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Millionaires Special

By: Robert Owens



• On March 31st, 1909, a group of elite

shipbuilders from all across Europe all

congregated on Harland and Wolff shipyard tobegin working on just another old ship build....



• But, what these shipbuilders would piece

together in the next couple of years would be

more than just another old ship build….



• It would change their lives forever….



• 888.5’ long

• 175’ tall

• 51,000 hp

• Weighing in at over 46,000 tons



CREATING A PALACE

The Construction of the R.M.S Titanic



• Construction on the R.M.S. Titanic began on

March 31st, 1909 at Harland and Wolff

Shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.



Build Facts

• Up to 3,000 workers at a time worked on the

ship during its construction.

• The Titanic cost $7.5 million to build.

(equivalent to $400 million today)

• More than 3 million rivets were used to

construct the ship.



Tragedy

• A total of 17 men, including a father and son

died during construction.

•R.I.P



Triumph

• Construction of the Titanic ended and after

much inspecting and many test runs, on May

31st, 1911 the Titanic was launched.



• And the “Unsinkable” Titanic set sail.



THE MIGHTY SHIP

A closer look at the Titanic itself



How Big?

• The proportions of the Titanic were truly

astonishing. At 888.75’ long, 175’ tall, and

weighing in at over 46,000 tons the Titanic

was the largest man-made structure in theworld at the time.



How Big?

• The Titanic consisted of 300 steel sections,

had a 92’ beam, four 62’ tall funnels on top of

the ship, a 1’’ thick outer skin, an overall

capacity of 3,547 passengers, all put togetherwith over 3 million rivets.



The Power plant

• The ship consisted of two four-cylinder steam

reciprocating engines and one low pressure

turbine engine. The turbine, which drove the

center propeller, reused the exhaust steamfrom the other engines. The engines all had a

combined amount of 51,000 hp. These

engines also had quite an appetite, burning660 tons of coal daily.



• So, it seems as if these shipbuilders can

produce anything of that magnitude, you

would think they are advanced enough tomake the Titanic truly “unsinkable” or as

“unsinkable” as possible, but they didn’t.



SINKABLE

The many flaws that sank the Titanic



• When building a ship there are many things

shipbuilders put into consideration, including

“what can I do to make this ship as“unsinkable” as possible.” In the next couple

of slides you will find out the many “sinkable”

factors the builders didn’t quite double check.



• Out of the almost 3 million rivets used most of

them broke because the iron used was very

weak.



• As many of those rivets broke, the ship began

to sink and most of the lifeboats were already

fleeing the crash scene for safety. As thelifeboat supply dwindled to nothing due to the

limited supply, many passengers were still left

aboard to die. The only alternative to lifeboats

were lifejackets, but there was one

problem…..



• The lifejackets were so hard that as the

passengers began putting them on and

jumping from the boat many people werebreaking bones, making them unable to swim,

therefore left to drown.



• None of those flaws would have had to be

encountered in the first place if it were not for

this next flaw. On the night of the tragedymany warnings of that iceberg, and others,

were sent to the Titanic. The crew members

reading all messages in and out of the ship

were notified, but failed to alert the captain.



• So you can tell that what these shipbuilders

built really wasn’t “just another old ship

build”, but it really did change their livesforever.



• In good ways and bad.



• As the survivors were put on trial,



• the shipbuilders cried,



• and 700 men, women, and children were sent

to rot underground.



• Many mourned the tragedy of the Titanic,

even still to this day, of the “Millionaires

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