April 10th, 1914, the ship of dreams set sail from the port of Southampton bound for New York City. 883 feet long, 92.5 feet wide, nearly 25 stories in height, and weighing an incredible 46,000 tons, her shere size was enough to impress the crowds of people holding tickets for her passage. Titanic was making headlines before her construction had even begun. She was to be the largest ocean liner of the time. From before he construction to years after she had reached the ocean floor Titanic made headlines in unexpected ways. On the night of April 12th, 1914 her, her crewmen, and her passengers had no idea the fate that lay before them. As she struck the iceberg and started her descent to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean several factors went into the survival of the passengers on board. It is human…show more content… Many more lives may have been saved if it wasn't for the ill preparation of the crewmen. Even simply having one practice drill before the departure from Southampton would have the dissator nothing more than an accident. Construction of the Titanic began on March 31, 1909 when president and designer Thomas Andrews laid the first keel plate in the Harland & Wolff Shipyards of Belfast, Ireland. Titanic's sister ship The Olympic had begun construction three months earlier and the two ships were constructed side by side. Titanic was planned to be such a large ship that at the time of her design there wasn't a shipyard in existence that could hold construction of such a large ship. The Harland and Wolff Shipyards took on the construction of the sister ships. In order for the company to accommodate the size of the two ships, Harland and Wolff was required to demolish, and reconstruct three of their smaller gantries, and in their place construct two large gantries to lodge the construction of the Olympic and Titanic. A gantry is a crane system that manoeuvres over the top
