P5/6A researched a number of people who they thought contributed to the Titanic’s accident becoming one of the most significant disasters of all time.
Each person had a small role to play in the terrible tragedy.
The pupils then led a class debate where we decided who was most responsible, just like the two enquiries held in America and Britain after the accident.
Captain Smith – As the ships captain he was responsible for going too fast on the night and for ignoring several warnings of icebergs in the area.
The Shipbuilders – who were thought to use poor iron for the 3 million rivets used.
Bruce Ismay – The manager of the White Star Line Company who owned the ship. He wanted to set a world speed record for the voyage and pressured the captain into pushing full steam ahead.
Thomas Andrew – He was the ship’s architect. Under pressure to provide more room on board for luxuries, he did not stick to his original plans for 12 compartments which were watertight. The new version did not reach all the way up to the deck and so were not totally sealable. He also did not place enough lifeboats on deck, as he was pressured by Bruce Ismay.
Captain Lord- The captain of the nearest ship, who ignored distress flares and had his radio turned off that night.
Fredrick Fleet and Officer Murdoch were also called into question.
We agreed that everyone played a part in the disaster but that Captain Smith should have put safety first and not listened to Bruce Ismay about the speed. There were other factors which made the Captain to blame that night.
We then looked at the things we would change, the lessons learned from that night. Finally we looked at the laws put into place to save lives in the future.
Well done P5/6 A lots of work went into these debates.
The radio operator for telling a ship trying to warn him of icebergs to shut up QRT.
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Hmm I see what you are going with this I completely agree with him because why did he ignore the warnings on the raido <3
I think it is the caption because he decided not to slow down
But the think is that the captain was attempting to get the Transatlantic record at the time and it was his last trip he was going to do before retirement. Also he wasn’t even asleep. The deputy captain (William Merdoch) thought that even with a scratch across the side of the ship it wouldn’t sink. Willian Merdoch did try to slow down and they were going at 20 knots (the top speed was 24 knots). The material that was used in construction wasn’t the best and was cheap. Also if your wondering why they didn’t have enough lifeboats, its because there is nothing in the open ocean and the places that you are most likely to crash in is the harbours at the start and at the end, since the titanic took a couple of hours to completely sink they would have enough to time to put the titanic in a safe place before it sank.
I am really pushed on this but maybe the captain was drunk?🥂
MMMMM Yeah
The Titanic was pretty big holding more than 2,000 people so why blame it on him
People said that the Titanic was fast so maybe that’s what the captain was doing?
I think it was Rose and Jack, if they would have just stayed as strangers they could have just had normal lifes.