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In 2022, Claes-Gõran Wetterholm, an author and expert on the Titanic, said it was 'not true' that women and children survived thanks to the gallantry of men. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a ' women and children first' protocol for loading lifeboats. Some passengers and crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partially loaded. The collision caused the hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard (right) side and laid five of her sixteen watertight compartments open to the sea she had been designed to survive the flooding of up to four compartments. On 14 April, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm ship's time. Titanic had departed from Southampton on 10 April 1912, then stopped at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, before heading west towards New York. In addition, when the ship sank, many of the lifeboats that had been lowered were only about half full.

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Together, the 20 lifeboats were capable of holding 1,178 people-which was only about half the number of passengers on board, and only one-third of the number of passengers that the ship could have carried at full capacity (this was consistent with the maritime safety regulations of the era). The ship was equipped with 16 lifeboat davits, each of which were capable of lowering three lifeboats, for a total of 48 boats the Titanic carried only 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsible and proved hard to launch while the ship was sinking. The Titanic had advanced safety features, such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors. 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 a 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. Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the ship. Thomas Andrews, who was the chief naval architect of the shipyard at that time, died in the disaster. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. The disaster drew much public attention, provided foundational material for the disaster film genre, and has inspired many artistic works. It remains to this day the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, which made the sinking possibly one of the deadliest for a single ship up to that time.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City. Lifeboats: 20 (sufficient for 1,178 people) Total: 3,327 (or 3,547 according to other sources)

Two three-blade wing propellers and one three-blade centre propellerĬruising: 21 kn (39 km/h 24 mph). Struck an iceberg at 11:40 pm (ship's time) 14 April 1912 on her maiden voyage and sank 2 h 40 min later on 15 April 1912 109 years ago ( ).Ģ4 double-ended and five single-ended boilers feeding two reciprocating steam engines for the wing propellers, and a low-pressure turbine for the centre propeller output: 46,000 HP Titanic departing Southampton on 10 April 1912

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