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7/31/2019 Titanic Research Project
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Millionaires Special
By: Robert Owens
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• On March 31st, 1909, a group of elite
shipbuilders from all across Europe all
congregated on Harland and Wolff shipyard tobegin working on just another old ship build....
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• But, what these shipbuilders would piece
together in the next couple of years would be
more than just another old ship build….
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• It would change their lives forever….
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• 888.5’ long
• 175’ tall
• 51,000 hp
• Weighing in at over 46,000 tons
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CREATING A PALACE
The Construction of the R.M.S Titanic
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• Construction on the R.M.S. Titanic began on
March 31st, 1909 at Harland and Wolff
Shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
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Build Facts
• Up to 3,000 workers at a time worked on the
ship during its construction.
• The Titanic cost $7.5 million to build.
(equivalent to $400 million today)
• More than 3 million rivets were used to
construct the ship.
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Tragedy
• A total of 17 men, including a father and son
died during construction.
•R.I.P
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Triumph
• Construction of the Titanic ended and after
much inspecting and many test runs, on May
31st, 1911 the Titanic was launched.
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• And the “Unsinkable” Titanic set sail.
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THE MIGHTY SHIP
A closer look at the Titanic itself
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How Big?
• The proportions of the Titanic were truly
astonishing. At 888.75’ long, 175’ tall, and
weighing in at over 46,000 tons the Titanic
was the largest man-made structure in theworld at the time.
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How Big?
• The Titanic consisted of 300 steel sections,
had a 92’ beam, four 62’ tall funnels on top of
the ship, a 1’’ thick outer skin, an overall
capacity of 3,547 passengers, all put togetherwith over 3 million rivets.
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The Power plant
• The ship consisted of two four-cylinder steam
reciprocating engines and one low pressure
turbine engine. The turbine, which drove the
center propeller, reused the exhaust steamfrom the other engines. The engines all had a
combined amount of 51,000 hp. These
engines also had quite an appetite, burning660 tons of coal daily.
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• So, it seems as if these shipbuilders can
produce anything of that magnitude, you
would think they are advanced enough tomake the Titanic truly “unsinkable” or as
“unsinkable” as possible, but they didn’t.
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SINKABLE
The many flaws that sank the Titanic
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• When building a ship there are many things
shipbuilders put into consideration, including
“what can I do to make this ship as“unsinkable” as possible.” In the next couple
of slides you will find out the many “sinkable”
factors the builders didn’t quite double check.
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• Out of the almost 3 million rivets used most of
them broke because the iron used was very
weak.
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• As many of those rivets broke, the ship began
to sink and most of the lifeboats were already
fleeing the crash scene for safety. As thelifeboat supply dwindled to nothing due to the
limited supply, many passengers were still left
aboard to die. The only alternative to lifeboats
were lifejackets, but there was one
problem…..
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• The lifejackets were so hard that as the
passengers began putting them on and
jumping from the boat many people werebreaking bones, making them unable to swim,
therefore left to drown.
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• None of those flaws would have had to be
encountered in the first place if it were not for
this next flaw. On the night of the tragedymany warnings of that iceberg, and others,
were sent to the Titanic. The crew members
reading all messages in and out of the ship
were notified, but failed to alert the captain.
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• So you can tell that what these shipbuilders
built really wasn’t “just another old ship
build”, but it really did change their livesforever.
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• In good ways and bad.
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• As the survivors were put on trial,
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• the shipbuilders cried,
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• and 700 men, women, and children were sent
to rot underground.
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• Many mourned the tragedy of the Titanic,
even still to this day, of the “Millionaires
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