Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partially loaded. The collision caused the ship’s hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard (right) side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea she could only survive four flooding. Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people-slightly more than half of the number on board, and one third of her total capacity.Īfter leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York. On 14 April, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. Although Titanic had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, there were not enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard, due to outdated maritime safety regulations. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger “marconigrams” and for the ship’s operational use. The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe who were seeking a new life in the United States. High as they did before.Titanic was under the command of Edward Smith, who also went down with the ship.
In addition to someīulkheads being raised, three others were reduced in height because they no longer needed to go as Not any group of six that could be flooded, just 5 particular groups of six. Make the ship into a 6 compartment vessel, as some people have been led to believe, because it was The arrangement and height of the major watertight bulkheads was such that there were five groups ofĦ ajoining major compartments that could be flooded without danger of the ship sinking. At the right is a partial cross-sectional diagram showing the added inner skin. 5 had to be replaced with one of slightly smaller diameter (goingįrom 15' 9'' to 13' 6'').
#Titanic watertight compartments series
Therby dividing the space into a series of watertight compartments. The space between the inner and outer skins was also dividedīy watertight subdivisions, both horizontally and vertically, between the major watertight bulkheads This inner skin, of about 1/2 inch steel plate, was carried from the tank top to the bottom of Middleĭeck F, and was spaced 36 inches from the outer hull plating between deck F and Lower deck G,Īnd 30 inches from the outer hull plating below deck G, the depth of the original web frames. Mislabeled as an internal profile of Titanic, which it is not.) A picture of Olympic's profile with these changes can also be seen in Tom McCluskie's book, Anatomy of the Titanic, on pages 38-39.
#Titanic watertight compartments skin
It made for some difficulties in passengers getting about.īelow is a diagram that shows the original watertight bulkhead arrangement of Olympic and Titanic as completed, and the arrangement for Olympic following her refit inĮarly 1913, including the extent of the added inner skin including its watertight subdivisions (all outlined in dark blue ) and the her watertight bulkheads ( shown in
These modifications, really a knee-jerk reaction to the Titanic disaster, came at a cost not only in monitary terms but also in passenger comfort by interfering with some (For more details, please refer to fine books by Mark Chirnside, The 'Olympic' Class Ships: Olympic, Titanic & Britannic, and RMS Olympic: Titanic's Besides the bulkhead modifications and the addition of an inner skin, changes were also made to the pumping arrangement on board with the addition of an extra line of
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