Melting Icebergs

In the year 1912, the tragedy of the “Unsinkable” R.M.S (Royal Mail Steamer) Titanic occurred, but why? According to www.historyonthenet.com, there are many possibilities why the Titanic has an early grave, 12,500 feet under water, resting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Historians have argued over the possibilities ever since the incident had occurred. They believe the Titanic sank because of human error. Three of the many human errors that occurred on April 14,1912, are first of all…

Imagine being in a plane and it randomly goes down over the Bermuda Triangle. Also known as the Devil’s Triangle, Bermuda Triangle is a general area in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean where planes and ships have mysteriously disappeared over the years. It received it’s name from a magazine after an extremely popular disappearance known as Flight 19. Nobody knows for sure if the Bermuda Triangle is real because science cannot explain many disappearances including the USS Cyclops, Ellen…

Writing.engr.psu.edu is an infromational website that provides insight on the history of the Titanic, what caused the Titanic to sink, and the effects of the disaster. This article supplies crucial information on the timeline of the ship's sinking, the mechanical failure, and the design flaws. “Causes and Effects of the Rapid Sinking of the Titanic” provides awareness to how new laws and regulations were made after the tragic sinking of the Titanic. Vicki Bassett is the writer of the article…

The 1910s was at the end of the Progressive Era where it introduced a plethora of new events and forms of technology. This decade proposed new ideas and concepts that had not been talked about before in the history of the United States such as the fights for women's rights and poor working conditions for white-collar jobs. This decade had its boom and bust cycles along with new presidents that shifted the course of America. The 1910s had many events that make it history, the sinking of the…

Birkenhead Drill Birkenhead Drill was a military ship. In February 1851, it was going to South Africa with troops and their families. There were a total of six hundred and thirty people on board out of which one hundred and seventy were women and children. The rest were inexperienced military men and officers. At 2 a.m. on 25th February, when this ship was near Cape Town, it strokes a massive rock that was not shown on any of the maps. This sudden jerk broke the ship into two pieces. The front…

it happened in “A Night to Remember” we are introduced into different perceptions of the titanic hitting an iceberg. This a story about the sinking of the titanic. The author use different perceptions of the incident to give more depth to the feeling the passengers had when they hit something The author did this to make a broader explanation of how it felt when the titanic struck the iceberg. One of these perceptions were Frederick Fleet’s Fleet was a lookout for the titanic. They did not…

built in Belfast in Northern Ireland. The designer of the RMS Titanic is Thomas Andrews the captain is Edward Smith he was born in January 27 1850 he died with his ship. On the of day April 15 1912 it was around one in the morning the ship had hit an iceberg on the right side of the ship a lot of people died it took 160 minutes for it to sink. There were many famous on the ship that died and survived... Masabumi Hosono he wasn’t famous he was the only Japanese…

The Titanic Introduction, The Titanic was launched at 11:40pm on the night of April 14, 1912.The Titanic was 269.9 meters the length of the Titanic was 882 feet 9 inches. It was 825 tons, the amount of coal used for the ship to move is 825 tons used per day. The amount of light bulbs used on the ship was 10,000. First, the cost to build the Titanic was $7,500,000. Two of the workers were killed during the build. 20 horses needed to transport the main anchor. It took three years to build…

“Large patches of ice and many Icebergs.” says a warning from the radio of the Caronia. There were many of these warnings. Some were ignored and some not taken seriously. I find the radio workers and the lookouts guilty of the sinking of the Titanic. But why was if their fault? Here is why these people’s actions caused the sinking of the Titanic. The radio workers, almost as soon as the ship left for sea, were getting warnings of floating ice and Icebergs in their way further out in the…

Haven't you ever wondered who was responsible for the deaths that took place at the Titanic Disaster? The Titanic was one of the biggest ships ever to set sail. The Titanic was also one of the few ships in 1912 to have little lifeboat space for its passengers The person you would need to talk to would be Captain Stanley Philip Lord. Since he was the one that did not respond correctly to the flares shot by the Titanic, he had absolutely no experience with ice fields, and as Captain of the ship he…