
 TITANIC - A Voyage of Discovery (mistakes)
The Titanic exceeded this regulation by carrying enough lifeboats for 1,178 people, however this was not enough for her 2,228 people aboard.
When the Titanic hit the iceberg, Captain Smith and the crew waited for a kind of long time, to start preparing the lifeboats and giving lifejackets to the passengers.
Two components of the geography of the Titanic defeated the efforts of many of the Third-Class passengers to reach the Boat-Deck.
www.euronet.nl /users/keesree/mistakes.htm   (660 words)

  
 Titanic
The Titanic, a British passenger liner, struck an iceberg off Newfoundland on the night of April 14-15, 1912, and sank.
One of the problems that resulted in such loss of life was that the Titanic was poorly equipped for such a disaster.
God's Lifeboat, unlike the small boats on the Titanic, has ample room for all those who recognize the great danger that they are in and who put their trust in God's only Saviour and what He did for them on the cross.
www.middletownbiblechurch.org /helpseek/titanic.htm   (1083 words)

  
 The Sun-Climate Connection (Did Sunspots Sink the Titanic?)
Figure 4: The weather and sea conditions that lead to icebergs in the path of the Titanic were typical of the early 1900s.
In a scientific paper, written on the subject of the weather on that night in 1912 when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sunk, E. Lawrence concludes that there is a link between sunspots and the icebergs found in shipping lanes in the early 1900s.
While most scientists would agree that sunspots did not really sink the Titanic, there is significant evidence to show that the cold climate of 1912 may have been in part due to the lower level of solar energy reaching Earth relative to today.
www.oar.noaa.gov /spotlite/archive/spot_sunclimate.html   (1440 words)

  
 Euro 'may sink like the Titanic'
THE launch of the euro was compared yesterday to the Titanic's fateful maiden voyage by Jean-Pierre Chevènement, the French Interior Minister.
The sea is calm, the dining saloon is superb, everything is very comfortable and full of luxury.
But the Titanic is charging at full steam towards the pack ice.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/04/16/weuro16.html   (541 words)

  
 P. A. T. H.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Many Pro-Titanic people take this fact to show that Titanic *is* the best movie due to this.
Titanic took home all the special effect awards.
On the other hand, most of the anti-titanic people bring up well thought out arguments, witty criticisms and innuendo and most of all they are rational and don't go around verbally abusing anyone who disagrees with them.
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 Titanic - Review - Titanic doesn't sink
It seems the nations split when it comes to Titanic, it arose so much hysteria in young girls that it must’ve done something right but at the same time, it now has a stigma attached to it that has lost it all respect.
I personally think this is just snobbery and people tend to like things when their new and everyone’s talking about them, but when it becomes very popular and makes loads of money it suddenly becomes tacky and not cool to like.
When the ship is sinking Rose and Jack try and get out alive but everything’s against them including Billy with a gun and it is at this time that we see some of the best special effects and site design ever made.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /vhs-title-t/titanic/241466   (299 words)

  
 Titanic (1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
I actually think a lot of the characters were done well; that is, by the time they die in freezing water, you actually felt a tinge of sadness for them.
But, by the time Titanic was over, I was sufficiently moved to make me tell people that it was a great movie.
But ultimately, the Titanic sinks...and it was absolutely stunning.
us.imdb.com /Title?0120338   (478 words)

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