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Titanic Disaster: Causes and Consequences

The document summarizes key details about the sinking of the Titanic in three paragraphs: 1) It introduces the Titanic as a British passenger ship believed to be unsinkable, but it struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage from England to America on April 14, 1912, resulting in about 1,500 deaths. 2) It describes the sequence of events from when the iceberg was spotted to when different parts of the ship sank below the surface. 3) It discusses factors that contributed to the sinking, including the brittle steel and rivets used in the ship's construction as well as design flaws with the watertight compartments, and measures that could have prevented the large

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Titanic Disaster: Causes and Consequences

The document summarizes key details about the sinking of the Titanic in three paragraphs: 1) It introduces the Titanic as a British passenger ship believed to be unsinkable, but it struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage from England to America on April 14, 1912, resulting in about 1,500 deaths. 2) It describes the sequence of events from when the iceberg was spotted to when different parts of the ship sank below the surface. 3) It discusses factors that contributed to the sinking, including the brittle steel and rivets used in the ship's construction as well as design flaws with the watertight compartments, and measures that could have prevented the large

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INTRODUCTION

TITANIC was a British


passangers ship.
 It was an enormous ship and a lot
of people thought its was
unsinkable unfortunately, that
wasn’t true.
 Titanic sank on its first journey
from England to America on 14th
April 1992.
 It was terrible disaster and about
1500 people died.
issues
11:35 pm Lookouts spot the iceberg ¼ mile ahead.

11:40 The titanic sideswipes the iceberg, damaging nearly 300 feet of the hull.
Midnight Watertight compartment are filling; water begins to spill over the tops of the
transverse bulkheads.
1:20 am the bow pitches; water floods through anchor-chain holes.
2.00 The bow continues to submerge; propellers lift out of the water.
2:10 The titanic tilts 45 degrees or more; the upper structure steel disintegrates.
2:12 The stern raise up out of the water; the bow, filling with water, grows heavier.

2:18 Weighing 16000 tons, the bow rips loose; the stern rises to almost vertical.
2:20 The stern slips beneath the surface.
2:29 Coasting at about 13 mph, the stern strikes the ocean floor.
2:56 Falling at about 4 mph, the stern strikes the ocean flo
factors
1.material failure
 The hull steel
 The rivets

2.DeSign flaws
The hull steel
 The causes of brittle fracture
include low temperature, high
impact loading, and high sulphur
content. The water temperature
was below freezing, the Titanic
was travelling at a high speed on
impact with the iceberg, and the
hull steel contained high level
sulphur.
 There was CHARPY IMPACT
TEST conducted on a specimen
of the hull steel.
The rivets
 The wrought iron rivets
that fastened the hull
plates to the Titanic’s
main structure also
failed because of brittle
fracture from the high
impact loading of
collision with the
iceberg and the low
temperature water on
the night of the disaster.
DESIGN FLAWS
 Although the compartments were
called watertight, they were
actually only watertight
horizontally; their tops were open
and the walls extended only a few
feet above the waterline.
 Some of the scientists studying the
disaster have even concluded that
the watertight compartments
contributed to the disaster by
keeping the flood waters in the
bow of the ship.
Correction measures
 Heedwarnings
 Adequate lifeboats
Heed warnings
 Ice warnings- 21 in all over the
course of the journey’s first four
days were either ignored or
missed.
 One of Titanic’s last calls of
distress was received by the SS
Birma.
Adequate lifeboats
 Titanic only carried enough
lifeboats for 1,178 people – slightly
more than half of the number on
board, and one-third her total
capacity.
 And when launched those lifeboats
were filled below capacity.
CONCLUSION
The steel used in constructing the Titanic was
probably the best plain carbon ships 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.
Whether a ship constructed of modern steel would
have suffered as much damage as the Titanic.
THANK YOU

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