Unfortunately, the Titanic had been built with watertight structures to prevent sinking only up to flooding of four holds at the fore. The vessel eventually capsized due to waterlogging and sank in a matter of hours. Gill, Anton (2010). Titanic: the real story of the construction of the world's most famous ship. Channel 4 Books. ISBN 978-1-905026-71-5.

Why No Searchlights On Titanic?". 19 November 2012. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021 . Retrieved 9 February 2019. While it has always been assumed that the ship sank as a result of the gash that caused the bulkhead compartments to flood, various other theories have emerged over the decades, including that the ship’s steel plates were too brittle for the near-freezing Atlantic waters, that the impact caused rivets to pop and that the expansion joints failed, among others. Gibraltar Titanic stamps". Gibraltar-stamps.com. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013 . Retrieved 28 May 2013. The sheer size of the Olympic class vessels posed a major engineering challenge for Harland and Wolff; no shipbuilder had ever before attempted to construct vessels this size. [76] The ships were constructed on Queen's Island, now known as the Titanic Quarter, in Belfast Harbour. Harland and Wolff had to demolish three existing slipways and build two new ones, the largest ever constructed up to that time, to accommodate both ships. [10] Their construction was facilitated by an enormous gantry built by Sir William Arrol & Co., a Scottish firm responsible for the building of the Forth Bridge and London's Tower Bridge. The Arrol Gantry stood 228 feet (69m) high, was 270 feet (82m) wide and 840 feet (260m) long, and weighed more than 6,000 tons. It accommodated a number of mobile cranes. A separate floating crane, capable of lifting 200 tons, was brought in from Germany. [77]

Robertson's book is referenced in the 2009 video game Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors in regard to the game's setting. According to some hypotheses, Titanic was doomed from the start by a design that many lauded as state-of-the-art. The Olympic-class ships featured a double bottom and 15 watertight bulkhead compartments equipped with electric watertight doors that could be operated individually or simultaneously by a switch on the bridge. The first three days of the voyage from Queenstown had passed without apparent incident. A fire had begun in one of Titanic 's coal bunkers approximately 10 days prior to the ship's departure, and continued to burn for several days into its voyage, [142] but passengers were unaware of this situation. Fires occurred frequently on board steamships at the time, due to spontaneous combustion of the coal. [143] The fires had to be extinguished with fire hoses by moving the coal on top to another bunker and by removing the burning coal and feeding it into the furnace. [144] The fire was finally extinguished on 14 April. [145] [146] There has been some speculation and discussion as to whether this fire and attempts to extinguish it may have made the ship more vulnerable to sinking. [147] [148] Beveridge, Bruce; Andrews, Scott; Hall, Steve; Klistorner, Daniel (2008). Braunschweiger, Art (ed.). Titanic: the ship magnificent. Vol.one: Design & construction (3rded.). Stroud, UK: History Press. ISBN 978-0752446066.

Class Cafe Parisien". National Museums Northern Ireland. 2011. Archived from the original on 25 April 2011 . Retrieved 28 May 2011. Tragically, this was to be the norm: During the confusion and chaos during the precious hours before Titanic plunged into the sea, nearly every lifeboat would be launched woefully under-filled, some with only a handful of passengers. Times, Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph To the New York (1 June 1912). "NAVAL BAN ON SEARCHLIGHTS; Non-Use by Merchant Ships Due to British Admiralty, It Is Charged". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021 . Retrieved 9 February 2019.

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