Titanic who is to blame for the disaster

Though Maurice Clarke, the civil servant who inspected the Titanic in Southampton, recommended it carry 50 percent more lifeboats, his handwritten notes at the time later revealed that he felt his job would be threatened if he did not give the famous ship the go-ahead to sail. Due to the chaos that ensued after the Titanic struck an iceberg, the 20 lifeboats departed the ship with some empty seats, leaving more than 1, people to perish in the frigid ocean waters.

But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Titanic: Before and After. Recommended for you. How the Troubles Began in Northern Ireland. All he had to do was get to New York in record time.

Captain E. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. If he had called for the ship to slow down then maybe the Titanic disaster would not have happened. About three million rivets were used to hold the sections of the Titanic together. Some rivets have been recovered from the wreck and analysed. The findings show that they were made of sub-standard iron. When the ship hit the iceberg, the force of the impact caused the heads of the rivets to break and the sections of the Titanic to come apart.

If good quality iron rivets had been used the sections may have stayed together and the ship may not have sunk. Competition for Atlantic passengers was fierce and the White Star Line wanted to show that they could make a six-day crossing. To meet this schedule the Titanic could not afford to slow down.

It is believed that Ismay put pressure on Captain Smith to maintain the speed of the ship. The belief that the ship was unsinkable was, in part, due to the fact that the Titanic had sixteen watertight compartments. However, the compartments did not reach as high as they should have done. The Titanic is said to have been brought down by a huge iceberg that struck the hull of the ship, yet what if it was really the people commanding the boat that ended its life?

She left the harbor on her maiden voyage to New York on April 10, At various times throughout the story, mainly through the trials, Odysseus made many decisions and forced his crew to go through many potentially lethal situations without preparing his own crew, or situations that were just a waste of time. This then leads to not only all of his crew being killed but the creation of many bad relationships. The boat sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and killed 1, people and only people survived.

There was several actions people could of taken so Titanic wouldn 't sink. Captain Smith was going too fast and should of slowed down. They spend a lot of money on Titanic and they even said it was an unsinkable ship so then why did it sink? Larson not only blames the sinking of this ship upon the submarine that sunk the ship, but also he spies who withheld information about another safe route the ship could have used.

Another claim was that because the cruiser had to take on passengers from another ship, The Cameronia, the ship was then delayed for about two days, and could not continue on the original course time, so you could say they ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Another major problem on this ship was that the workers were not fully executing the drills they were instructed to do on a daily basis, and not instructing the passengers to learn the procedure either. The key was held by an officer who was kicked off the crew before they had left. The icebergs would have been spotted earlier on if the guards who were watching, would have had their binoculars, and the captain would have been able to turn the ship and miss the iceberg completely Boyle, New regulations have been made partly because of this tragic accident.

One of them being that; to have a good look out is to have, good eyes, telescope, and binoculars. It is also to have a look out man constantly at the masthead in the day, and several look out around the ship at night and in addition to the officers on watch. This left twelve American ships destroyed and another one to be very damaged.

In addition to that, Americans died in the bombing and over military workers and civilians were hurt badly from the attack. This was the major event that created the tension between Japan and the United States and caused the United States to declare war on Japan the following day. This damaged the sense of security the country felt because many of their own had died. The attack did. Everyone who jumped, mainly from the 9th and 10th floors, were killed.

This was the highest death toll for any fire I've ever heard a factory having, 25 workers died in the Newark factory fire.