History of the Titanic

Royal Mail Steamer Titanic was the biggest and finest passenger ship constructed by an industrial leader , White Star Line. Along with Titanic, there were other two ships named RMS Britannic and RMS Olympic whose designing began in 1907.

Construction of Titanic
On 31st March 1909 the construction of Titanic started. Two ships named Titanic and Olympic started at the began at the same time. Harland and Wolf were the ship builders for the White Star Line. Titanic was 882 feet long and 92 feet in width. The Titanic construction was very difficult task and took three years to complete the construction. The total cost of Titanic was around $7.5 million. Finally Titanic was launched on May 1911 but was ready for service from 1912.

Interior of Titanic

White Star Line wanted the Titanic to depict the modern and latest technology and the biggest luxury ship ever. The most lavish furnitures were used in Titanic. Bathrooms had modern type of bath tubs, Turkish bath, showers and even flushing toilets. There was gymnasium for workout, Table tennis to play and indoor swimming pool for the guests. There were huge dining rooms and lounges for drinking. There were three types of rooms- First class, second class and third class rooms.

First Class- Titanic provided 39 private suites in First class. The suites included private bathrooms, two bedrooms and two wardrobe rooms. It had first class reception area, first class dining room, first class lounge and smoking area.

Second Class - This class could accommodate 550 passengers. Second Class was provided with second class dining room, smoke room and library.

Third Class - Third Class rooms were general rooms but White Star Line had given much consideration than other class. There were around 1000 passengers in third class compartment in Titanic. It had dining room and smoke room.

Titanic Voyage
Titanic started its first journey on 10th April 1912 with 2216 passengers from Southampton, England to set out for New York.
People believed that Titanic was unsinkable because 70,000 tons of steel is not sinkable.

Titanic Sink
On 14th April 1912, Titanic struck an iceberg. Around 11.40 pm, iceberg stuck in the path of the ship and a sharp turn was ordered but the iceberg hit the right side of the ship and damaged the part. Initially only 5 compartments were flooded later the water was able to enter through the normal opening leading to flood 2 more compartments. Finally Titanic was completely flooded and started to sink.

Also there were not enough life boats. Titanic was capable of carrying 64 life boats but decided to carry only 16 of them. Women and children were carried to the lifeboats and hence many men could not board the life boats. Finally Titanic sank at 2.20am and more than 1500 people died.

Why did the biggest and largest Titanic sunk?
Some of them believed that it was Captain E.J Smith's fault because he ignored the ice berg's warning from his crew members and other ships. This disaster would have not happened if Captain had slowed down the ship.

Others believed that it was ship builders fault. According to the findings the rivets of the Titanic were made up of sub--standard iron and hence when ship hit the iceberg , the heads of rivets broke and this caused Titanic to fall apart.