Monday, April 23, 2012

THE TITANIC


                                                        

                              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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The wreck of Titanic is 3 kilometers under the Atlantic Ocean in two pieces; the front part is at north and the other at south. The Titanic researchers believe that many of the passengers didn’t drown they were freeze to death as the Atlantic Ocean was very cold. The Titanic incident was the biggest destruction which people can’t forget it. We will hope that this kind of incident never happen again.