The ‘titanic’
sink
The titanic was the
greatest passenger ship of its time. It was touted as ‘practically unsinkable’.
It was fitted with the latest gadgets an
emergency facilities. About 1,517 people were travelling on its maiden voyage. It
set sail from Southampton, England on 12th April 1912. Its captain
was Edward Smith, a sailor with 26 years
of sailing experience the ship was to cross the Atlantic ocean. On 14th
April 1912, it struck an iceberg and sank within two hours and forty minutes. The
iceberg caused the hull to buckle allowing water to enter the ship. The cause
of this accident was in the design of the ship itself. The steel plating of the
ship was of the type that becomes brittle in cold icy water. The rivets used in
the hull were fragile. The rubber size was not enough to enough to turn a ship
of that size.
