2. Lifeboat shortage
Maybe this is the main reason for the high death toll, and nobody talks about it. On a ship as big as the Titanic, you should have more than 20 lifeboats! Yes, people perished in this disaster because they didn’t even have the chance to save themselves.
In the original design, the ship was supposed to have 64 lifeboats. This was the ideal number. This number was cut in half. Still a decent number. And later, the owners of the ship cut it in half again because they decided that the “large” number of boats would clutter the deck and block the views of the First Class travelers.
Not a wise choice at all. The 20 boats they had could only transport 1,718 passengers, while the ship had almost twice as many. In reality, only 700 people managed to survive the disaster.
16 comments on “4 Reasons Why The Titanic Sank (It Was NOT The Iceberg)”
fateful day, NOT Faithful day
Could it have been that on board were some of the richest men in the US who also happened to oppose the creation of the Federal Reserve?
Would-a, Could-a, Should-a! All speculation…
None of these answers caused it to sink.
Contributed to th unfortunate event.
I met a survivor of the Titanic when I was a young child. His brother was my Grandfathers worker on his farm. We called him Titanic John. I remember standing around the kitchen table as he told us what happened that night. He was a teenager so he did manage to get in a life boat. He did leave and go back to Calif. where he lived. A few years later his bother passed away and he came back for his funeral. At this time our News Paper came out to my Grandfathers and interviewed him about what he went though. My Mother cut it out of the paper. I have it now in a frame for protection and also hat 2 metal pictures of the Titanic. I am now 75 yrs old, so it habeen a long time ago.
“The iceberg was not the reason” – goes on to list 3 reasons that explained why it hit the iceberg that indeed sank it, and one reason that had no influence on it sinking. Good job guys.
All these still said the iceberg did it.
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All of these reasons as to why the Titanic sank are just what contributed to the final event of the tragedy. The actual sinking of the ship was still caused by the iceberg.
The description of #4 is vague, wrong and inaccurate. First, “cruiseliners” was an unknown concept in 1912, not until 1980 were ships built to be cruiseliners, a light-duty vessel used to leisurely cruise within a small area. Titanic instead was a TransAtlantic liner as 95% of ships were in the 20th century, built very seaworthy to handle the harsh north Atlantic between Europe and the US, on a regular schedule to get from point A to point B. Second, your description of “hard a starboard” is so vague that its inaccurate. Titanic’s senior officer was second officer Lightoller, a story he told only his family which he wanted kept secret. Yes, first officer Murdock yelled “hard a starboard”, but Titanic’s pilot at the helm frantically turned the wheel turning the ship toward the iceberg, seconds passed until the error was realized, then the wheel was turned, turning Titanic away from the iceberg, but by then it was too late to miss the iceberg. Capt Smith carried an ice warning around all day in his pocket ignoring the significance of it.
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