[24] This message never reached Captain Smith or the other officers on Titanic's bridge. Ida Straus, the wife of Macy's department store co-owner and former member of the United States House of Representatives Isidor Straus, told her husband: "We have been living together for many years. It would be difficult to find anyone unfamiliar with the Titanic. [203], Those on Carpathia were startled by the scene that greeted them as the sun rose: "fields of ice on which, like points on the landscape, rested innumerable pyramids of ice. Were they told not to because they knew it was going to f***ing sink anyways? Mia asks, also noting that the number of portholes were not matching up. [175] Ballard argued that many other survivors' accounts indicated that the ship had broken in two as she was sinking. 14 headed back to the site of the sinking, almost all of those in the water were dead and only a few voices could still be heard. New York's mooring cables could not take the sudden strain and snapped, swinging her around stern-first towards Titanic. [22] This too was acknowledged by Smith, who showed the report to J. Bruce Ismay, the chairman of the White Star Line, aboard Titanic for her maiden voyage. Fleet asked, "Is there anyone there?" During World War I, she would have It also had 28people on board, among them the "unsinkable" Margaret "Molly" Brown. [215] The bodies of most of Titanic's victims were never recovered, and the only evidence of their deaths was found 73years later among the debris on the seabed: pairs of shoes lying side by side, where bodies had once lain before eventually decomposing. [122], By this time, it was clear to those on Titanic that the ship was indeed sinking and there would not be enough lifeboat places for everyone. WebWhat if the Titanic Never Sank? He and Phillips had just got into a fistfight a minute earlier with a crewman who Bride thought was "a stoker, or someone from below decks", who had sneaked into the radio cabin and attempted to steal Phillips's lifebelt. Titanic would have lasted just as long as her sister ship Olympic from 1912, as a great luxurious liner til the building of the liner Queen Ma 15 as it was being lowered. The sudden deceleration caused the bow's structure to buckle downwards by several degrees just forward of the bridge. Wilding suggested this scenario at the British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry following the disaster, but his view was discounted. Similarly, five of six first-class and all second-class children survived, but 52 of the 79 in third class perished. Several responded, of which RMSCarpathia was the closest, at 58 miles (93km) away. The disaster shocked the world and caused widespread outrage over the lack of lifeboats, lax regulations, and the unequal treatment of third-class passengers during the evacuation. Well magically, by the Grace of God, by the Grace of Jesus, the Titanic had 16 portholes on the side of it the day that it left. Neither man survived. No one was very much alarmed but knew we had struck something. 12, with 74people aboard a boat designed to carry 65. If too many compartments were flooded, the ship's bow would settle deeper in the water, and water would spill from one compartment to the next in sequence, rather like water spilling across the top of an ice cube tray. Throughout James Camerons film, many characters voice the myth of the Titanic s unsinkability out loud. Hawke of the Isle of Wight. Her sinking two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 (ship's time; 05:18 GMT) on Monday, 15 April, resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. [101], Meanwhile, other crewmen fought to maintain vital services as water continued to pour into the ship below decks. [241] The figures below are from the British Board of Trade report on the disaster. [63] The ship was listing five degrees to starboard and was two degrees down by the head within a few minutes of the collision. [45], The gaps, the longest of which measures about 39 feet (12m) long, appear to have followed the line of the hull plates. The radio operator, Jack Phillips, may have failed to grasp its significance because he was preoccupied with transmitting messages for passengers via the relay station at Cape Race, Newfoundland; the radio set had broken down the day before, resulting in a backlog of messages that the two operators were trying to clear. 1514 lives were lost, and a Proximity to the lifeboats thus became a key factor in determining who got into them. So what if we just sent the Olympic out instead, sank that hoe, claim some insurance money and then just scrap the Titanic like it was the Olympic for some spare parts.. 1997-present: The Olympic becomes the ultimate Titanic museum experience, and is probably one of the most iconic maritime museums in history. We dont know where she [SS Californian] went, but it was not the Titanic, Mia says. WebWhat If The Titanic Never Sank?Subscribe To Life's Biggest Questions: http://bit.ly/2evqECeSupport Us On PATREON: http://bit.ly/2xOvaE7One of the biggest Even if the Hindenburg didn't burn, this problem would have needed to be addressed for safety concerns. [22] Captain Smith acknowledged receipt of the message. He had four decades of seafaring experience and had served as captain of RMSOlympic, from which he was transferred to command Titanic. The submerged bow may have remained attached to the stern by the keel for a short time, pulling the stern to a high angle before separating and leaving the stern to float for a few moments longer. [157], Archibald Gracie was also heading aft, but as he made his way towards the stern he found his path blocked by "a mass of humanity several lines deep, covering the boat deck, facing us"[158] hundreds of steerage passengers, who had finally made it to the deck just as the last lifeboats departed. The deteriorating situation was reflected in the tone of the messages sent from the ship: "We are putting the women off in the boats" at 01:25, "Engine room getting flooded" at 01:35, and at 01:45, "Engine room full up to boilers. Hurst, deeply moved by the swimmer's valor, reached out to him with an oar, but the man was dead. "[97] Smith then ordered Lightoller and Murdoch to "put the women and children in and lower away". Where you go, I go. 6 boiler room and escaped just before the room's watertight door closed. Smith was observed all around the decks, personally overseeing and helping to load the lifeboats, interacting with passengers, and trying to instil urgency to follow evacuation orders while avoiding panic. One was a quintet led by Wallace Hartley that played after dinner and at religious services while the other was a trio who played in the reception area and outside the caf and restaurant. "[228], The disaster led to major changes in maritime regulations to implement new safety measures, such as ensuring that more lifeboats were provided, that lifeboat drills were properly carried out and that radio equipment on passenger ships was manned around the clock. This was only about half of her full passenger capacity of 2,435,[11] as it was the low season and shipping from the UK had been disrupted by a coal miners' strike. [22] Smith ordered a new course to be set, to take the ship farther south. He rang the lookout bell three times and telephoned the bridge to inform Sixth Officer James Moody. [14], The ship was commanded by 62-year-old Captain Edward Smith, the most senior of the White Star Line's captains. A ALFIE 163 followers More information SS Imperator, World's Largest Liner, 1913 Titanic History Rms Titanic Kaiser Wilhelm Merchant Navy Cruise Liner Tug Boats Tall This is what happened to Titanic, which had suffered damage to the forepeak tank, the three forward holds, No. The sinking of the RMS Titanic was one of the most devastating disasters in modern history. No one could believe that the great ship was sunk by a little sliver. [24][e] Titanic's high speed in waters where ice had been reported was later criticised as reckless, but it reflected standard maritime practice at the time. These injured and possibly killed some of the swimmers; others used the debris to try to keep themselves afloat. To add to the difficulty, many of the steerage passengers did not understand or speak English. Only one lifeboat drill had been conducted while the ship was docked at Southampton. [6] An accident was narrowly averted only a few minutes later, as Titanic passed the moored liners SSCity of New York of the American Line and Oceanic of the White Star Line, the latter of which would have been her running mate on the service from Southampton. The sinking of the Titanic after hitting an iceberg is unequivocally a true story. 4, having remained near the sinking ship, seems to have been closest to the site of the sinking at around 50 metres (160ft) away; this had enabled two people to drop into the boat and another to be picked up from the water before the ship sank. The theory states that it was not the Titanic that sank but a sister ship, made by the same company, called the Olympic. > Tim Maltin", "Testimony of Mrs J Stuart White at the US Inquiry", "Day 6 Testimony of Frederick Scott (Greaser, SS Titanic)", "Testimony of Henry James Moore at the US Inquiry", "Day 9 Testimony of Edward Brown (First Class Steward, SS Titanic)", "Testimony of Harold Bride at the US Inquiry", Findings: Titanic victims in 'cold shock', "SCREAMS, THEN SEA'S SILENCE, STILL HAUNT 5 SURVIVORS OF TITANIC", "Titanic becomes second ever film to take $2 billion", "Lost child of the Titanic and the fraud that haunted her family", "Did the Titanic Sink Because of an Optical Illusion? [60], Titanic's lower decks were divided into sixteen compartments. [44] He also stated that "I believe it must have been in places, not a continuous rip", but that the different openings must have extended along an area of around 300 feet, to account for the flooding in several compartments. What should I do now, with no lifebelt and no shoes and no cap? Now, without warning she seemed to start forward, moving forward and into the water at an angle of about fifteen degrees. Who wouldve known? [115] She was a much slower vessel than Titanic and, even driven at her maximum speed of 17kn (20mph; 31km/h), would take four hours to reach the sinking ship. There were 1,036 survivors. Titanic's disintegration during her descent to the seabed caused buoyant chunks of debris timber beams, wooden doors, furniture, panelling and chunks of cork from the bulkheads to rocket to the surface. [2] Titanic could carry 3,547 people in speed and comfort,[3] and was built on an unprecedented scale. Some of the gates were locked and guarded by crew members, apparently to prevent the steerage passengers from rushing the lifeboats. It meant all hope was gone for those still down there. [179] The streamlined bow section continued to descend at about the angle it had taken on the surface, striking the seabed prow-first at a shallow angle[180] at an estimated speed of 2530mph (4048km/h). Most of the crew were not seamen, and even some of those had no prior experience of rowing a boat. Modern ultrasound surveys of the wreck have found that the actual damage to the hull was very similar to Wilding's statement, consisting of six narrow openings covering a total area of only about 12 to 13 square feet (1.1 to 1.2m2). [213] Memorials were raised in various places New York, Washington, Southampton, Liverpool, Belfast and Lichfield, among others[214] and ceremonies were held on both sides of the Atlantic to commemorate the dead and raise funds to aid the survivors. It was aboard this boat that White Star chairman and managing director J. Bruce Ismay, Titanic's most controversial survivor, made his escape from the ship, an act later condemned as cowardice. The ropes were cut in time and both boats made it away safely. [204] It appeared to Carpathia's passengers that their ship was in the middle of a vast white plain of ice, studded with icebergs appearing like hills in the distance. Honestly, in the grand scheme of things, I dont think it would have made that much of a difference. Many ships sank: The Empress of Ireland sank i First Officer Willaim Murdoch ordered the ship to be steered around the iceberg and the engines to be stopped, but there wasnt enough time. They just tack two more on for funsies? [114], By 01:20, the seriousness of the situation was now apparent to the passengers above decks, who began saying their goodbyes, with husbands escorting their wives and children to the lifeboats. Titanic Wreck. [82] Had this been done, an additional 500people could have been saved; instead, hundreds of people, predominantly men, were left on board as lifeboats were launched with many seats vacant. "[123] Charlotte Collyer's husband Harvey called to his wife as she was put in a lifeboat, "Go, Lottie! He wrote: Hundreds were in a circle [in the third-class dining saloon] with a preacher in the middle, praying, crying, asking God and Mary to help them. The air temperature had fallen to near freezing, and the ocean was completely calm. On 14 April 1912, Titanic's radio operators[c] received six messages from other ships warning of drifting ice, which passengers on Titanic had begun to notice during the afternoon. [221], In the aftermath of the sinking, public inquiries were set up in Britain and the United States. That I should be caught in this death trap? Why make this video?Titanic holds a strange place in popular culture; she was a mostly evolutionary ocean liner but has been mythologised almost beyond belief. [61], Each bulkhead could be sealed by watertight doors. WebTitanic barely launched all of hers (two collapsibles were floated off the deck in the early stages of the final plunge because there wasnt enough time) and she had a particularly long and stable sinking. I don't know. WATCH: Never-Before-Seen Footage of Titanic Wreck From 1986 Dive. [223] They reached broadly similar conclusions: the regulations on the number of lifeboats that ships had to carry were out of date and inadequate;[224] Captain Smith had failed to take proper heed of ice warnings;[225] the lifeboats had not been properly filled or crewed; and the collision was the direct result of steaming into a danger area at too high a speed. No bc [sic] why does this make sense (also titanic kids unite). One viewer agreed. Among them were Archibald Gracie, Jack Thayer, and Charles Lightoller, who made it to the capsized collapsible boat B. [106] Neither did any of the Titanic's five postal clerks, who were last seen struggling to save the mail bags they had rescued from the flooded mail room. The footage was taken 37 years ago, but only just released to the public. [212], Even before Carpathia arrived in New York, efforts were getting underway to retrieve the dead. [199] The situation was particularly bad aboard collapsible B, which was only kept afloat by a diminishing air pocket in the upturned hull. Others made their way through open gates or climbed emergency ladders.[127]. [218] Crowds of weeping women the wives, sisters and mothers of crew gathered outside the White Star offices in Southampton for news of their loved ones. The RMSTitanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, five days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Farther out, the other eighteen lifeboats most of which had empty seats drifted as the occupants debated what, if anything, they should do to rescue the swimmers. Several witnesses support this account, including A. H. Barkworth, a first-class passenger, who testified: "I do not wish to detract from the bravery of anybody, but I might mention that when I first came on deck the band was playing a waltz. [89][90] However, according to survivors, Smith took charge and behaved coolly and calmly during the crisis. [58] Second engineer J. H. Hesketh and leading stoker Frederick Barrett were both struck by a jet of icy water in No. And then we have the Olympic and the Titanic. It was struck by a torpedo by a German U-boat and it sank., As you can see, she resembles the Titanic. [159] The parties who were trying to launch collapsible boats A and B, including Sixth Officer Moody[160] and Colonel Archibald Gracie, were swept away along with the two boats (boat B floated away upside-down with Harold Bride trapped underneath it, and boat A ended up partly flooded and with its canvas not raised). [48][49] These "Best" or No. When working to free Collapsible B, Harold Bride said he saw Captain Smith dive from the bridge into the sea just before the bridge was submerged. [124] The industrialist Benjamin Guggenheim changed out of his life vest and sweater into top hat and evening dress and declared his wish to go down like a gentleman.[46]. [237], The wreck is steadily decaying, with an estimated 0.51 ton of metal turning to oxide per day (assuming one ten-thousandth of an inch per day on all surfaces). (The Seaman's Act, passed as a result of the Titanic's The forward part of the stern will have flooded very rapidly, causing it to tilt and then settle briefly until sinking. "[25], Although the crew was aware of ice in the vicinity, they did not reduce the ship's speed, and continued to steam at 22 knots (41km/h; 25mph), only 2 knots (3.7km/h; 2.3mph) short of her maximum speed. [75] Some set about playing an impromptu game of association football with the ice chunks that were now strewn across the foredeck. [43] At the British inquiry following the accident, Edward Wilding (chief naval architect for Harland and Wolff), calculating on the basis of the observed flooding of forward compartments forty minutes after the collision, testified that the area of the hull opened to the sea was "somewhere about 12 square feet (1.1m2)". But when I heard this theory, everything like made sense.. No.. [102] Two engineers, Herbert Harvey and Jonathan Shepherd (who had just broken his left leg after falling into a manhole minutes earlier), died in boiler room No. Above the tank top level, on the Orlop Deck, F Deck and E Deck, the doors closed horizontally and were manually operated. At this point, the vast majority of passengers who had boarded lifeboats were from first- and second-class. [140] Captain Smith carried out a final tour of the deck, telling the radio operators and other crew members: "Now it's every man for himself. [234] Numerous expeditions have been launched to film the wreck and, controversially, to salvage objects from the debris field. Second Officer Lightoller recalled afterwards that he had to cup both hands over Smith's ears to communicate over the racket of escaping steam, and said, "I yelled at the top of my voice, 'Hadn't we better get the women and children into the boats, sir?' If the Titanic doesn't sink, then the Eastland Disaster likely doesn't occur and 844 lives are spared in Chicago. [7] The two ships avoided a collision by a distance of about 4 feet (1.2m). The incident delayed Titanic's departure for about an hour, while the drifting New York was brought under control. Some, perhaps overwhelmed by it all, made no attempt to escape and stayed in their cabins or congregated in prayer in the third-class dining room. The Carpathia did. With five or more compartments breached, however, the tops of the bulkheads would be submerged and the ship would continue to flood. (s.s.)", Encyclopedia Titanica: facts and research about the ship and her sinking, Flooding by Compartment (Samuel W. Halpern), Mount Olivet Cemetery (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel RMS, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sinking_of_the_Titanic&oldid=1141357869, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from August 2022, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 17:28. 14 as it was being lowered with 40people aboard. [52] When Olympic rammed and sank the U-boat U-103 with her bow, the stem was twisted and hull plates on the starboard side were buckled without impairing the hull's integrity. The ship is thoroughly equipped and everyone on her will be saved. . [243] Of the groups shown in the table, 49 percent of the children, 26 percent of the female passengers, 82 percent of the male passengers and 78 percent of the crew died. If Titanic had never sunk, she would have gone on as a prestigious liner on the North Atlantic passenger run. During World War I, she would have be [181], In the immediate aftermath of the sinking, hundreds of passengers and crew were left dying in the icy sea, surrounded by debris from the ship. "[189] Gracie said he heard men onboard Collapsible B say that Captain Smith was near the boat, and stoker Harry Senior and Entree cook Isaac Maynard said that Smith was present. Web5: The Titanic did not sink, but was instead towed to a secret location: This theory suggests that the Titanic did not sink but was instead towed to a secret location and repurposed as a secret military base or floating prison. [23], According to Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall, Murdoch told Captain Smith that he was attempting to "hard-a-port around [the iceberg]", suggesting that he was attempting a "port around" manoeuvre to first swing the bow around the obstacle, then swing the stern so that both ends of the ship would avoid a collision. Good luck and God bless you", was Smith. In this episode I present a likely alternative history drawing from real-life events and the career of other ships similar to Olympic and Titanic.Support me on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/oceanlinerdesignsOceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of historys greatest ocean liners from Titanic to Queen Mary but not forgetting the likes of Empress of Ireland or Chusan. 1995-1997: James Cameron uses the Olympic for the production of his blockbuster film, "Titanic". It drifted astern, directly under No. It was planned.. Ex: JP Morgan had more than one rival on the Titanic. The passengers were not told that the ship was sinking, though a few noticed that she was listing. [123], Other couples refused to be separated. Titanic History. https://oceanlinerdesigns.com/titanic-alternateIn April 1912 the RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage - but what if it didn't? Her initial list to starboard was caused by asymmetrical flooding of the starboard side as water poured down a passageway at the bottom of the ship. "[25] This message, too, never left the Titanic's radio room. [147][148] He was reportedly seen throwing deck chairs into the ocean for passengers to cling to in the water. [231], Titanic's sinking has become a cultural phenomenon, commemorated by artists, film-makers, writers, composers, musicians and dancers from the time immediately after the sinking to the present day. By now, many passengers were awaking, having noticed the engines and their accompanying vibrations had suddenly stopped. In 1907, SSKronprinz Wilhelm, a German liner, had rammed an iceberg and suffered a crushed bow, but was still able to complete her voyage. [230] Radio operators were to give priority to emergency and hazard messages over private messages and to use the Q code to minimize language problems. 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