Compensation after the Titanic and the disposal of the garbage captain.

Titanic! 19 12 apr 14 once the melody of the picture echoed in my ears.

The Royal Cruise Titanic is an Olympic-class cruise ship. At the beginning of the 20th century, the British White Star Shipping Company built a huge luxury passenger ship. It was built by Harlan and Wolf Shipyard in Belfast. It was the largest luxury passenger ship in the world at that time, and was called "unsinkable passenger ship" or "dream passenger ship". Together with sister ships RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic, it provides fast and comfortable transatlantic travel for passengers of White Star Shipping Company. Titanic is the second of the three super mail ships. 1912 April 10, the Titanic departed from Southampton, England, passing through Cherbourg-Octville, France and Queenstown, Ireland. The planned destination is new york, USA, and this "dream passenger ship" was started. At 0: 40 pm on April 1 14, Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank at 2: 20 am on April 15 after two hours and forty minutes. Due to the lack of enough lifeboats, 1500 people were buried at the bottom of the sea, which caused the most serious maritime accident in peacetime. The film Titanic is based on this true story.

Titanic cost 75 million pounds, with a tonnage of 46,328 tons, a length of 882.9 feet and a width of 92.5 feet. From the keel to the top of the four large chimneys, it is 175 feet, and its height is equivalent to 1 1 floor. It was a first-class super luxury ship at that time.

In May 2006, the last female survivor who witnessed the shipwreck died at the age of 99. At present, two female survivors are still alive, but they were less than one year old when the accident happened, so they will not have memories of the incident.

19 12 April 14, Sunday night, a quiet night. There is no wind at all. If there is, the crew on the ship will find the little phosphorescence of the waves on the iceberg. Titanic sailed on this dark and cold ocean at a speed of 22 knots. Captain Smith ordered the lookout to observe carefully after receiving ice reports from many ships nearby. This year's iceberg drifted farther south than in previous years. Surprisingly, however, although the first class has customized gold-plated stair handrails and Indian hand-woven carpets, White Star Company has not equipped binoculars for the spectators! ! 1 1: 40, looking at Frederick? Fleet (who survived later) found a shadow "the size of two tables" in the distance, which became bigger at a fast speed. He knocked the alarm bell on the bridge three times and grabbed the phone: "There is an iceberg directly ahead!" " ".Six Moody officials who answered the phone informed the first mate Murdoch next to them. Murdoch ordered to slow down, left full rudder, stop the ship and reverse the car. It turns out that this is the stupidest decision. At that time, the best choice was to speed up, leave enough rudder and take some risks; Or slow down and hit an iceberg with a solid bow. 19 12 On that cold night in April, the Titanic and the iceberg kissed each other in death.

The result of this collision was later known to people. But at that time, the passengers and crew on board reacted differently. Some passengers who didn't sleep well in first class and second class were awakened by a slight metal scraping sound. The hull gave a slight vibration. Some people think it's a big wave, some people think it's hitting the rocks, and some people think it's propeller failure. But the passengers in the cabin below felt much stronger vibration. Some passengers saw milky white icebergs passing by outside the porthole. Some scraped ice fell into the cabin. The immigrant passengers on the ground floor were even more shocked to find that the cold sea water was overflowing the car door from a place I didn't know. The ship stopped soon. Some passengers put on their coats and came to the deck. The stars are shining over the North Atlantic, and the temperature is as low as MINUS one degree. Under the dark sky, the window of Titanic gave off a warm light yellow light. Four tall yellow and black chimneys were filled with white steam smoke. Suddenly, the three of them suddenly gave a deafening roar and scream. Passengers who know about steam engines know that it is the boiler safety valve on board that releases excess superheated high-pressure steam. Who did Captain Smith and Harlan notify? Thomas, chief shipbuilding engineer of Wolf Company? Andrews will check the damage together. The five carriages in front are all submerged in the sea. The sea seems to be flowing through H deck in an orderly way. In the dim light of the mail cabin, packages of mail floated on the sea. After checking all watertight compartments, Andrews said quietly to Captain Smith, "This ship is hopeless." . Captain Smith asked how much time was left, and the answer was one hour, two hours at the most. What happened after that is already very clear to everyone. At 0: 05 am on June 5438+05, Captain Smith ordered the lifeboat to be released. At 0: 00 15, Titanic sent out a distress signal of "CQD·MGY". CQD was the universal distress signal at that time, and MGY was the radio calling code of Titanic. Soon after, the SOS distress signal newly determined by the International Maritime Association was issued. Many ships in the Atlantic Ocean have received distress telegrams. The Temple Mount of Canadian Pacific Company, Carpathian of Canard Company, Myanmar, Frankfurt and Virginia of Russian cargo ships are all accelerating to the accident site. The exception is that the operator of the tramp liner "California" just outside 18 nautical miles turned off the telegram and fell asleep. The ship has been trapped by ice floes for nearly a day, and nothing serious happened on board all night, as if nothing serious would happen.

Titanic! 19 12 apr 14 once the melody of the picture echoed in my ears.

At 0045 hours, the first lifeboat was lowered. The ship launched its first rocket in distress. A shining white spark slowly falls. At 0: 55, the bow of the Titanic was submerged. The work by the lifeboat is a mess. Although the virtues of women and children (women and children in first class and second class) boarding lifeboats first have been observed, many lifeboats are lowered in mid-air. However, this can't blame the crew. At that time, the maritime community believed that if the lifeboat was full of people, it would cause damage and even capsize. Titanic's lifeboat was well designed, but the crew didn't know it. Results 1 178 people can be carried in the lifeboat, and only 65 1 people got on it (someone jumped into the sea and was rescued from the lifeboat). 1: 40, the last folding lifeboat was put into the sea. The band on the ship accompanied the passengers and used music to appease those who were doomed to die in a few minutes, playing until the last minute. Faced with the choice between life and death, some people choose to die like a gentleman. Rich Guggenheim put on his evening dress. "Even if you die, you must die like a gentleman." Mrs Evans from Denver gave her lifeboat seat to the mother of a child, while Ismail, the chairman of White Star Company, left his passengers, crew and his boat at the last minute and jumped into the lifeboat. The goodness and evil of human nature are exposed here. As more and more sea water poured into the front of the hull, the stern gradually left the water and tilted high. 65438+ At 0: 35 in the morning, seawater was immersed in the boiler room. 10: 02, Phillips, who has been sticking to his post, sent the last distress telegram. At 2: 00 13, 29 large boilers on board left the base one after another, collided with each other and broke a watertight wall. The bow of the ship broke a big hole and fell into the sea. At 2: 00 17, seawater flooded into the central power control room, causing a short circuit and the lights of the whole ship went out. 18 at 2: 00 am, with a loud noise, the Titanic hull broke into two parts from the third and fourth chimneys. At 2: 20, the bow part sank into the sea, and the second half hit the sea. In less than a minute, it sank into the water with the first half of the Titanic. 1503 passengers and crew are on call.

People who fell into the water soon lost consciousness. What awaits them is rapid hypothermia, nerve paralysis and death. The people in the lifeboat also froze to death. Some people completely rely on strong will, half-immersed in cold sea water, and hold on to the overturned lifeboat No.2. Mrs. Brown of lifeboat 6 insisted on saving those who were still in the water, but she was seriously threatened by the crew on the lifeboat. It was not until half past three that Canard's passenger ship Carpathia arrived at the scene of the accident first. At 4 o'clock, the crew of Carpathia found the first lifeboat in the twilight of the North Atlantic. The rescue work continued until 8: 30 in the morning, and the lifeboat 12 tied the rescue cable. Of the 2208 crew and passengers on the Titanic, only 705 survived. The captain and priest of the Carpathia hosted a mourning ceremony in the dining room. At 8: 50, turn around and return to new york.

On April 18, the Karpas arrived at new york Port. Thousands of people watched them pass the Statue of Liberty on the Waterray coast of Manhattan Island. At Pier 54, about 30,000 people stood in the rain, silently welcoming the survivors of the Titanic. The news of the sinking of Titanic shocked the whole western world. At that time, people were no less shocked than the 9. 1 1 incident in the United States in this century. Flags were flown at half-mast in many places on both sides of the Atlantic. King George V of England and President Taft of the United States exchanged messages of condolence. Kaiser Wilhelm II also sent a message of condolence.

Consequences and effects of shipwreck

Titanic is the product of the peak of human dreams, which embodies the strong self-confidence of human beings to dominate the world. Her sinking showed mankind the mysterious power of nature and the unpredictability of fate. On the day the Titanic sank, people in the western world had enjoyed 100 years of stability and peace. With the steady progress of science and technology and the rapid development of industry, people are full of confidence in the future. The sinking of the Titanic awakened all this. This unsinkable ship is the largest man-made steel structure after the Eiffel Tower and a great achievement in the industrial age. Because it was careless about the forces of nature, it sank on its first maiden voyage. Titanic will always remind people of the price of human arrogance and self-confidence. People will never forget this picture: Titanic held her head high at the bottom of the sea, and ruins and stains could not hide her nobility. This is where she belongs. History has thus evolved into a legend.

The disaster shocked the international community. Because it proves to some people that people and their scientific and technological achievements cannot be compared with the forces of nature.

At that time, the steelmaking technology was not very mature, and the steel produced was not made by modern standards. The steel plate used in Titanic contains many chemical impurities, such as zinc sulfide, which, combined with long-term immersion in cold seawater, makes the steel plate more fragile.

Titanic! 19 12 apr 14 once the melody of the picture echoed in my ears.

On the other hand, the schematic diagram of the collision of the Titanic is not in line with the public's idea: there are also many statements about the sinking form of the Titanic. Including the sinking of the whole ship; The hull folds near the middle of the second and third chimneys and then sinks vertically; The hull was folded near the middle of the third and fourth chimneys, then the front hull dragged the stern and the stern sank vertically. Until 1985 and 1 September, the famous scientist Ballard found the wreckage of Titanic in the sea about 380 miles southeast of Newfoundland, which was the bow part of the first two chimneys and the stern part behind the fourth chimney, which initially proved the third theory. And this theory was later developed by James? Cameron directed the film Titanic and experienced it personally. At that time, everyone thought that the hull of the third chimney had been blown to pieces and would never be found. However, in August 2005, an archaeological team sponsored by the History Channel found this part of the hull 500 meters behind the wreckage at the stern. The wreckage is about 12 m by 27 m, and the red paint on the bottom of the ship is still clearly visible. This discovery overturns the "double cut theory" of the past 20 years. Scientists believe that the Titanic sank after breaking three sections.

When the Titanic sank, it did use the internationally used Morse code distress signal SOS, but this was not the earliest example of SOS. SOS signal was first put forward at the International Radiocommunication Conference on the outskirts of Berlin in 1906. 1908, the international community recognized this proposal and gradually began to use it widely, four years before the sinking of the Titanic. However, British radio operators rarely use SOS signals, and they prefer the old CQD distress signals. John George Philip, the chief radio officer of Titanic, kept sending CQD distress signals until Harold Brad, a junior radio operator, suggested him to send SOS, which is a new call signal. This may be your last chance to send it! Then Philip mixed the SOS signal with the traditional CQD distress signal. Because there was no 24-hour radio, the California ship finally received a distress signal the next morning.

The sinking of Titanic greatly affected shipbuilding and radio and telegraph communication. 19131February 12 Therefore, the first international conference on the safety of life at sea was held in London, England. The treaty reached at the meeting contributed to the establishment and capital investment of the international iceberg inspection organization. The United States Coast Guard, a subsidiary of the organization, is still detecting and reporting icebergs that may threaten ships in the North Atlantic until today. The treaty also unanimously reached a new regulation: all manned ships must have enough lifeboats to carry all the people on board, and appropriate related training should be carried out. In addition, the radio communication should be open 24 hours a day, plus the secondary standby power supply, so that the distress signal will not be missed. The treaty also agreed that any rocket launched from a ship must be interpreted as a distress signal.

Even today, after 1 century, several absurd stories about Titanic and its sinking still exist. One is that her rudder is too small, and a bigger rudder can avoid this disaster. A bigger rudder may have saved her, when the size of her rudder is not small for the size of her hull. In fact, according to today's regulations on ships, the size of the rudder of Titanic is still qualified. Another way of saying this is that there were not enough lifeboats on the Titanic. In fact, the number of her lifeboats complies with British law. The number of people stipulated by law is not based on the number of passengers, but on the tonnage of the ship. At that time, the number of lifeboats on all ships was far below the required number, and the purpose of lifeboats at that time was not to hold all passengers; They are only used to transfer passengers from sunken ships to another rescue ship. At that time, the international maritime safety rules were that the number of lifeboats on passenger ships was one-third of the total number of people on board, and the lifeboats on Titanic could carry half of the passengers. White Star Company is also very aggrieved that this extra configuration of "being highly responsible for passenger safety" has not attracted public attention. The sinking of the Titanic changed this life-saving strategy forever. After the sinking of the Titanic, new maritime safety regulations were formulated. The requirements for lifeboats are simple: they must be able to accommodate all the people on board. According to the new requirements, major shipping companies quickly carried out the transformation work. In fact, even if she can load more lifeboats to carry all the passengers, there may still be no guarantee that more people will be rescued, because when she sank, the crew had not had time to put down all the lifeboats! There is also a saying that the crew of the mechanical group stick to their posts until the end. A book published by 1988 also mentioned this point and made it immortal. In fact, the mechanical cabin was flooded at 1: 15AM. At the last moment of sinking, mechanics and furnace workers stood on the stern deck like hundreds of others, trapped in the ship, without any hope of being rescued.

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At 23: 00, the tape recorder was broken. Jack Philip and his assistant Harold Brad have been repairing the machine all night. They must be repaired before 5 o'clock in the morning.

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2 1: 00 Titanic received iceberg warnings from Caronia and Cap. Smith gave it to the guard on duty.

23: 40. Frederick? Fleet (who survived later) found an iceberg and sounded the alarm three times on the bridge.

Before 24: 00, the Titanic and the iceberg had a kiss of death.

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At 0: 05, Captain Smith ordered the lifeboat to be released.

At 0: 00 15, Titanic sent out a distress signal of "CQD·MGY". CQD was the universal distress signal at that time, and MGY was the radio calling code of Titanic. Soon after, the SOS distress signal newly confirmed by the International Maritime Association was issued. Many ships in the Atlantic Ocean have received distress telegrams.

At 0045 hours, the first lifeboat was lowered. The ship launched its first rocket in distress. A shiny white spark slowly falls.

At 0: 55, the bow of the Titanic was submerged.

1: 35 seawater immersion in boiler room

1: 40 The last folding lifeboat was put into the sea. The band on the ship accompanied the passengers and used music to appease those who were doomed to die in a few minutes, playing until the last minute.

At 2: 10, Phillips, who has been sticking to his post, sent the last distress telegram.

2: 13 Twenty-nine large boilers on board left the base one after another, collided with each other and broke a watertight wall. The bow of the ship broke a big hole and fell into the sea.

2: 17 seawater flooded into the central power control room, causing a short circuit and the lights of the whole ship went out.

2: 18 With a loud noise, the Titanic hull broke in two from the middle of the third and fourth chimneys.

At 2: 20, the bow part sank into the sea, the second half hit the sea surface, and sank into the water with the first half of the Titanic within one minute. 1503 passengers and crew are on call.

At 3: 30, Canard's passenger ship Carpathia first arrived at the scene of the accident.

At 4 o'clock, the crew of the Carpathia found the first lifeboat in the twilight of the North Atlantic. The rescue work continued until 8: 30 in the morning, and the lifeboat 12 was tied with the rescue cable.

At 8: 50, Karpas turned around and returned to new york.

1985/9/ 1

Marine investigators finally found part of the wreckage of the bow of the Titanic, which had been sleeping for 73 years, at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

1 19 12 April 15 Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg (Figure)

191April 15, the proud Titanic of British White Star Shipping Company crashed into a mountain at a distance of 0/50 km from Newfoundland/kloc, causing it to sink.

The Titanic is about 269 meters long, with a displacement of more than 46,000 tons, and the first-class fare is equivalent to 50,000 dollars today. This huge ship has 16 drainage tanks, which is said to be unsinkable. The largest and most luxurious ship ever, originally scheduled to arrive at new york Port on 16.

On April 10, Titanic started its maiden voyage from Southampton, England. In order to win the Blue Ribbon Award, the highest honor of ocean-going ships in the North Atlantic, Captain edward smith chose a shorter summer route to cross the Atlantic Ocean, which is usually not taken in winter to avoid collision with icebergs. However, Captain Smith still sailed through the glacier zone in the North Atlantic at full speed at 22 knots (equal to 465,438+0 km/h). At 23: 45 on June 4, 65438, the 269-meter-long ship collided with an iceberg, tearing a 90-meter crack from starboard to the center of the hull, and seawater poured into the hull. Captain Smith immediately issued CQD and SOS distress signals and ordered the lifeboat to be released. Because the number of lifeboats is too small to accommodate all 2224 passengers, the order on board is chaotic. Titanic, full of rich and famous people, finally sank at 2: 20 am on April 5, with 15 13 passengers killed, and only 7 1 1 people survived. Among the dead were some industrial elites, such as john jacob astor and isidor Strauss, who founded the famous Macy's department store in the United States, and Thomas Andrews, the designer of Titan mink.

Obviously, most passengers didn't realize the accident. When the ship collided with an iceberg, it trembled slightly, not violently. At first, the passengers didn't care. They are still dressed in the cabin and ready to eat.

Reply:1912 On April 15, the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank (Figure).

The Titanic sank in the sea near Newfoundland.

Reply: 19 12 April 15 Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg (Figure)

People in the street learned from the newspaper that the unsinkable ship had sunk.

Reply: 19 12 April 15 Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg (Figure)

Many factors have increased the number of people killed in this shipwreck: there are not enough lifeboats, many people put down the water before they are full, and some people are stupid enough to stay in big ships instead of giving their lives to these small boats; Some passing ships didn't believe the distress signal they received and didn't arrive quickly. In addition, because the climate is very cold, although many people surfaced after the sinking, the cold seawater means that the people immersed in it will die soon, and the life-saving vest is almost useless. Two lifeboats full of people who escaped from the Titanic were swept into the bottom of the sea by the vortex formed when the Titanic sank.

There are many touching stories in the process of escape: the orchestra on board was still playing until the last moment when the ship sank; Most of the crew and their wives refused to rescue them. They held hands with their husbands on the ship and sank to the bottom of the sea with Titan. Millionaire john jacob astor put his bride in a lifeboat and left him on the boat. People have never seen him since. ......

Due to this shipwreck, 19 13 the first international conference on life safety at sea was held in London, calling for strengthening safety and rescue measures.

On September 1985, the wreck of Titanic was found near Newfoundland.

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Titanic photo album

Titanic under construction

Captain titanic

The maiden voyage of Titanic

Passengers escaped from the Titanic.