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 to begin 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

The Construction of the R.M.S Titanic

CREATING A PALACE

 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.

A closer look at the Titanic itself

THE MIGHTY SHIP

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 the world 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 together with 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 steam from the other engines. The engines all had a combined amount of 51,000 hp. These engines also had quite an appetite, burning 660 tons of coal daily.

 So, it seems as if these shipbuilders can produce anything of that magnitude, you would think they are advanced enough to make the Titanic truly unsinkable or as unsinkable as possible, but they didnt.

The many flaws that sank the Titanic

SINKABLE

 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 didnt 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 the lifeboat 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 were breaking 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 tragedy many 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 wasnt just another old ship build, but it really did change their lives forever.

 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 Special..