Titanic

RMS Titanic was a passenger steamer world's largest, when he departed on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York on April 10, 1912. Four days into the voyage, at 23:40 on April 14, 1912, which hit an iceberg and sank at 2:20 the next morning, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people in a disaster maritime deadliest peacetime history. (Beesley, 145)

A passenger ship of the Olympic class, RMS Titanic was owned by White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. Headed to New York with 2,227 people on board. The high rate of casualties when the ship sank due in part to the fact that, despite meeting the standards of the time, led the ship's lifeboats for only 1,178 people. A disproportionate number of men killed by women and children first protocol that was followed. (Brown,15)

Titanic was designed by some of the most experienced engineers, and used some of the most advanced technologies available at the time. It was a great surprise to many that, despite extensive safety features, the Titanic sank. The frenzy by the media about the famous Titanic victims, the legends about the sinking, the resulting changes to maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck have contributed to interest in the Titanic.

Titanic was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom and is designed to compete with the rival Cunard Line Lusitania and Mauritania. Titanic, along with its Olympic-class sisters, Olympic and Britannic soon-to-be-built (it would be called Giant at first), were destined to be the largest, most luxurious ships ever to operate . The designers were Lord Pirrie, director of both Harland and Wolff and White Star, the naval architect Thomas Andrews, manager of Harland and Wolff of the building and head of design department, and Alexander Carlisle, keynote speaker and general manager of the shipyard. Carlisle responsibilities include decoration, equipment and all arrangements in general, including the implementation of a design of lifeboat davit efficient. Carlisle would leave the project in 1910, before the boats were launched when he became a shareholder in Welin Davit and Engineering Company Ltd, the company takes the gallows. (Lynch, 15)

The construction of the RMS Titanic, funded by JP Morgan and American International Mercantile Marine Co., began on March 31, 1909. Titanic's hull was launched on May 31, 1911, and his equipment was completed on March 31 next year. Its total length is 882 feet, 9 inches (269. 1 m), the breadth 92 feet 0 inches (28.0 m), the tonnage of 46,328 gross registered tons, and the height from water line to boat cover 59 ft (18 m). She was equipped with two reciprocating four-cylinder, triple expansion steam engines and one low pressure Parsons turbine, each driving a propeller. There were 29 boilers of 159 coal furnaces that made possible a top speed of 23 knots (43 km / h, 26 mph). Only three of the four 62 feet (19 m) funnels were functional: the fourth, which only serves ...