191April 12 is a tragic day-on this day, the British luxury passenger ship Titanic unfortunately sank on its maiden voyage to North America. This shipwreck caused 1523 people to die in the belly of fish, which was the biggest disaster in the history of human navigation and shocked the world. For many years, the real cause of the sinking of Titanic has been the focus of people's exploration.
Designed by British White Star Shipping Company and built at Harlan and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast, Ireland, Titanic is the second giant luxury passenger ship of Olympic class cruise ship, which is known as the "miracle in the world industrial history". In April 2002, it carried passengers 19 14, 8965438+. Titanic was called "the largest unsinkable ship in the world" at that time.
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Titanic collided with an iceberg. The iceberg hit the hull, causing the rivet of the hull to be damaged. At first, considering that the material of rivet is brittle, slag was added in the process of rivet manufacturing, but the slag was too dense, which made the rivet fragile and unable to withstand the impact. After the nail broke, seawater flooded into the watertight compartment, but at that time, the maximum bearing limit of the Titanic watertight compartment was 4, and the intake part was 5, which exceeded the bearing limit. At that time, some passengers and crew on board thought that they had encountered a big wave, some thought that they had hit the rocks, and some thought that the propeller had failed. But the passengers in the cabin below felt much stronger vibration. Some passengers saw milky white icebergs passing by outside the porthole. Some scraped ice fell into the cabin. The immigrant passengers on the first deck found that the sea water was overflowing the hatch. The ship stopped soon. After checking all watertight compartments, chief designer Andrews told Captain Smith that the ship was hopeless.
Cause of sinking:
1. The captain was drunk and made a mistake.
Shortly after the sinking of the Titanic, two government investigation teams concluded that there was nothing wrong with the hull itself, mainly due to the improper command of the captain edward smith. But recently, the British "Sun" said that an unexposed letter showed that Smith might have been drunk when the cruise ship hit an iceberg.
The newspaper revealed that emily rickards, a survivor of the Titanic and a British second-class passenger, wrote a letter to her family on the lifeboat two days after the shipwreck, saying that "Captain Smith has been drinking in the social room and handed over the helmsman to his men. All this is the captain's fault. As far as we know, poor Smith ... has unfortunately drowned. " Her letter confirmed some records in history books: 62-year-old Smith attended a first-class dinner a few hours before the Titanic hit an iceberg, and then returned to his sleeping cabin. He was awakened before midnight, directed the passengers to evacuate and escape, and finally made a heroic decision to sink into the sea with the ship.
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Phantom makes iceberg "invisible"
1912 On April 10, the Titanic made its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, and planned to sail for new york, USA. However, in the middle of the night in April of 14, this "world's largest unsinkable ship" unfortunately hit an iceberg floating in the North Atlantic and sank. Of the 2208 passengers on board, only 705 survived. Become one of the biggest shipwrecks in human history.
The British "Daily Mail" recently reported that the British historian Tim Martin said that the fatal collision between the Titanic and the iceberg was caused by the weather conditions at that time, and it was too late for the crew to turn the bow when they found the huge iceberg.
Martin carefully studied the weather map of 100 years ago, and he also read the logbooks of other ships sailing in the North Atlantic when the Titanic sank. He found that at the time and place where Titanic passed, the arctic frozen seawater surrounded by Labrador cold current met with the warm current brought by the Gulf Stream, which led to the abnormal refraction of sea light. This refraction made the iceberg on the horizon completely invisible and became the ultimate killer of Titanic. Martin said that under normal weather conditions, the lookout on board should be able to see the iceberg.
After years of research on the sinking of Titanic, Martin once wrote 10 1 things that you thought you knew about Titanic, but you didn't! "A book. He said that the logbooks of several German and British ships recorded a sharp drop in the temperature of the sea near the shipwreck, which proved that the weather conditions at that time could create an illusion and make the iceberg "disappear".
Martin's "illusion theory" not only saved the lookout from the crime of missing the search, but also explained why the cruise ship "California" not far from the Titanic did not lend a helping hand, because the illusion made the crew of "California" mistakenly think that the ship calling for help was not the Titanic. Stanley Lord, the captain of the California, once said that he did see a ship that night, but judging from the size of the ship, he never believed it was Titanic. People always think that he is making excuses to avoid bankruptcy, but now Martin says, "I know what he said is true."
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