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History of the Titanic
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Ok, First of all it is the largest boating mortality in history!.
Many Famous people/millionares were on the Titanic!.!.
It directly affected over 1,000 families!.
Institued many laws!.

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/List_of_pas!.!.!.
List of passengers!.!.


http://www!.titanic-online!.com/
http://www!.britannica!.com/titanic/

Titanic Historical Society
http://www!.titanic1!.org/

Titanic was indeed in american history it was travling to New York!. many of the 3,000 people on the boat were Orginally from America!.

Books on the titanic
A Night to Remember - by Walter Lord - 208 pages
Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy - by John P!. Eaton, Charles A!. Haas - 352 pages
The Truth about the Titanic - by Colonel Archibald Gracie, Archibald Gracie - 368 pages

How could you argue!?
what caused the boat to sink!?
Should there have been more lifeboats on the titanic IE enough boats for all 3,000 passengers, instead of the issued legal amount of 20boats, and 4 inflatable boats, enough for only half the occupants of the boat!.
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RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, UK!. On the night of 14 April 1912, during her maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg, and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on 15 April 1912!. At the time of her launching in 1912, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world!.

The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people, ranking it as the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history!. The Titanic used some of the most advanced technology available at the time and was, after the sinking, popularly believed to have been described as “unsinkable”!. It was a great shock to many that despite the advanced technology and experienced crew, the Titanic sank with a great loss of life!. The media frenzy about Titanic's famous victims, the legends about what happened on board the ship, the resulting changes to maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck in 1985 by a team led by Robert Ballard have made Titanic persistently famous in the years since!.

more on Wikipedia!.org!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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It was built by Harland and Wolff ship builders, in Belfast, for the White Star Line company!. At 11:40 PM on April 14, 1912, during Titanic's maiden voyage, it hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean!. The iceberg broke the Titanic's hull (bottom) making water to come into the ship!. The Titanic sank two hours and forty minutes later at 2:20 AM on April 15!. It killed more than 1,500 people!. It was one of the worst peacetime shipping disasters!.Before the survivors even arrived in New York, investigations were being planned to discover what had happened, and what could be done to prevent a recurrence!. The United States Senate initiated an inquiry into the disaster on 19 April a day after Carpathia arrived in New York!.

The chairman of the inquiry, Senator William Alden Smith, wanted to gather accounts from passengers and crew while the events were still fresh in their minds!. Smith also needed to subpoena the British citizens while they were still on American soil!. This prevented all surviving passengers and crew from returning to England before the American inquiry, which lasted until 25 May!.

Lord Mersey was appointed to head the British Board of Trade's inquiry into the disaster!. The British inquiry took place between 2 May and 3 July!. Each inquiry took testimony from both passengers and crew of the Titanic, crew members of Leyland Line's Californian, Captain Arthur Rostron of the Carpathia and other experts!.

The investigations found that many safety rules were simply out of date, and new laws were recommended!. Numerous safety improvements for ocean-going vessels were implemented, including improved hull and bulkhead design, access throughout the ship for egress of passengers, lifeboat requirements, improved life-vest design, the holding of safety drills, better passenger notification, radio communications laws, etc!. The investigators also learned that the Titanic had sufficient lifeboat space for all first-class passengers, but not for the lower classes!. In fact, most third-class, or steerage, passengers had no idea where the lifeboats were, much less any way of getting up to the higher decks where the lifeboats were stowed!.
The sinking of the RMS Titanic was a factor that influenced later maritime practices, ship design, and the seafaring culture!. Changes included the establishment of the International Ice Patrol, a requirement for twenty-four-hour radio watch keeping on foreign-going passenger ships, and new regulations related to lifeboats
The sinking of Titanic changed the way passenger ships were designed!. Many existing ships, such as the Olympic, were refitted for increased safety!. Besides increasing the number of lifeboats on board, improvements included reinforcing the hull and increasing the height of the watertight bulkheads!. The bulkheads on Titanic extended 10 feet (3 m) above the waterline; after Titanic sank, the bulkheads on other ships were extended higher to make compartments fully watertight!. While Titanic had a double bottom, she did not have a double hull; after her sinking, new ships were designed with double hullsWww@QuestionHome@Com

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The Titanic is about American history because it had many Americans on board when it sank, plus it was on its way to New York!.

Its sinking effected the entire world!. It showed that whatever man makes, can fall!. Man is not invincible!. Man gets a little cocky (understatement)!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I am not going for best answer here but errrr ehhmm, "the love story never happened!.!.!.!." Yes, that is right it was made up to suck us in to spend money on the Movie!.!.!.

Google the titanic, there are pictures you can scan of the actual people on the boat etc!.!.!. And the history of it as well!.

You don't need help just google!.!.!.

Oh and the pretty blue necklace that was never on the boat either!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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To add a little to the posts above, the Titanic disaster heightened awareness of maritime passenger safety in general, and metallurgy specifically!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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