Some questions on the RMS Titanic?

Question

Ok everyone theses are just some questions that have been picking at my mind for a while now. Thanks!

1) The ports if call along the route , including where it set sail.

2) The built in safety factor.

3) the details on the collision and sinking of the ship ( I dont really understand? ).

4) The relative location of first-class, second-class and third class passengers with respect to the location of the life boats and stairwells.

:) Thank you for relieving this little annoying voice in my head hjaha it likes to know answers as soon as it has questions.

Answer 1

Just google Titanic. You will come up with lots of information.

Answer 2

She left Southampton, calling at Cherbourg a few hours later.  Then she went to Queenstown (now Cobh) Ireland before sailing to her doom.

The watertight doors.  They could be activated automatically, or from a switch on the bridge.  The watertight bulkheads went no higher than E deck, allowing water to pour over the tops of the bulkheads into the next compartment aft.  If the damage wasn't as extensive, she would have remained afloat.  But the flooding of five compartments was enough to force Titanic's bow down far enough to start the progressive flooding over the tops of the bulkheads.

At 11:40 P.M., she struck an iceberg with a glancing blow along the starboard (right-side) bow (front), opening up at least five compartments to the sea (this is still a source of debate.  There is evidence that as many as seven compartments were opened to the sea).  The iceberg didn't tear a gash in the hull - damage of that magnitude would have sunk the ship within minutes.  What the iceberg did do was a bump and grind along the hull, knocking out some rivets here, separating plates there, maybe even opening a small gash or two along the way.  At around 2:17 A.M., the Titanic 's stern (rear) was far enough out of the water to put stress on a weak point in the hull, causing the ship to break in two on the surface.  This process was helped along by the inferior steel used in the construction of the ship - a type of steel discontinued in 1948.  It had a tendency to become brittle at low temperature, and the temperature of the sea in the locality of the iceberg was 28 degrees Fahrenheit - the freezing point of seawater. The two sections may have been joined for awhile at the keel (bottom), but the two sections eventually separated, the stern disappearing from view a few minutes later.

The first-class accomodations were right in the general vicinity of the boats - in many cases, one deck below them.

The second class were a few decks further down, and the third class were at the bottom of the ship, mostly gathered near the bow and the stern.  Stairwells (and in the case of the first class, elevators) were located throughout the ship.  For more particulars on their location, consult the blueprints of the ship.

Answer 3

1. the ship started in South Hampton England stopped in Le Havre France and then to New York City. 2. The ship had many water tight sections of the ship it could stay afloat with as many as 5 flooded. The water tight doors that separated the water tight sections could be closed by a switch on the ships bridge. 3. The ship side swiped an iceberg this opened the ship up and 6 of the water tight sections flooded. The water tight walls that separate the water tight sections only went so high so as the ship became more heavy with water the wall would over flow with water this is like an ice cube tray fill 6 of the cubes and the tray will start to tilt down on the flooded end until the water fills the next cube and this will happen one after the other until the tray sinks same for the Titanic.4. The 1st class passengers were in the top section of the ship the parts that are painted white the next decks down were the 2nd class passengers and crew. The 3rd class passengers were in the lowest sections in the stern area. all of these people had to go to the 1st class section to board the life boats. the problem was that by the time the 1st and 2nd class passengers boarded the life boats there wasn't any more. another problem was the order women and children 1st. some families refused to be separated and others like the 3rd class passengers were never given the chance due to confusion among the crew.

Answer 4

Have you watched the movie?  Most of your questions would be answered.  I think it set sail from enland and stopped in ireland, or vice versa, before heading to the US, which it obviously never arrived.

As far as the build, there was something wrong with the iron/steel they used.  It was much more brittle than they thought, even for the standards of that day.  It was much more prone to crack, especially in the cold water.

On the collision, it hit an iceberg, which is much bigger under water than on the surface.  If it hit head on, most people agree that it probably would have survived.  But, it hit the worst possible way, along the front edge of the ship, and continued grazing along the whole front side, cracking rivets and the hull along the way.  Because of this, the water tight chambers in the hull were breached with water, and filled up and spilled over onto the next, and so on.  If 1 or 2 water chambers were filled with water, it would have been ok.  But too many were filled with water, so the unsinkable factor didn't hold up.

3th class was held in steerage, on the bottom most deck. 1st and 2nd class were accomodated up above on the upper floors, 1st class being the highest.

The life boats were on the deck of the boat, closes to 1st class.  Stairwells where located thoughout the ship, accessbile to all classes, as well as elevators.