What is the name of the ship that sank in 1912?

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley On April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage, sailing from Southampton, England, to New York City. Four days later the Titanic an enduring legend. Timeline • On March 31, 1909, construction of the Titanic begins in Belfast, Ireland. • On May 31, 1911, the Titanic is launched, and later the fitting-out phase starts. • The maiden voyage begins on April 10, 1912, as the ship leaves • On April 11, 1912, the Titanic makes its final European stop, at Queenstown ( • On April 14, 1912, an iceberg is spotted at 11:35 PM, but it is too late to avoid a collision. • On April 15, 1912, at 12:15 AM the first distress signals are sent. • At 12:20 AM the Carpathia rushes toward the Titanic. • At 12:45 AM the first lifeboats are lowered. • At 2:18 AM the Titanic’s bow sinks. • At 2:20 AM the Titanic founders. • At 3:30 AM survivors are rescued by the Carpathia. • On September 1, 1985, the shipwreck is discovered by an expedition led by Ship Size The Titanic was 882 feet 6 inches (269 metres) long. Percentage of Total Fatalities • 68% of the total people on board died. • 45% of the first- and second-class passengers died. • 75% of the third-class passengers died. • 78% of the crew died. The Path of the Titanic A maps shows the path the Titanic took. First, it was constructed in Belfast, Ireland. The ship started its voyage at Southampton, England. The Titanic made its first stop at Cherbourg, France. The Titanic made it...

It was traveling too fast. From the beginning, some blamed the Titanic’s skipper, Captain E.J. Smith, for sailing the massive ship at such a high speed (22 knots) through the iceberg-heavy waters of the North Atlantic. Some believed Smith was trying to better the crossing time of Titanic’s White Star sister ship, the Olympic. But in a 2004 paper, engineer Robert Essenhigh The wireless radio operator dismissed a key iceberg warning. Less than an hour before the Titanic hit the iceberg, another nearby ship, the Californian, radioed to say it had been stopped by dense field ice. But as the warning didn’t begin with the prefix “MSG” (Master’s Service Gram), which would have required the captain to directly acknowledge receiving the message, the Titanic’s radio operator Jack Phillips considered the other ship’s warning non-urgent, and It may have taken a fatal wrong turn. According to a Good as Gold. The Titanic’s builders tried to cut costs. In 1985, when an American-French expedition finally located the historic wreck, investigators discovered that, contrary to earlier findings, the Titanic had not sunk intact after hitting the iceberg but had broken apart on the ocean’s surface. Materials scientists Tim Foecke and Jennifer Hooper McCarty Mirages and hazy horizons were created by weather conditions. Two studies done around the time of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster in 2012 suggested that nature played a key role in the ship’s fate. The first argued that the Ear...

The RMS Titanic, a luxury steamship, sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic after sideswiping an iceberg during its maiden voyage. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew on board, more than 1,500 lost their lives in the disaster. Titanic has inspired countless books, articles and films (including the 1997 “Titanic” movie starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio), and the ships story has entered the public consciousness as a cautionary tale about the perils of human hubris. The Building of the RMS Titanic The Titanic was the product of intense competition among rival shipping lines in the first half of the 20th century. In particular, the White Star Line found itself in a battle for steamship primacy with Cunard, a venerable British firm with two standout ships that ranked among the most sophisticated and luxurious of their time. Cunard’s Mauretania began service in 1907 and quickly set a speed record for the fastest average speed during a transatlantic crossing (23.69 knots or 27.26 mph), a title that it held for 22 years. Cunard’s other masterpiece, Did you know? Passengers traveling first class on Titanic were roughly 44 percent more likely to survive than other passengers. The same year that Cunard unveiled its two magnificent liners, J. Bruce Ismay, chief executive of White Star, discussed the construction of three large ships with William J. Pirrie, chairman of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff. Part of a n...

On April 10, 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic left its port in Southampton, England, and began the transatlantic journey to New York City in the United States. Considered unsinkable, Titanic served as a luxury ocean liner for over 2,000 passengers and crew. On April 15, Titanic sank in just over two and a half hours after colliding with an iceberg. More than one hundred years later, National Geographic Education marks the anniversary of one of the greatest maritime tragedies in history. From Titanic’s construction in Belfast, Ireland, to its discovery under icy waters by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Robert Ballard and oceanographer Jean-Louis Michel in 1985, the Titanic has long captivated the public mind. Use this collection of multimedia education resources to contextualize the anniversary for your students.

ON APRIL 15, 1912, a tiny vessel measuring no more than 170 metres in length was thrust into the limelight after answering a distress signal from the RMS Titanic. The RMS Carpathia was operating as a cruise ship at the time, under the command of Captain Arthur H. Rostron, but when the call came through about the Titanic, the ship’s crew quickly sprang into action. Their actions saved countless lives and yet the RMS Carpathia has all but faded from history in the decades since. Here are 12 things you never knew about the ship that saved Titanic's survivors. 1. The Carpathia was launched by the Sawn Hunter & Wigham Richardson Company from their shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1902. It initially operated as a transatlantic service for immigrants eager to travel to America before being refitted as a cruise ship in 1905. 2. By January 1912, Carpathia was operating under the command of Captain Rostron, making made transatlantic crossings that brought immigrants to America and the wealthy to the Mediterranean for pleasure cruises. It had embarked on one such cruise on April 11th, 1912 with some 700 people on board. 3. Just a few days into their voyage, the Carpathia’s wireless operator heard the Titanic’s S.O.S and C.Q.D. calls. Captain Roston was summoned from his cabin in the middle of the night. He immediately ordered the ship to assist the sinking liner. They set off at full stream through an ice field to reach the Titanic, which was 60 miles away. 4. As the ship made its ...

IT'S ONE of the world's most famous and tragic catastrophes-- but it could have been entirely avoided. On this day, 109 years ago, thousands of people were fighting for their lives on board the Titanic. On the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the Belfast-built ship which was largest and most impressive ever built at the time, crashed into an iceberg as it made its way towards New York City on its maiden voyage. In the early hours of 15 April, 1912, the enormous ship, ironically advertised as 'unsinkable', began to drop into the icy waters of the Atlantic-- along with the 2,200 souls on board. 1,500 people perished when the Titanic plunged into the icy depths of the Atlantic ocean, many succumbing to the cold or drowning in the glassy dark waters. The ill-fated White Star liner RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) The Chief Radio Operator, Jack Phillips, was called 'the man who saved us all' as he remained at his post sending distress signals to any nearby ships calling for emergency assistance. He stayed on board until the water began lapping at his feet, and later became one of the 1,500 casualties of the disaster-- but not before he successfully contacted the Carpathia, which saved 705 lives. The Carpathia was stationed 58 miles (107km) away, and travelled at extreme speed through the icy waters to save as many as they could, despite knowing that icebergs were hiding in the ...