In the late 1800's J. Pierpont Morgan opened an international trust to build the two largest steamships of the time. These ships were called the Lusitania and the Mauretania. Soon after thinking of this in 1900, Morgan bought out a naval company called White Star for ten times its earnings. The White Star Line was formed by December 1902 (Wade 14-15). The managing director for the White Star Line was Bruce Ismay, the son of Thomas Ismay who had founded the original White Star (Lord 13). After hearing Morgan's idea for the largest steamships, Ismay met with Lord Pirrie, head of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff, for dinner in 1907 to discuss an alternative idea. They wanted sister ships that would exceed the tonnage, speed, safety, and operation of the Lusi

There were so many amenities that structural safety features simply did not fit (Lord 23). The Titanic weighed one thousand more tons than her sister the Olympic (Wade 19). There were sixteen watertight compartments connected by electric doors on the Titanic. These compartments were to be used in the event of an emergency. On the B deck, there were twenty-eight staterooms and a grand dining saloon (Lord 18-23). The Titanic was acclaimed for electricity, engineering, radio, and refrigeration. In the end, the Titanic was nine hundred feet long, which is one sixth of a mile. She weighed 46,000 tons and moved at a speed of twenty-three plus knots (Wade 16-20).

Between twelve and two in the morning, several calls for help were sent out (Foster 72). The temperature outside was about thirty two degrees (Mouronval 3). The women and children in the lifeboats simply paddled out to sea away from the Titanic and all they could do was wait for something to happen, hoping for a miracle (Foster 87). Some of the lifeboats were lowered without being filled to their capacities (Pellegrino 65).

As the launch of the Titanic drew nearer, people became very excited (Wade 22). The ship had been publicized as unsinkable, therefore increasing the vast appeal of the great ship (Pence 40). It was said by several newspapers that the Titanic was named for the builders of the ship, as they were similar to the mythological characters the Titans in their strength. The builders had built a very strong ship, but in their attempt to make the Titanic the best ship to have ever sailed, they overlooked several safety features (Lord 16-19).

There were also hearings in Washington to go deeper into the tragedy. They were held in a new wing of the Senate Office Building (Wade 160). It was soon discovered that in the testing of the lifeboats, only two actual boats had been lowered (Foster 171). By the time the first round of questioning was done, the people conducting the investigation were having so much trouble with the acoustics in the room that they moved the hearings and afterwards gave little acknowledgement to them (Lord 189).

On the Titanic, there was a distinct difference between the classes traveling on the ship. There were approximately 2240 passengers on the ship (Foster 28-29). Of these 2240 people, only 337 of them were members of the first class, therefore only occupying forty six percent of the available first class accommodations. On the second class deck, there were 271 passengers, filling up forty percent of the capacity. Almost all emigrants, the third class riders of the Titanic came to a grand total of 712 passengers (Wade 25-26). Included in the riders, there were 860 crew members (Foster 28).

The accommodations for first class riders were also very luxurious, with the Titanic often being referred to as "the last word in luxury" (Wade 19). On the B deck, there were twenty-eight staterooms, each of which was decorated with its own style from different time periods (Lord 23). Two of these staterooms cost $435

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