While the general concensus as to why Titanic sank is: "the Ship hit an iceberg;" in fact, the sinking resulted from a whole series of circumstances.

Titanic was designed with a series of transverse bulkheads, separating her into 16 "water-tight" compartments. Unfortunately, these bulkheads, while extending above the water-line, were not capped with water-tight decks. Her designers considered a breach between two compartments a worse case scenario, and in fact designed her to float with any four compartments flooded.

You have to realize the time period in which Titanic was built. The gilded age was an era when new and wondrous things were happening every day. The Titanic's shear size gave an impression of invulnerability. Most people don't realize it, but the White Star line never actually claimed Titanic was unsinkable. This line was made popular by the press of the time, and maybe a few over-zealous shipyard workmen.

The keel for Titanic was laid in March 1909, and her hull was launched May, 1911. She was then towed to a fitting out basin where her interiors were installed. She was completed in Feb 1912. So it basically took 3 years to build the Titanic.

In metropolitan New Orleans, we sink approximately 3 feet per century or about 1 inch every 2 ? years. Along the Louisiana coast, some areas are subsiding at the rate of 6 feet per century or 1 inch per year! We will continue to subside, but for different amounts in different places. Research indicates that the rates of subsidence are not constant, but appear to be episodic in some areas.

Pretty darn well! After receiving 14 nominations, "Titanic" won 11 tying "Ben Hur" (1959) for the most Oscars for a single film. The winners are: It's kind of hard for us to remember that this euphoria and this success is for a film that's based on a real event that happened, where real people died, that shocked the world in 1912. I'd just like everybody to go with me for just a second.

Under admiralty law, the owner of a ship retains rights to its wreck, unless the owner abandons it or an unusually long period of time has passed since the vessel sank. In those situations (as was the case with the Titanic) an admiralty court can name another party "salvor in possession" of the wreck if that party lays claim to it by recovering objects from the site. To maintain its exclusive rights to the wreck, the salvor-in-possession must continue to actively work the wreck site.

A - No. It appears that no one from the White Star Line actually stated this officially. The press of 1912 reported the following after the disaster "...and they said she was unsinkable. Who was "they?" The nautical magazine Shipbuilder, while publishing articles about the engineering feats accomplished in building Titanic, wrote "With Titanic's transverse bulkheads and watertight doors, it renders this vessel practically unsinkable.

The Mersy Inquiry determined that there were 1,316 passsengers on board: 325 in first-class, 285 in second, and 706 in third-class. At the time of the sinking, the Ship's crew consisted of 885 men and women divided between three departments: Deck Department, 66; Engine Department, 325; Victualling (Passenger Care) Department, 494. Not included in this list are the eight members of the Ship's band who were technically from another company and traveled under second-class tickets.

White Star publicly announced their intention of building the Titanic in 1907 during the maiden voyage of RMS Lusitania, owned by their archrival the Cunard Line. This was done in an attempt to get some of the publicity being lavished on the Cunarder and draw attention to the new, larger Titanic, to follow five years later.

The White Star Line decided to build three identical ships, called "sister ships" from the one set of plans that Harland and Wolff was preparing. These ships were later given the names "Olympic", "Titanic", and "Britannic". It was common for steamship companies to build several ships from the same plans. A great deal of money could be saved this way since engineers only had to draw up one set of blueprints for the whole series of ships.

Originally, the wireless signal for a ship in distress was cqd, but in 1908 a new signal, sos, was introduced since the combination of three dots, three dashes, and three dots could be easily recognized by even the greenest amateur. Records show that the sos call was used at least as early as 10 June 1909, by the Cunard liner SS Slavonia.

R: You can move forwards and backwards or turn around with your arrow keys. Signs on board of the Titanic will help you with the other functions like running, changing your camera view point and even flying around! R: The Titanic 3D is a visualisation made by Emmanuel Asset, based on the original plans and drawings. Susan Katarzis made the Avatars and clothing after research on the original clothes during those times.

RMS" means "Royal Mail Ship". (Some say "steamer.") This title shows that the Titanic had a charter from the British government to carry British (i.e., the royal) Mail. Occasionally the prefix HMS (His Majesty's Ship) is seen in print, but that usage is incorrect since H.M.S. is reserved for British war ships. The names "Olympic", "Titanic", and "Gigantic" come from Greek mythology. The ancient Greeks believed that the universe created the gods, not the other way around.

The Titanic was described in the popular press as "practically unsinkable". This was not unusual ? for decades, ships had watertight compartments to limit flooding in case of an accident, and the press used this phrase as a matter of routine for many years. After the Titanic sank, the story of her loss was turned into a modern fable and the original description "practically unsinkable" became just "unsinkable" in order to sharpen the moral of the story.

The Titanic's distress call was received by several ships the night of the disaster including the Carpathia, Mount Temple, Virginian, Baltic, Caronia, Prinz Fredrich Wilhelm, Frankfurt, and the Titanic's sister ship the Olympic. Initially, several of these ships altered course towards the collision site, but when it became apparent that Carpathia alone would make it to the scene of the accident in reasonable time, they resumed their previous courses.

While it is true that the steel used in the Titanic's construction was inferior to the steel produced today, nobody has demonstrated that chemical impurities or physical properties of the steel in anyway contributed to the loss of the vessel or the lives with which she had been entrusted.

The White Star Line decided to build three identical ships, called “sister ships” from the one set of plans that Harland and Wolff was preparing. These ships were later given the names “Olympic,” “Titanic,” and “Britannic.” It was common for steamship companies to build several ships from the same plans. A great deal of money could be saved this way since engineers only had to draw up one set of blueprints for the whole series of ships.

Originally, the wireless signal for a ship in distress was cqd, but in 1908 a new signal, sos, was introduced since the combination of three dots, three dashes, and three dots could be easily recognized by even the greenest amateur. Records show that the sos call was used at least as early as 10 June 1909, by the Cunard liner SS Slavonia.