Titanic: Destination Disaster By: Katia Pfister The Titanic Leaving Queenstown

Titanic: Destination

Disaster

By:Katia

Pfister

The Titanic Leaving Queenstown

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The Make of the Titanic:It was to be the most luxurious, fastest, and

the largest ship afloatInclude many features such as a Turkish

bath, swimming pool, squash court, grand stairway and much more

Its hull was divided into 16 watertight compartments designed to stay afloat

This is why the Titanic was thought to be unsinkable

The Make of the Titanic Cont.She was nearly 900 feet long

Stood 25 stories high

Weighed over 46,000 tons

Had turn of the century design and technology

The Titanic first set sail on April 10, 1912

April 14, the Titanic collided with a massive iceberg and sank in less than 3 hours. Damaging nearly 300 feet of the ship’s hull which allowed the water to flood 6 of her 16 major watertight compartmentsMore than 2,200 passengers and crews were aboard705 survived

Passengers boarding the Titanic

LifeboatsLifeboat 7 with 28 people on board out of a

capacity of 65Lifeboat 6 and lifeboat 5 minutes later were

launchedLifeboat 1 with 12 peopleLifeboat 11 overloaded with 70 peopleTitanic carried total of 20 lifeboats with a

capacity of 1,178At the time, the number of lifeboats required

was determined by a ship’s gross register tonnage, rather than her human capacity

TotalsDeaths

and Survival

s

Women Children Men Total

TotalAdult FemalePassengers

Died: 112Survived: 304

Percentage Survived: 72%

TotalChildren

Passengers Died: 56

Survived: 56Percentage Survived:

50%

TotalAdult Male Passengers



TotalPassengers



TotalFemale Staff

Died: 2Survived: 20


TotalChildren on Crew

None.(Although some

were in their teens.)

TotalMale Staff and

Crew Died: 701


21%

TotalCrew and Staff



TotalWomen Died: 114


72%

TotalChildren Died: 56


50%

TotalMen



TotalOn Board Died: 1509


31%

Total Deaths and Survivals

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Breakdown of Passengers by Class

Women Children Men Total First Class

Women(Servants totaled separately)

Died: 4 (0)Survived: 113 (24)

Percentage Survived: 97% (100%)

First ClassChildren

Died: 1Survived: 6


First ClassMen

(Servants totaled separately)

Died: 104 (10)Survived: 55 (2)


First ClassTotal



Second ClassWomen

(Servant totaled separately) Died: 13 (0)

Survived: 78 (1)Percentage Survived: 86%

Second ClassChildren

Died: 0Survived: 25


Second ClassMen

(Servants totaled separately)

Died: 135 (4)Survived: 13


Second ClassTotal



Third Class (Steerage)Women Died: 91

Survived: 88Percentage Survived: 49%

Third Class (Steerage)Children Died: 55

Survived: 25Percentage Survived: 31%

Third Class (Steerage)Men



Third Class (Steerage)Total



Passengers by Class

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CategoryNumber aboard

Number of survivors

Percentage survived

Number lostPercentage lost

First class 329 199 60.5 % 130 39.5 %

Second class

285 119 41.7 % 166 58.3 %

Third class 710 174 24.5 % 536 75.5 %

Crew 899 214 23.8 % 685 76.2 %

Total 2,223 706 31.8 % 1,517 68.2 %

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1st and 2nd Class Treatment:

3rd Class Treatment:

Better able to acquire safety information and privileges from the crew during intervening hours

Had accommodations closer to the deck and were able to get there more quickly

All children from the 1st and 2nd class survived

Were not allowed in on the boat deck until only a few boats remained

They were housed in a lower area of the ship called steerage

Only 34% of the children in 3rd class survived

Titanic Facts: Lifeboats

Titanic was supplied with only enough life boats to accommodate about half of its max. number of passengers

Some of the lifeboats lowered into the water were only half full

A few of the lifeboats drifted off to see before they were properly deployed

Why the lifeboats were somewhat filled?

Captain Smith, not trusting the davits to handle the weight of a fully laden boat, wanted them lowered only partially filled, but them to return to the ship to embark more passengers through a large access port on a lower deck

However, these instructions were either misunderstood or disregarded, because the boats did not stand by the ship

Many passengers were unaware that the ship was sinking until the last moment which is why many felt safer on the titanic than in a lifeboat

The Sinking:Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic

ocean near the coast of Newfoundland shortly before midnight April 14, 1912

Impact with the iceberg caused the hull to buckle and the vessel began taking on water

Neighboring ships in the area had reported ice floes, but the Titanic continued to travel at top speep

The band really did keep playing as the ship was sinking

Other Information

People aged 16 and 35 were the most likely to live- suggesting physical fitness was critical

Women aged 16 to 35 were more likely to live than other age groups, as were children and the people with the children

The passengers held to the rule of “women and children first”- meaning they were to be on lifeboats before the men

The Titanic Casualty FiguresIf you were a man, you were out of luckThe overall survival rate for men was 20%For women, it was 74%, and for children it

was 52%3rd class women were 41% more likely to

survive than 1st class men3rd class men were twice as likely to survive

as second class men

MisconceptionsThe Titanic may not have sunk if the captain

and the White Star Line chairman had decided to stay put after the ship hit the iceberg and wait for rescue

According to crew members, the chairman was anxious to get the ship to New York and prove the Titanic was unsinkable

The forward motion of the boat caused further extra damage which increased flooding, and the pumps could not handle that much water

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The difference between who lived and died was not in the time the ship sank, but rather the notice of their impending doom that the passengers had. On Titanic, many people thought the sinking was a joke and that the Titanic could not sink. After all, the ship was deemed unsinkable and only hit a little ice. They expected the life boats to come back after a short time which is why many of the ones first launched were partially full.

The Titanic stayed afloat for 2 hr. 40 min, and human behavior differed accordingly. On the slowly sinking Titanic, there was time for socially determined behavioral patterns to reemerge."

On the Titanic, the rules concerning gender, class and the gentle treatment of children — in other words, good manners — had a chance to assert themselves.

Titanic as a Social Disaster

What mattered when trying to survived the Titanic: gender, age, ticket class, nationality and familial relationships with other passengers

The Titanic, where social norms seem to have prevailed and women and children had a better chance of surviving.

More than 1,5000 people had died when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank over the course of 3 hours in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic.

Children aboard the Titanic were about 15% more likely to survive than adults and women had more than 50% better chance than men to make it out alive.

Therefore: read the last slide

Therefore with the Titanic sinking so slowly… social norms reemerged: not only did women and children fare better, but upper class people were more likely to survive.

Leadership played a large role during this disaster. The Titanic crew were more successful in maintaining order. They did this by following the “rule of thumb” women and children get out first.

People might be in a state of panic but if they are reassured there is a system in place, they might be more likely to go along with the plan.

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Titanic: Destination Disaster By: Katia Pfister The Titanic Leaving Queenstown