Who was navigating the titanic?

Question

At the time of the crash

Answer 1

A desperate man. Junior pilot.  The Captain was summoned to the bridge after the accident.  Engineers now say that if the Titanic had hit the iceberg head on, instead of abruptly turning and allowing it to be ripped down the side, that multiple chambers would likely not have leaked, and the ship would have stayed afloat.

Answer 2

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The Titanic was officially launched from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912. While the ship carried more than 2,200 passengers and crew, Titanic was equipped with only 16 lifeboats, with a capacity of 1,708. The White Star Line had decided to use only half the number of boats the Titanic could carry in order to alleviate what was referred to as a "cluttered" feeling on the main deck of the ship.

     The Titanic sailed first to Cherbourg, France, to pick up additional passengers, and then to Queenstown, Ireland, before setting out to sea for the transatlantic voyage to New York. The first three days of the voyage passed without incident, while the fourth did not.

     Although the Titanic had received five ice warnings throughout the day on April 14, Captain Edward Smith decided not to slow down and continued on at 21 knots (25 mph). At 11:40 PM, lookout FRED FLEET spotted an iceberg and notified the bridge. First Officer WILLIAM  MURDOCH then ordered the ship turned hard to port and the engine room was signaled to reverse direction. The ship did move slightly, but could not avoid the iceberg, which tore a 300 feet-long hole in the ship, causing compartments to begin filling with water.

     Twenty-five minutes after the crash, the ships officers ordered the lifeboats uncovered and began preparing the passengers and crew for evacuation. The first lifeboat was launched twenty minutes after the orders were given. Despite having a carrying capacity of 68, the first lifeboat launched with only 28 passengers. When the last boat launched, there were more than 1,500 passengers left on board. The lifeboats contained mostly women and children. However, J. Bruce Ismay managed to escape by sneaking onto one of the last lifeboats.

At approximately 2:10 AM, the stern, or rear of the ship, rose out of the water and shortly thereafter the weight of the raised stern caused the ship to split in two. The bow, or front of the ship, slowly sunk as the stern settled back into the water. Then, the stern filled with water until it disappeared into the ocean. More than 1,500 souls were lost in the "greatest maritime disaster in history".

     The first-class passengers for Titanic's maiden voyage included some of the richest and most prominent people in the world. They included millionaire John Jacob Astor IV and his pregnant wife Madeleine;  Macy's department store owner Isidor Straus; and  Denver millionaire Margaret "Molly" Brown (often called the "Unsinkable Molly Brown"--see http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/bio... for her story involving the Titanic and later on the Carpathia).  Both J. P. Morgan and Milton S. Hershey had plans to travel on the Titanic but cancelled their reservations before the voyage.

CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THE CRASH:

1. Excessive speed

2. Wasting time--After the collision, one hour was spent evaluating damage and making decisions before lowering the first lifeboat.

3. There were not enough lifeboats for all of the people on board. At the time, law required a minimum of sixteen lifeboats with capacity for 962 occupants for ships weighing 10,000 tons or larger. In 1912, the 52,000-ton Titanic had room for 3,547 passengers. Titanic had four extra collapsible lifeboats, bringing total lifeboat capacity to 1,178. In the busy North Atlantic sea lanes, it was expected that the emergency response from other vessels would be rapid and the lifeboats would only be used to ferry people between vessels, with boats from the rescuing vessels available as well.

4. Though all sixteen lifeboats were launched within  eighty minutes, some boats were launched with far less than capacity, the most notable being lifeboat #1.  With a capacity of forty, it was  launched with only twelve people aboard.  Included in the first launched were lifeboats 6, 7, and 8, each of which were equipped to hold sixty-five but were launched with only twenty-eight on board each boat.

5. Chivalry by passengers during the lifeboat evacuation led to the expression "Women and children first" becoming synonymous with the Titanic despite the fact that the practice originated 60 years earlier with the sinking of HMS Birkenhead..

OTHER MYTHS:

A similar legend states that the Titanic was given hull number 390904 (which, when seen in a mirror or written using mirror writing, looks like "NO POPE"). This is a myth.

    Titanic's yard number was 401; Olympic's was 400. Another myth states that Titanic was carrying a cursed Egyptian mummy, often named Princess of Amen-Ra. The mummy, nicknamed "Shipwrecker" after changing hands several times and causing many terrible things to happen to each of its owners, allegedly exacts its final revenge by sinking the famous ship.

    Another myth says that the bottle of champagne used in christening Titanic did not break on the first try, which in sea lore is said to be bad luck for a ship. In fact, Titanic was not christened on launching, as it was White Star Line's custom not to do so.

DISCOVERY:

    For seventy years after the disaster, it was widely believed that the Titanic had sunk intact. Although there were several passengers who insisted that the ship had broken in two as it sank , the inquiries believed the statements of the ship's officers and first-class passengers that it had sunk in one piece.

     No attempts even to locate the ship were successful until 1 September 1985, when a joint French-American expedition, led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Dr Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, sailing on the Research Vessel Knorr, discovered the wreck using the video camera sled Argo. It was found at a depth of 12,536 feet (3,821 m), south-east of Newfoundland at 41degrees°43 minutes 32 seconds″N, 49 deg.°56 min.′49sec.″W, 13 nautical miles (24 km) from where Titanic was originally thought to rest. The ship had indeed  broken in two, the stern section lying 1,970 feet (600 m) from the bow section with them  facing in opposite directions.

Last living survivor

Millvina Dean, who was only two months old at the time of the sinking, is the only living survivor of the Titanic. Currently ninety-six years old, Ms. Dean has remained active in Titanic-related events and resides in Southampton, England.

    

Survivors were rescued from the lifeboats by the RMS Carpathia. Of the 711 passengers rescued from the RMS Titanic, one, William Hoyt, died in a lifeboat during the night, and another five died on board the Carpathia and were buried at sea.  For a list of rescued passengers , go to the site  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pas...

Answer 3

Maybe this question should be in the history section

Answer 4

Edward John Smith was the captain.

Answer 5

why don't you look it up in a book or on reliable Internet sites, instead of relying on people who think George bush was captain of the titanic.

just a thought.