#rms titanic

[frankidacre]

The night was alive with a thousand voices 🎶

Little comic I did of Phillips and Bride!

#titanic #rms titanic #jack phillips #harold bride #history #historical figures #titanic fanart #retro comics #illustration #titanic officers #guglielmo marconi #ocean liners #titanic passengers #phillips wouldve been a tech bro today 100% #rip bride you wouldve loved being a computer science student

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

Credit where credit is due to James Cameron, at least he went down to the Titanic wreck in an ACTUAL submarine with an actual trained crew who spend their whole lives doing deep sea dives, the man did his research and wasn’t just throwing away $250,000 to look at a shipwreck

#titanic #rms titanic #maybe just maybe hear me out… leave the titanic alone now #would I want to go because of my special interest? perhaps but it’s more importantly the site of 1500+ people dying

[ditdotdashed]

History fans be like: "Yeah that's my scrimblo babygirl blorbo"

And the "babygirl" in question is a decaying, sad, middle aged man who's lived through the horrors of the world.

#history #history memes #amrev #glaring at the amrev and frev fandoms rn #titanic #rms titanic #frev #french revolution #american revolution #history buff #poor little meow meow

[its-rmstitanic]

A watercolour study in Procreate of 'Into the Night' by E. D. Walker for the 112ᵗʰ anniversary; time-lapses available here and here 💙

#rms titanic #art #my art #titanic #titanic anniversary #procreate #artists on tumblr #digital art #watercolour #digital painting #procreate art #e d walker #into the night #art study #maritime history #history #20th century #ships

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Call me crazy, but I for one would have thought twice before boarding the unlicensed SS DeathTrap.

#oceangate #titan #titan submarine #titanic #rms titanic #i don't believe in curses #but any ship with titan in the name is curses #submarines aren't even ships #they're boats #nautically speaking

[nataliawoods]

I am losing my mind ohmygoddddd

#titanic #titanicedit #rms titanic

[ltwilliammowett]

A Life Preserver, worn by Mabel Francatelli as she escaped from RMS Titanic and autographed by her and fellow survivors from lifeboat No.1 on 15th April 1912

#naval artifacts #life preserver #rms titanic #1912 #age of steam

[mattaytchtaylor]

RMS Carpathia (2018)

#RMS Carpathia #Edwardian Era Ocean Liners #Cunard #Cunarder #Cunarder Liner #painting #Ocean Liner #artists on tumblr #Digital painting #Edwardian Era #RMS Titanic #Titanic #My Old Work

[rms-mauretanic]

"Wow, that's a really nice picture of the Empire State Build-"

#rms olympic #ocean liners #white star line #empire state building #rms titanic #history #literally my favorite picture of all time

[vox-anglosphere]

Titanic's 1st class staterooms were the ultimate in ocean-going luxury

#RMS Titanic #White Star Line #1st class #ocean liners #1912 #maiden voyage #stateroom #luxury travel #Atlantic Ocean #UK #oak panelling #ship of dreams #watery grave #Trans-Atlantic

[lonestarbattleship]

Before the wreck of the Titanic was found on September 1, 1985, it was widely accepted the ship sank in one piece. When Robert Ballard started his search for the wreck in 1985, artist Ken Marschall painted this painting to submit to the National Geographic.

"Proposal painting of a sunken Titanic submitted to National Geographic in May 1985 in hopes that if the wreck were found that summer they might hire me to illustrate for the magazine. I was not."

Later, Ken drew several pieces of artwork of liner that was used in several publications.

Artwork by Ken Marschall: link, link, link, link, link

#RMS Titanic #Titanic #Olympic Class #Ocean Liner #Liner #passenger ship #ship #boat #September #1985 #White Star Line #White Star #wreck #wreck of Titanic #my post #artwork #painting

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

Sorry but if I was paying $250k, I’d want the full Titanic experience, including being railed in the back of a 1912 Renault Type CB Town car by a young 90s era Leonardo DiCaprio until my hand leaves a print on the window

#don’t @ me I’m right #titanic #I hope they find those people alive but also I really hope people stop doing stupid shit like this #I use humour to cope with bad situations I’m sorry #this is a bad joke I’m sorry I saw something similar on Reddit and it made me choke #90s era leonardo dicaprio was a fucking BABE #rms titanic

[rmstitanics]

𝑻𝑰𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑰𝑪 (𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕)

1500 people went into the sea when Titanic sank from under us. There were 20 boats floating nearby and only one came back. One. Six were saved from the water, myself included. Six out of 1500. Afterward, the 700 people in the boats had nothing to, but wait, wait to die, wait to live, wait for an absolution that would never come.

#rms titanic #titanicedit #james cameron titanic #titanic 1997 #rose dewitt bukater #jack dawson #kate winslet #historyedit #pscentral #* callie’s content

[rendellstreet]

April 14th, 1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. while crossing the North Atlantic Ocean.

#RMS Titanic #filmedit #titanicedit #historyedit #perioddramaedit #Rendell's Edits #My Edits #Mine

[rmsfranconia]

OTD 112 years ago:

Titanic left her home for the very last time. She was headed for New York

This photo is believed to be one of if not the last photo taken of the Titanic.

#ocean liners #ocean liner #white star line #maritime disasters #rms titanic #history #otdih

[therealvinelle]

Would Alice tried to have stopped the sinking of the titanic?

This ask fills me with such restrained joy, you have no idea. Suffice to say that last time I posted about the RMS Titanic, expecting a deluge of asks wanting to hear all about the ship, I received a single "are you autistic?" anon instead.

Good times.

That being said:

Why did the RMS Titanic sink?

A non-comprehensive, very brief overview!

This is important if we're answering the question of whether Alice Cullen, a psychic whose gift kicks in when people whose life impacts hers make decisions, could predict the Titanic sinking in time to prevent it.

To that end I will look at some of the human decisions that led to the RMS Titanic sinking.

(TLDR: the ship sank due to the wrath of God. This much bad luck, this many coincidences, and so many minor decisions and insignificant mistakes all leading up to the loss of fifteen hundred lives can only be chalked up to God smiting the ship. The RMS Titanic didn't stand a chance, Alice could not have stopped this.)

1. The hull of the RMS Olympic is designed to have multiple compartments (The RMS Olympic, for the ignorants, was the RMS Titanic's precursor and sister ship. Minor alterations were made to the RMS Titanic, such as less open space but ultimately larger size, but they were otherwise nearly identical.) The hull design was a large cause of the confidence in the Titanic. The hull had sixteen watertight cells, separated by transverse bulkheads (a bulkhead is a partition wall on a ship that prevents flooding and stiffens the hull, that it's transverse means it extends from side to side on the ship) and the idea was that up to two of these could flood without compromising the ship. The trouble was this: they weren't actually watertight. The first four cells interacted with the higher levels, where the passengers were, and safety was sacrificed for comfort. Only bulkheads D through O were actually watertight. More worryingly, for a cell to be watertight, the top has to be closed as well, forming a cube. It wasn't, and as the ship was struck across the side, along the front where the bulkheads weren't waterproof, just under the waterline, several compartments were flooded right away, dooming the ship.

(Source and image courtesy. I also used this source.)

The design choices here were the process of long and arduous process, and started with the RMS Olympic, many years before the Titanic's construction even began, but while Alice at times has incredibly vague, ahead-of-time, "we've moved to Forks... I should get Edward a sleeveless shirt", decisions, this decision in no way concerns her. Alice would not see this ahead of time, and if she did there would be very little she could do about it.

2. The wrong type of iron rivets are used for parts of the hull The iron rivets used for the bow and stern that held the hull plates together were not optimized for the freezing Atlantic temperatures, causing them to snap when they were put under strain. The iceberg happened to strike the bow.

The iceberg may have opened a tear in the ship's hull, but the hull plates falling off as a result was the result of choice of material (the same as was made with the RMS Olympic and the RMS Olympic was fine! She survived several crashes without any plates falling off! Keyword being, as I understand, her crashes were not in sub-freezing Atlantic temperatures) and another that neither humans nor Alice would have seen coming.

Just really, incredibly, bad luck.

3. The man who had the key to the cupboard hold the ship's binoculars that the scouts in the crow's nest would use to spot icebergs, was on leave and the guy replacing him didn't get the keys before the RMS Titanic left port

What I just said on the headline.

Several small human decisions happening here, none of which Alice would see because none of them lead directly to the ship sinking. They would not have an actual impact until the iceberg spotters are sent out to scout for icebergs, at which point they realize they're spending their night playing a game of "is that an optical illusion or an iceberg?"

Even at that point, Alice isn't going to see anything because the scouts did spot the iceberg, the problem was the timing of when they spotted it. Had they had binoculars the timing would have been different and the ship would not have sunk, but even without them the ship might not have sunk.

4. The ship is warned about an iceberg: the captain doesn't get the memo

Icebergs were a known danger in the area at this time of year, and ships would warn one another about particularly hazardous ones. 1912 happened to be a year of unusually many icebergs, leading to (and don't quote me on this part because I'm going off memory) the captain taking a different route, hoping to evade them. Sadly, the fateful iceberg had also gone off route, where it was spotted by the SS Mesaba. The SS Mesaba warned the RMS Titanic, but Jack Philips (a hero who alongside his colleague is to thank for there being any survivors at all that night) made a typing error, changing the telegram tag from "MSG" to "MXG". "MSG" would have made the telegram urgent and seen it delivered straight to the navigation officer, "MXG" saw it discarded. (source (I also used this source for double checking other things in this post))

This isn't a decision, it was a mistake: Alice would not see this.

5. The iceberg is spotted and the scouts sound the alarm

Bad decision: the RMS Titanic was headed straight towards the iceberg and built to withstand collisions. Had it crashed bow first, only the first hull would have flooded (as RMS Olympic had proven was indeed survivable) and the ship would in every likelihood have been perfectly fine, if in need of repairs.

By reporting the iceberg, however, and only moments before impact, the scouts triggered the next bullet point.

(And no, Alice isn't seeing them either, because it's not the scouts' decision that sinks the ship. Remember, she sees only direct outcomes. The scouts' decision leads to other people trying to make the right decision in time, and she can't see what that decision will be, nor what its outcome will be, until that decision has been made.)

6. First Officer Murdoch gives the order to redirect the ship's course

Rather than crash directly into the iceberg, First Officer Murdoch hoped to avoid the iceberg altogether. He is widely believed to have ordered the ship to move "Hard a-starboard", and the ship pivoted at exactly the wrong time. The ship is struck along the side, opening multiple compartments along the front and dooming the ship.

(Source and image credit)

That decision Alice would have seen had she been aboard, but things happened so quickly I don't think there's anything she could have done by that point.

Alice does not prevent anything and at best gets to save a few people by retrieving collapsible A, a lifeboat which floated off the deck shortly before the ship sank, and help with collapsible B, which floated upside down and had survivors clinging to its hull(x).

Special source credit to this documentary.

Those interested should also check out this very short youtube animation of the ship's sinking, just ignore James Cameron's "badabing badabom" and you're good. If you're a real one, this real time rendition of the ship sinking is really good, impeccable research and to my recollection not sensationalist the way a lot of these real time sinking of a given ship tend to be (and I know that's an incredibly damning sentence).

Also: I can't stress enough this list of reasons why the RMS Titanic sank is non-exhaustive! It is however the ones coming to mind now and that are various levels of man-made and therefore possible, in theory, for Alice's gift to pick up on.

#rms titanic #twilight #twilight renaissance #alice cullen #long post