Rms Titanic: Wooden Liner Model

RMS Titanic: Wooden Liner Model

On 14 April 1912, an aura of complacency pervaded the bridge, although Titanic wireless operators Jack Philips and Harold Bride received warnings of an ice field ahead of this ship. The first of the six messages came at 13:40, but only one was formally posted on the bridge, which Commodore Edward J. Smith disregarded...

RMS Titanic: Wooden Liner Model

Where appropriate, all scale ship models are constructed with hardwood using the plank-on-frame technique and built to scale using ships' drawings. The models use cotton sails and rigging and in the case of the larger vessels are suitable for use as exhibits in galleries or museums. Many models are available in Large and Small sizes with both versions offering the same level of detail.

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Length (cm)	Width (cm)	Height (cm)	Type	Nation
110	15	34	Liner	UK

RMS Titanic: Ship's History

Original specifications: Liner (4 f/2 m); Dimensions (L/B): 259.7 x 28 m); Hull: Steel; Complement: 1st class: 1,034, 2nd class: 510, 3rd class: 1,026, 941 crew; Maximum speed: 24 knots; Built: Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast, Ireland; Year: 1912

The Royal Mail Ship Titanic was one of the three sister ships laid down for Britain’s White Star Line, then a subsidiary of American financier J. P. Morgan’s International Mercantile Marine.

One of RMS Titanic’s great innovations was the placement of 15 watertight bulkheads (with electrically operated watertight doors) that extended from the ship’s double bottom through four or five of her nine decks and were said to make the ship 'unsinkable'.

Yet for all her safety features, Titanic carried just 16 lifeboats and four collapsible boats, which could handle only 1,178 people, a meagre 35% of the maximum passenger and crew complement of 3,511. Even so, this number exceeded the British Board of Trade’s requirements.

Overseeing this floating city was commodore Edward J Smith, a 25-year veteran of the White Star Line, who postponed his retirement to make the voyage.

The first of the six messages from the radio operators warning of icebergs in Titanic's locality came at 13:40, but only one was formally posted on the bridge and that one Commodore Smith disregarded.

As Titanic ploughed forward into the windless, moonless night at better than 22 knots, at 23:40 lookout Frederick Fleet reported, “Iceberg straight ahead.” As First Officer William Murdoch immediately acted to leave the berg to starboard, the Titanic brushed 200 feet of her hull along a submerged spur that buckled her hull plates.

A hurried examination found that the six foremost watertight compartments had been breached; each would flood and spill successively into the next chamber until she sank. In the wake of the collision, Captain Smith’s behaviour was vague and it was only at his subordinate’s initiative that distress rockets were fired or lifeboats launched.

At 00:15 on 15 April, Titanic sent her first distress call and, at 00:45, she fired her first of eight distress rockets in an effort to bestir a mysterious ship (thought to be the Californian) lying 19 miles away. By 02:20, the last of the lifeboats had pulled away and the ship was perpendicular to the water, her lights still blazing. Finally, she broke apart between the 3rd and 4th funnels and sank in 13,000 feet of water.

Many lifeboats left the ship partially full and, although the Cunard Line's Carpathia rescued 706 survivors, there were 473 empty seats. The death toll was estimated at between 1,500 and 1,635 people.

The story of the Titanic went through succession of interpretation in print and film, most notably Walter Lloyd’s account, A Night to Remember, and a film of the same name.

It was not until 1985 that an expedition led by Dr Robert Ballad succeeded in locating and photographing the ship (the two sections were 1,930 feet away). In 1987, a French expedition removed artefacts from the site despite an international outcry that the wreck should be respected as a mass grave and archaeological site. Part of James Cameron’s Titanic (1997) was filmed on location inside the hull.

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