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Titanic: Destination Disaster. By: Katia Pfister. The Titanic Leaving Queenstown. http://www.titanic-facts.com/titanic-ship.html. The Make of the Titanic:. It was to be the most luxurious, fastest, and the largest ship afloat - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Titanic: Destination
Disaster
By:Katia
Pfister
The Titanic Leaving Queenstown
http://www.titanic-facts.com/titanic-ship.html
The Make of the Titanic:It was to be the most luxurious, fastest, and
the largest ship afloatInclude many features such as a Turkish
bath, swimming pool, squash court, grand stairway and much more
Its hull was divided into 16 watertight compartments designed to stay afloat
This is why the Titanic was thought to be unsinkable
The Make of the Titanic Cont.She was nearly 900 feet long
Stood 25 stories high
Weighed over 46,000 tons
Had turn of the century design and technology
The Titanic first set sail on April 10, 1912
April 14, the Titanic collided with a massive iceberg and sank in less than 3 hours. Damaging nearly 300 feet of the ship’s hull which allowed the water to flood 6 of her 16 major watertight compartmentsMore than 2,200 passengers and crews were aboard705 survived
Passengers boarding the Titanic
LifeboatsLifeboat 7 with 28 people on board out of a
capacity of 65Lifeboat 6 and lifeboat 5 minutes later were
launchedLifeboat 1 with 12 peopleLifeboat 11 overloaded with 70 peopleTitanic carried total of 20 lifeboats with a
capacity of 1,178At the time, the number of lifeboats required
was determined by a ship’s gross register tonnage, rather than her human capacity
TotalsDeaths
and Survival
s
Women Children Men Total
TotalAdult FemalePassengers
Died: 112Survived: 304
Percentage Survived: 72%
TotalChildren
Passengers Died: 56
Survived: 56Percentage Survived:
50%
TotalAdult Male Passengers
Died: 638Survived: 130
Percentage Survived: 18%
TotalPassengers
Died: 806Survived: 490
Percentage Survived: 37%
TotalFemale Staff
Died: 2Survived: 20
Percentage Survived: 91%
TotalChildren on Crew
None.(Although some
were in their teens.)
TotalMale Staff and
Crew Died: 701
Survived: 195Percentage Survived:
21%
TotalCrew and Staff
Died: 703Survived: 215
Percentage Survived: 23%
TotalWomen Died: 114
Survived: 324Percentage Survived:
72%
TotalChildren Died: 56
Survived: 56Percentage Survived:
50%
TotalMen
Died: 1339Survived: 325
Percentage Survived: 19%
TotalOn Board Died: 1509
Survived: 705Percentage Survived:
31%
Total Deaths and Survivals
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Breakdown of Passengers by Class
Women Children Men Total First Class
Women(Servants totaled separately)
Died: 4 (0)Survived: 113 (24)
Percentage Survived: 97% (100%)
First ClassChildren
Died: 1Survived: 6
Percentage Survived: 86%
First ClassMen
(Servants totaled separately)
Died: 104 (10)Survived: 55 (2)
Percentage Survived: 34% (17%)
First ClassTotal
Died: 119Survived: 200
Percentage Survived: 63%
Second ClassWomen
(Servant totaled separately) Died: 13 (0)
Survived: 78 (1)Percentage Survived: 86%
Second ClassChildren
Died: 0Survived: 25
Percentage Survived: 100%
Second ClassMen
(Servants totaled separately)
Died: 135 (4)Survived: 13
Percentage Survived: 8% (0%)
Second ClassTotal
Died: 152Survived: 117
Percentage Survived: 43%
Third Class (Steerage)Women Died: 91
Survived: 88Percentage Survived: 49%
Third Class (Steerage)Children Died: 55
Survived: 25Percentage Survived: 31%
Third Class (Steerage)Men
Died: 381Survived: 59
Percentage Survived: 13%
Third Class (Steerage)Total
Died: 527Survived: 172
Percentage Survived: 25%
Passengers by Class
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CategoryNumber aboard
Number of survivors
Percentage survived
Number lostPercentage lost
First class 329 199 60.5 % 130 39.5 %
Second class
285 119 41.7 % 166 58.3 %
Third class 710 174 24.5 % 536 75.5 %
Crew 899 214 23.8 % 685 76.2 %
Total 2,223 706 31.8 % 1,517 68.2 %
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1st and 2nd Class Treatment:
3rd Class Treatment:
Better able to acquire safety information and privileges from the crew during intervening hours
Had accommodations closer to the deck and were able to get there more quickly
All children from the 1st and 2nd class survived
Were not allowed in on the boat deck until only a few boats remained
They were housed in a lower area of the ship called steerage
Only 34% of the children in 3rd class survived
Titanic Facts: Lifeboats
Titanic was supplied with only enough life boats to accommodate about half of its max. number of passengers
Some of the lifeboats lowered into the water were only half full
A few of the lifeboats drifted off to see before they were properly deployed
Why the lifeboats were somewhat filled?
Captain Smith, not trusting the davits to handle the weight of a fully laden boat, wanted them lowered only partially filled, but them to return to the ship to embark more passengers through a large access port on a lower deck
However, these instructions were either misunderstood or disregarded, because the boats did not stand by the ship
Many passengers were unaware that the ship was sinking until the last moment which is why many felt safer on the titanic than in a lifeboat
The Sinking:Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic
ocean near the coast of Newfoundland shortly before midnight April 14, 1912
Impact with the iceberg caused the hull to buckle and the vessel began taking on water
Neighboring ships in the area had reported ice floes, but the Titanic continued to travel at top speep
The band really did keep playing as the ship was sinking
Other Information
People aged 16 and 35 were the most likely to live- suggesting physical fitness was critical
Women aged 16 to 35 were more likely to live than other age groups, as were children and the people with the children
The passengers held to the rule of “women and children first”- meaning they were to be on lifeboats before the men
The Titanic Casualty FiguresIf you were a man, you were out of luckThe overall survival rate for men was 20%For women, it was 74%, and for children it
was 52%3rd class women were 41% more likely to
survive than 1st class men3rd class men were twice as likely to survive
as second class men
MisconceptionsThe Titanic may not have sunk if the captain
and the White Star Line chairman had decided to stay put after the ship hit the iceberg and wait for rescue
According to crew members, the chairman was anxious to get the ship to New York and prove the Titanic was unsinkable
The forward motion of the boat caused further extra damage which increased flooding, and the pumps could not handle that much water
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The difference between who lived and died was not in the time the ship sank, but rather the notice of their impending doom that the passengers had. On Titanic, many people thought the sinking was a joke and that the Titanic could not sink. After all, the ship was deemed unsinkable and only hit a little ice. They expected the life boats to come back after a short time which is why many of the ones first launched were partially full.
The Titanic stayed afloat for 2 hr. 40 min, and human behavior differed accordingly. On the slowly sinking Titanic, there was time for socially determined behavioral patterns to reemerge."
On the Titanic, the rules concerning gender, class and the gentle treatment of children — in other words, good manners — had a chance to assert themselves.
Titanic as a Social Disaster
What mattered when trying to survived the Titanic: gender, age, ticket class, nationality and familial relationships with other passengers
The Titanic, where social norms seem to have prevailed and women and children had a better chance of surviving.
More than 1,5000 people had died when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank over the course of 3 hours in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic.
Children aboard the Titanic were about 15% more likely to survive than adults and women had more than 50% better chance than men to make it out alive.
Therefore: read the last slide
Therefore with the Titanic sinking so slowly… social norms reemerged: not only did women and children fare better, but upper class people were more likely to survive.
Leadership played a large role during this disaster. The Titanic crew were more successful in maintaining order. They did this by following the “rule of thumb” women and children get out first.
People might be in a state of panic but if they are reassured there is a system in place, they might be more likely to go along with the plan.