The Titanic

The Titanic
1.1 The blue ribbon

• At the beginning of the 20th century, fierce competition broke out between transatlantic shipping companies for the lucrative business of
passenger transport. The two biggest players were the Liverpool shipping companies White Star Line and Cunard.
• With the liner ships Mauretania and Lusitania, Cunard was already able to showcase speed and set speed records for the Southampton -
New York routes.
• White Star decided not to exceed this with even higher speeds, but instead to rely on ships of the line with the highest levels of comfort.
• If there was ever a ship wrongly associated with the Blue Ribbon, it was the Titanic. But it was the Titanic of all people that made the "Blue
Ribbon of the Atlantic" - albeit via novels and films - a term that was widely used by the general public. Because nobody thought about the
record trip of the Titanic and about the Blue Ribbon.
• 1.2 Industrialization
• The North Atlantic, which has been the most important transport route between Europe and America for centuries, became the venue for
fierce competition between the world's most important shipping companies as a result of the industrial revolution and the associated
expansion of trade. There was a real race across the Atlantic Ocean for days, hours and minutes.
• Initially, this "race" took place on the so-called Irish route. Their starting point was Liverpool or Queenstown on the European side, the end
point was the Ambrose lightship on the American side off New York.
• In the 1980s the canal route gained economic importance.
• 1.3 Beginning of the cruise era
• White Star decided not to exceed this with even higher speeds, but instead to rely on ships of the line with the highest level of comfort,
which should exceed everything that has been seen before in size. This allowed them to accommodate more paying passengers per crossing
and charge high prices for the large suites that housed families and servants.
2. The data
• 2.1 The keel laying
• 1. Construction of the Titanic began on March 31, 1909 with the laying of the keel.
• 2. All the steel that was used for the hull had to be imported.
• 3. The Titanic's hull was completed in April 1910.
• 4. The Titanic was launched on May 31, 1911.
• 5. The sea trials of the Titanic took place on April 2, 1912
• 2.2 Technical details
• Built by: Harland and Wolff of Belfast
• In Ireland
• Length: 822.5 feet
• Weight: 46,329 tons
3. The three classes
• 3.1 Known passengers

• A total of 2214 people were on board, including 1322 passengers
including American millionaires
• - John Jakob Astor
• - Benjamin Guggenheim
• - Isodor Straus
• 3.2 The crew
• A total of 892 men were on board, most of them died.
4. Launching and maiden voyage
• 4.1 Advertising
• On April 10, the giant, touted as "unsinkable" as a wonder ship, left the English port of Southampton on his first
voyage to New York.
• 4.2 The iceberg warnings during the route
• April 14, 1912 - a Sunday - was initially quite normal. For four days the ocean liner has been sailing like a floating
palace hotel. The mood on board was excellent; Especially among the passengers of the luxury class, a very
distinguished company had come together to take part in this great event, the first voyage of a real ocean liner.
• It was also not unusual that the ship's command had repeatedly received ice warnings from other ships by radio
since the morning. After all, you were very close to the ice danger area.
• Despite increasing ice warnings, the captain allowed the ship to continue running at full speed.
• The fact that the Titanic ran at full speed 20 minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, onto an iceberg that
had only been spotted at the very last minute due to intense darkness and light fog, was one of those tragic
accidents that have occurred anywhere in the world occurrence.
5. The collision and the sinking
• 5.1 Timeline
• 11.40 PM:
• The Titanic's lookout reports: "Iceberg ahead. Distance 500m." The first officer gives the commands any seaman would have given in this situation: "Rudder hard to
port, engines back at full power." Too late. The hull is torn open about 90m long. Immediately water penetrates the forward part of the ship.
• 00.15:
• First emergency call. The radio operator sends SOS (Save Our Souls), the then new international distress signal. The Titanic has 20 lifeboats with space for 1178
people; 2206 are on board.
• 12:45 AM:
• The first lifeboat is launched. It is sparsely occupied. Many passengers do not yet believe that the situation is serious.
• 02:05 AM:
• The last lifeboat is launched. The captain also stays on board.
• 02.20 a.m .:
• The Titanic has sunk
• 4.10 a.m .:
• The "Carpatha", an English ship, takes 703 survivors. There was no salvation for 1,503 people. The sinking of the Titanic has been covered in several books and films.
• 5.2 Reasons for Doom
• The following examinations revealed:
• - The ship had passed through dangerous waters too fast
• - In the lifeboats there was space for about half of the passengers and crew and
• - The Californian could not come to the scene of the accident because the radio operator was off duty and had gone to sleep.
• - There were not enough binoculars available, with which the fateful iceberg might have been discovered sooner.
6. The rescue
• 6.1 What people thought about Burma and Californian

• 1509 people died in that dramatic night, only 705, less than a third, got away with their lives
and were later rescued by ships that had come up.
• A particular fatality was that another English steamer, the "Californian", was within sight of the
ocean liner, but did not notice the catastrophe. Nobody on her heard the CQD Cry for help
because the radio operator was asleep. The launched white missiles of the "Titanic" could be
seen, but they were taken for amusement of the passengers. If blue or red fires had been
burned instead, as all ships in distress do, the officer on watch of the cargo steamer would
certainly have noticed. As it was, however, he watched the ocean liner's chain of lights
shimmering over from afar for a long time and was only surprised that it suddenly disappeared.
• It was not until the next morning, when the radio operator was back at his device, that the
crew of the "Californian" learned from the still raging turmoil in the ether what drama had
taken place in their immediate vicinity and that they could have saved many hundreds of
people. if she had been made aware of it in good time.
7. Newspaper reports
• The White Star Line suffered a huge loss of passengers because it was
rumored that the Titanic had been driven to perdition out of a record-
breaking addiction to the Blue Ribbon.
8. Years later
• Even if there were quite a few fearful people who for the time being
did not dare to embark on a journey across the ocean, the accident
hardly had a negative effect on passenger and freight traffic, because
people wanted to travel over or over, and world trade had to go on.
9. The legendary film
• 9.1 All films at a glance

• 1912: Saved From the Titanic, starred Dorothy Gibson, a survivor of the sinking
• 1912: In night and ice
• 1929: Atlantic, first sound film in English, German or French that goes back to the sinking of the Titanic
• 1943: Titanic, propaganda film
• 1953: sinking of the Titanic
• 1958: The Titanic's last night
• 1979: S.O.S. Titanic, TV movie
• 1980: Lifts the Titanic
• 1996: Titanic, two-part television series
• 1997: Titanic
• 1999: Mouse hunt on the Titanic
• 9.2 The most famous film
• 1997: Titanic 1997 American drama film directed by James Cameron, retelling the story of the RMS Titanic's maiden voyage in
1912. A love story with fictional characters was woven into the facts of the ship's sinking. The film won eleven Academy Awards,
including the one for Best Film, and had 130.9 million admissions in the USA alone and 18 million in Germany. With a worldwide
box office of over $ 1.8 billion.

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The Titanic

1.1 The blue ribbon

• 2.1 The keel laying

• 3.1 Known passengers

• 6.1 What people thought about Burma and Californian

• 9.1 All films at a glance

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