Titanic plot summary

Answer 1

A summary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic would be described as a very tragic event which took 1,517 lives. It was a shock to hundreds of people as another name for the Titanic was 'the unsinkable ship'. It had hit and iceberg at 11:40pm on the 14th of April 1912. Four hours later on the 15th of April 1912 the Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. It only had sixteen life boats aboard, and none of these lifeboats were completly filled. Life boat 1 left at 1:10am and had only 12 people on board. It could of held fourty people. Women and children were called on to lifeboats first. Two of those passengers were women. Five of those people were actual passengers. The seven people remaining were crew members.

Answer 2

The movie is about a first class girl, named Rose Dewitt Bukater (played by Kate Winslet), meeting a third class boy, named Jack Dawson (played by Leonardo DiCaprio). Rose is engaged to Caldon Hockley (played by Billy Zane) when she meets Jack Dawson. Rose and Jack's love is torn apart by both Caldon's jelosey and the sinking of R.M.S. Titanic. I strongly recommend watching Titanic, as it is a very good drama and romance.

Titanic was the biggest ship ever built in the world. People began to bored the cruise ship in England. They set off to New York. There were three classes: 1st class, 2nd class, and 3rd class. 3rd class was the poorest class, where 1st was the richest. The ship was known as 'unsinkable', but sadly the great cruise luxury stuck any ice berg in April 1912. There were not enough lifeboats for everyone. More people ended up dead, than alive. There was about 2,000 people that boarded the Titanic, but only about 700 survived. The survivors got saved by the Carpatha, a smaller ship. Then the Carpatha went to New York, to drop off its passengers.

Since the Titanic sank, people have been looking for it for years. Sometime in the 1980's, the Titanic was found. It is considered off-limits as a watery grave site.

Answer 3

well, there is this spolied rich girl named rose. her mother is forcing her to marry this creep or else they would be broke. they are all on the maiden (and last) voyage of the Titanic. she feels very suppressed. she decides to commit suicide by jumping off the front of the boat. the poor artist, jack dawson, saves her and they become friends. her mother and fiancee dont like him, but rose and him fall in love. Her fiancee gives her a giant blue diamond necklace. the boat hits the inevitable ice berg and rose and jack fall in the ocean. They are clinging onto a door, but jack freezes to death. the rescue boats come and rose is saved. in the end, she throws the gihugous diamond her fiancee gave her into the ocean.

Answer 4

"...The Propellers rosed high out the air and the stern rosed high into the air, the lights were going out, the lights went out, we begun to hear a mighty roar, then Titanic broke apart, the Bow and Stern separated, then the Titanic's stern rosed high into the air and stood there for a few minutes, then the Titanic's stern begun flooding with water. A Minute later, the Titanic was gone." - Charles Lightoller

Answer 5

In 1898 (14 years prior to the Titanic tragedy), Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called Futility. This fictitious novel was about the largest ship ever built hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic ocean on a cold April night. The fictional ship (named Titan) and the real ship Titanic were similar in design and their circumstances were remarkably alike. Both ships were labeled "unsinkable".

RMS stands for Royal Mail Steamer. RMS, in formal terms, means "Royal Merchant Ship". However, the dual meaning was also "Royal Mail Steamer", because the Titanic carried mail under the auspices of His Majesty's postal authorities. At that time, all ships, military and civilian, that were under the British flag carried the distinction of "R.M.S." This, in effect, gave the ship the protection of the British Crown. An attack on an R.M.S. was considered an attack on the crown and an act of war.

Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.

There were no cats on the Titanic. Cats were often brought on ships as a form of good luck. They also controlled rodents.

The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State Building is tall.

The Tower Bridge, located in London England, is approximately the same length and height as the Titanic.

Originally, the Titanic's design only included 3 funnels (smokestacks). The aftmost funnel (towards stern) was added to make the Titanic look more impressive-it gave the feeling of "power and grace". It only functioned as an air vent.

No one ever claimed that the Titanic was "unsinkable". The quote, "practically unsinkable" was taken out of context. In 1911, Shipbuilder magazine published an article describing the construction of the Titanic. The article stated that when the watertight doors were closed, the ship would be "practically unsinkable".

It was customary to break a bottle of champagne on the bow of a boat when launched. The Titanic launching did not include the traditional bottle-breaking.

Many of the passengers were not originally suppose to be traveling on the Titanic. Due to a strike, coal was in short supply. This shortage threatened Titanic's maiden voyage and forced the White Star Line to cancel travel on the Oceanic and Adriatic and transfer their passengers and coal stocks to the Titanic.

There were 13 couples on board celebrating their Honeymoons.

Captain Smith was planning to retire after Titanic's maiden voyage.

The Titanic had 4 elevators (3 in First class and 1 in Second class).

At the time, Titanic's whistles were the largest ever made.

Titanic's whistles could be heard from a distance of 11 miles.

The Titanic carried 900 tons of baggage and freight.

The Titanic used 14,000 gallons of drinking water every 24 hours.

Coal consumption per day: 825 tons.

Carried 20 lifeboats and 3560 life jackets. The life jackets were made of canvas and cork.

More than 3 million rivets were used to build the Titanic.

In a test done to determine stopping distance, the Titanic was accelerated to 20 knots and then the engines were reversed at full power. The distance required to stop the Titanic was about half a mile.

The Titanic's radio call sign was: MGY.

Port of Registry - Liverpool, England. Registry date: March 24, 1912.

Official ship number: 131,428

The number 3909 04 was NOT assigned to the Titanic as a hull number.

The lookouts in the crow's nest did not have binoculars. Having binoculars might have prevented the Titanic tragedy.

The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg to impact was a little over 30 seconds.

The Titanic sank 2 hours and 40 minutes after hitting the iceberg.

It probably took Titanic about 15 minutes to sink to her final resting place on the ocean floor. That means that Titanic sank at a rate of 10 miles per hour (or 16 km per hour).

The Titanic hit the iceberg on the starboard (right) side of the bow. It has been speculated that the Titanic may have suffered only minor damage and minimal loss of life had it hit the iceberg head-on. It has also been suggested that the Titanic may have completely avoided colliding with the iceberg had the bridge not requested that the engines be reversed ("Full Astern"), prior to steering the ship to the left ("Hard-a-starboard"). This action would have decreased the forward momentum of the Titanic causing it to turn at a slower rate.

July and August are the only two months the weather permits expeditions to the Titanic wreck site.

Strange, but True:

British spiritualist, William T. Stead, wrote a tale similar to Futility (mentioned at the top of the page). "How the Mail Steamer went down in the Mid Atlantic, by a Survivor" appeared in the March, 1886 issue of Pall Mall Gazette. In this story, Stead tells of a large steamship that sinks after colliding with another ship. Many lives are lost due to lack of lifeboats. Stead wrote that, "This is exactly what might take place and what will take place, if the liners are sent to sea short of boats". Stead was travelling to the United States at the request of President Taft to address a peace conference at Carnegie Hall on April 20, 1912. Stead sat calmly in the library reading a book as the North Atlantic sea water came rushing in as the ship he was traveling on sank. That ship was the Titanic. Stead did not survive.

William T. Stead also authored the novel From the Old World to the New. In this book, he describes the sinking of a ship in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. To add to the irony, the captain of the ship which picked up the survivors, was Edward J. Smith -- the eventual captain of Titanic.

Price of a ticket (in 1912):

First Class: $4,350 (price of finest 1st class suite)

Second Class: $1,750

Third Class: $30

The Titanic carried a total of 20 lifeboats. 14 of these lifeboats were wooden and each one had a capacity of 65 persons, 2 were wood cutters with a capacity of 40 persons each and 4 were collapsibles (wood bottoms and canvas sides) and each collapsible was capable of carrying 47 persons. The total capacity of all 20 lifeboats was 1,178 people. This was obviously not enough lifeboats to save all the 2201 people on board the Titanic. If every lifeboat left the Titanic filled to maximum capacity, 1,023 persons would have been left behind. Unfortunately, very few lifeboats were filled to maximum capacity when they were lowered from the Titanic into the icy water. This caused the death toll to rise dramatically. When the order came from Captain Smith to commence loading the lifeboats, the Titanic's Officers were probably unaware of the magnitude of the situation. Their apparent complacency did not instill a sense of urgency and therefore caused many passengers to balk at the opportunity to get into a lifeboat. To make matters worse, there were never any lifeboat drills and the crew had not been informed that each lifeboat could be safely lowered when filled to capacity. Only 711 persons were rescued and 1490 died. Luckily, the Titanic was not filled to capacity (3,547 persons). If this were the case, there would only be enough lifeboats to save one-third of the people (assuming that every lifeboat was filled to capacity).

Why so few lifeboats? Well, believe it or not, the Titanic actually exceeded the number of lifeboats required by the Board of Trade at that time. The regulations, ratified in 1894, applied to ships of 10,000 gross tons or larger. As ships increased in size over the years, the lifeboat requirements stayed the same. The Titanic was designed to carry a total of 48 lifeboats, but the White Star Line decided that passenger comfort was most important. They believed that an increase in the number of lifeboats (beyond 20) would have cluttered the decks and taken up valuable space. Harland and Wolff tried to persuade the White Star Line to install more lifeboats, but eventually gave up the fight. As they say, "the customer is always right".

When the lifeboat needs were finalized, the general feeling was that the modern ship was engineered and built so well that even if a ship was in a situation where it might sink, there would be plenty of time for other ships in the area to come to the rescue. It was also believed that the main purpose of the lifeboats was to ferry passengers and crew from the distressed ship to the rescue ship(s). The Titanic tragedy prompted laws requiring that ships carry enough lifeboats for all passengers and crew.