How Did the 'Unsinkable' Titanic

End Up at the Bottom of the Ocean?

 OWNED BY

This is a British shipping company. It is best known for its ill-fated luxury
transport ships such as RMS Titanic and its sister Britannic.
 Ill-fated ships
collided with
…

Iceberg Mine

Sank
(Sink)
The 'Unsinkable'
 Fact: People were not interested in
The Titanic was best known for its ..
whether the ship was unsinkable
The RMS Titanic was the biggest moveable
man-made object of her day. However, its
selling point was about the grandeur and
luxury, NOT its safety.

Royal Mail Ship Titanic

Most of the articles and advertisements for the Titanic focused on its size and
accommodations, NOT on the design’s details
Also, the affluent passengers who boarded the ship chose it for its prestige
and comfort.
 Design’s details

Unsinkable

Grandeur, luxury, prestige and comfort

 Dramatic Effect

Later, the “unsinkable” moniker really took off

TICKET PRICE
WOULD YOU SPEND $ 100,000
FOR SUCH AN EXPERIENCE
ON THE SEA?
It set off on its maiden voyage on 10th April 1912.
On the night of 14–15 April, the Titanic hit an iceberg and
sadly sank, with great loss of life.
 Unused Titanic ticket
This unused ticket to the Titanic's launch in 1911 is expected to sell for as
much as $70,000 at an auction on April 15, which is the 100th anniversary
of the ship's sinking.
DISASTE
Why Was It Such a Disaster?
There are many theories about why so many people died.
 ICEBERG
An iceberg is a really big piece of ice floating in the sea.
Icebergs can be bigger than houses.
Most of an iceberg can’t be seen because it is under water.

160 minutes The SS Californian

11:40 p.m.
April 14th The SS Mesaba
7 warnings

Icefield starless
heading slightly south

Speech: 22.5 kn
(Max: 23) 1,000,000,000 tons 30 seconds
(43 km/h)
 ICEFIELD
Captain Smith thought he avoided the ice field by sailing slightly south than the
reported ice sightings.
Therefore, he didn’t slow the ship down when it was actually in the ice field
(22.5/23 was the ship’s speed in knots ~ 43 km/h)
 30 seconds
The amount of time from the first sighting of the iceberg to the collision.
 160 minutes
The amount of time it took the Titanic to complete sink
 7 Iceberg Warnings has been ignored
Jack Phillips - is “Shut up,
handling passengers' old man, I'm
messages and never busy”
passes the warning on
to the Titanic's bridge

“Say, old man, we

are stopped and
“heavy pack ice and a great surrounded by ice”
number of large icebergs” #10:55 p.m.
#9:40 p.m.

SS Mesaba SS Californian
 LIFEBOAT
Lifeboats are little boats put onboard a ship. If the ship gets into problems,
passengers can get into lifeboats and sail away.

80 mins
1178 / >2000 60 mins after
To launched all
12:45 p.m.
boats
18 successful
2 floated away 3500 lifebelts
48 rings
useless
1st – 12/65
472 not drown but froze

Unsinkable belief
64 -> 48 -> 20
 Lifeboats
This is one of the major factors of the disaster:
• There were not enough lifeboats on board to hold all the passengers and
crew.
• There were 20 lifeboats, enough for 1178 people, but there were over 2000
people on the boat.
• When the 1st lifeboats were launched at 12:45 (60 minutes after the hit) ,
they were not full.
• Originally 48 lifeboats were supposed to be on Titanic, but it was reduced to
20 because they felt it too cluttered.
• Titanic also carried 3500 lifebelts and 48 life rings , but these were useless
in the icy water.
• Most people did not drown but froze to death.
• Lots of people thought that the call to the lifeboats was a drill so stayed
inside rather than entering the boat
 LIFEBOAT
Lifeboats are little boats put onboard a ship. If the ship gets into problems,
passengers can get into lifeboats and sail away.

80 mins
1178 / >2000 60 mins after
To launched all
12:45 p.m.
boats
18 successful
2 floated away 3500 lifebelts
48 rings
useless
1st – 12/65
472 not drown but froze

Unsinkable belief
64 -> 48 -> 20
 WHO SHOULD BE
RESPONSIBLE?
J. Bruce Ismaay Captain Smith Captain Lord
 WHY DIDN’T HE SLOW THE SHIP
DOWN?

Captain Smith

Captain Smith was the ship’s captain.

This voyage was his last as he was retiring. He
ignored seven iceberg warnings and kept the ship
going at its top speed
-> If he had slowed Titanic down the disaster
would not have happened.
 DID HE FORCE THE CAPTAIN
TO SPEED UP?
J. Bruce Ismay

Joseph Bruce Ismay was the chairman and

managing director of the White Star Line.
He wanted to show that Titanic could make a
six-day journey. To meet this schedule, the
Titanic couldn’t slow down. It is believed
Ismay put pressure on Captain Smith to
maintain the ship’s speed.
 The infamous coward of the Titanic !?
At 1:40 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the chairman of the White Star Line, with slippers
on his feet, stepped into the last lifeboat to leave

Should he brand him as a coward?

Or he just did what anyone else would've done
 The infamous coward of the Titanic !?
He was ushering women Nobody deserves to live
and children into more than ourselves. We are
lifeboats. He waited until all noble person
the very last lifeboat to
get in, and he was the last
one to get on. Where is the gender
equality?

He took the seat only

because it was available Giving up your seat on
and there was no one a lifeboat for a random
else there to take it. woman is not
chivalrous, manly. It’s
not courteous, it’s
His survival did not just stupid.
cost any woman or
child their life
Dying for honor is just dumb

Even though he wanted more speed, the captain makes

that choice, Captain Smith holds that blame.
 Would you give up
your seat on a
lifeboat for a woman/child?
3.5->4 hours
RMS Carpathia
 WHY DIDN’T IT HELP?
Captain Lord’s fault

Captain Lord was the Californian’s captain. He turned off the

radio at around 11.15, so they didn’t get the distress message.
The crew saw rockets from the Titanic and told him, but he
concluded that the Titanic was having a party.
The Californian did not help.

-> If the Californian had turned on the radio, the distress

message would have been heard, and the Californian would
have reached the Titanic in time to save the passengers
 THIRD
CONDITION
If he had slowed Titanic down the disaster would
not have happened.

If the Californian had turned on the radio, the

distress message would have been heard, and the
Californian would have reached the Titanic in
time to save the passengers
 IF [had + Ved/V3], … would (not) have + Ved/V3

1. If the Titanic had not left (not leave) Ireland, it would not have sunk (not sink).

2. If the Titanic (travel) slowly, it (miss) the iceberg.

3. If the captain (listen) to the warnings, he (be) more careful.

4. If the lookouts (see) the iceberg earlier, they (tell) the captain in time to save the ship.

5. If the Titanic (not hit) the iceberg, it (not sink).

6. If there (be) more lifeboats, fewer people (die).

7. If the Titanic (not sink), it (arrive) in New York

 OLD STORY CHAIN

Student 1: If I had not come to London, I would have gone to New York.

Student 2: If I had gone to New York, I would have visited the Empire State

Building.

Student 3: If I had visited the Empire State Building, I would have taken a photo.

Student 4: If I had taken a photo, I would have sent it to my mum

CROSSWORD