The Titanic an unforgettable incident
The Titanic was a passenger liner which was built from
1909-1911. It was a luxury ship which had taken more then 2000 passengers from
Queenstown including some famous persons such as John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin
Guggenheim etc. It was called ‘the unsinkable’ by the engineers of this ship. On
11Th April 1912, on its maiden voyage it left the Queenstown to New
York in Atlantic. After 4 days of its voyage, at 11:40 p.m. when it was
crossing the Atlantic a massive ice berg which was 3 times more than the
weight of the Titanic struck to the ship. After 2 and a half hours the Titanic
sank in ocean in which more than a 1000 passengers died, only 700 passengers
survived. So why the ‘unsinkable’ sank?
During the construction of Titanic, a machine was introduced
which could make strong nails for the Titanic but there were many difficulties
of its transportation so people made the ship’s nails by their own. The metal
used in the making of nails was rod ion which was not stronger than steel but
the nails were made easily. These nails can tolerate less than 9000 pounds of
pressure but the pressure of ice burg was about 14000 pounds which was more
than the toleration limit of the nails used in Titanic. So that’s why Titanic
sank but there is a mystery that why the crewmen of the ship couldn't saw the
ice berg coming towards them?
This is because in
Atlantics the nights are very cold and it is very difficult to see anything
during night as our eyes become cold. The crewmen of Titanic found many
difficulties to see the ice berg coming towards them when they saw the ice berg
they tried to move the ship but the ship and the ice berg rub against each other
and the nails of the Titanic wore off making a big crack in which sank the
ship. The reason of that it was called the ‘unsinkable’ that sixteen
compartments were water tight as a result that the ship could float on the
ocean but the crack was too long that more than twenty compartments were
damaged which was capable to sink the ship
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