Volume 9, Prosperity Volume, Chapter 67, On the Titanic
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The Titanic set off for New World. The dock was crowded with passengers, families coming to see off, luggage porters and customs inspectors. At 11 a.m., the smoke of No. 1 spewed out white steam. 25 of the 29 boilers began to set fires one after another. At 12 noon, the Titanic slowly left the dock under the pull of the tugboat. Two outer propellers began to stir the sea water of the Southampton Port.
The Titanic sailed past the Majestic, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Ocean and New York mail ships anchored in the harbor in turn, honking their whistle. The +6,000 large ship seemed to be very attractive to other ships. Under the suction force of the water flow, the hull of the New York mail ship began to move closer to the Titanic, and fortunately the anchor chain and cable grabbed it in time. The Titanic tugboat Vulgan pushed the New York hull back. The world's largest mail ship began its first voyage.
At the beginning of the 20th century, stimulated by China's "Long Live the Emperor" luxury cruise ship, a cruise ship that could promote national prestige was planned. The British White Star accepted this difficult task and built a huge luxury passenger ship. It must be the largest luxury passenger ship in the world at that time.
On 331, 1909, the Titanic began to be built in Hanand, Belfast, the largest city in Northern Ireland; Wolf Shipyard. The hull was launched on 531, 1912. She was also the second Olympic-class mail ship built by White Shipyard (White built in the same shipyard). It was the largest and most prestigious manned mail ship at that time.
The Titanic is 260 long and 28 wide. It has a tonnage of 46,329 tons (net weight 21,831 tons), and its displacement reaches an unprecedented 66,000! Although it contains more space, resulting in a larger total tonnage (1,600 tons more than the Olympics). Her hull is exactly as big as her sister ship Olin:K.
There are 899 crew members on the ship. They can carry 3,300 passengers. Because she also transports mail, it is also called the Royal Mail Steamboat Titanic. There are only 3 of the 4 smokes that are really working. The remaining one is a foil, and the only practical purpose is to serve as the main kitchen floor smoke. The power system has three sets of hosts: two of which are four-cylinder reciprocating steam engines and one set of steam turbines. The main engine power reaches 50,000 force and a speed of 23~
This task was not achieved. In terms of diesel engine technology, the British were inferior to China, which created a difference in success rate, so they could not support a larger hull. In order to make up for this defect, the White Star Company made remedies in other aspects. The Titanic was called a "dream passenger ship" because of its luxurious decoration.
From the appearance, even if it is not as huge as the "Long Live the Emperor", the "Titanic" is still worthy of the British's pride. The "Titanic" costs a total of 75 million pounds, twice that of the "Long Live the Emperor", 46,328 tons. It is 882.9 feet long and 92.5 feet wide. It has 175 feet from the keel to the top of the four big smoke, and is equivalent to 11 floors in height. It was a first-class super luxury giant ship at that time.
In terms of luxury, even the most luxurious kings had never seen such a palace, and the richest financiers had never imagined this dreamy giant ship. Biggs, the baker of the Titanic, recalled: "...there will be no more ships like her. I have worked on the Olympics, the solemn, the Queen Elizabeth.... They are not as good as the Titanic......
Not bad, just like the Olympics, but much more luxurious. For example, the large restaurant. The Olympics don't even have a carpet. The Titanic floor carpet is so thick that it can't be over the knees... and the furniture is so heavy that you can't lift it. And those wall panels... They can build a larger and faster ship, but the Titanic puts all its strength on building a luxurious and comfortable space... She is indeed an amazing ship..."
What Biggs said was a common view. The Titanic tempted everyone who built and designed her. The great temptation made her more and more popular after many years. In the words of the Shipbuilder magazine, the Titanic "imitated the Palace of Versailles in many details...a lounge filled with Louis XV style furniture, similar to the French Salon of the Little Trianon Palace. The fireplace carvings were "The Goddess of the Hunting of Versailles". There were other exquisite reliefs and works of art...a fine wood and brass decoration, chandeliers and frescoes, and carpets from India and Persian".
Even the third class cabin has marble sinks and bedside heating. The Titanic was unparalleled luxury at the time. Although she wasn't the first to offer a deck pool, gym, bathroom and elevator
She went out of her way to provide a level of service that she had never seen before. She offered 3 lifts; as an innovation, she provided a lift to passengers in second class. Economy class passengers still had to climb stairs.
Of course, the stairs are also luxurious. In this simple place, White Star Company still does its best, with milky white marble and golden edges, everything is like a dream.
Chinese agent James didn't understand why he was sent to this ship, and the mission was very simple, so he organized the ship to be sunk by an iceberg. However, after studying the structural diagram of the Titanic, James believed that the guy who sent him was a bastard.
Titanic is considered a fixed work of technical achievements. What Titanic talks about is safety. The two-story bottom of the ship is divided into 16 watertight compartments by 15 watertight compartments with automatic watertight gates, spanning the entire ship. 16 watertight (no water inlet) compartments prevent her from sinking. Strangely, these watertight compartments did not extend very high. The first two watertight compartments and the last five were only built on the D deck. The eight walls in the middle were only set to the lower level.
Even so, any two of the compartments were filled with water, and she could still drive, and even four compartments were filled with water, and she could still remain floating. People at that time could no longer imagine worse situations, so they called the Titanic a "never sinking ship." "Even if God came in person, he would not sink the ship."
James held a book in his hand, which was in 1898. A novel called "Futility". The novel tells about a luxurious ship that never sank, called the Titan, which sailed from Britain to the United States on the other side of the ocean. This is an unprecedentedly huge and most luxurious passenger ship in the history of human navigation. The ship is equipped with all the luxurious facilities within its ability at that time. The ship is loaded with rich passengers, and people enjoy it on this ship. However, the giant ship hit an iceberg on its way out for the first time and sank tragically, and many passengers were buried under the sea.
When James looked at this book, he not only admired the author's imagination, but this story written fourteen years ago actually had a wonderful connection with today. However, James did not believe that the luxury liner "Titanic" sank due to crashing into an iceberg.
In this novel, it is found that in addition to the almost identical names of the ships, the two have many extremely similarities: both ships sail in April, and the routes are from the UK to the United States.
The number of passengers and crew members written by the Titan is 3,000, while the number of passengers and crew members of the Titan is nearly 3,000.
The Titan is envisioned to weigh 70,000 tons, while the Titanic is actually weighing 6 tons.
Titan is 800 feet long, and Titanic is slightly longer than
The number of spirals in both ships is three.
Another thing is that the lifeboats on both ships are not enough.
All of this is incredible!
However, if you let yourself take a vacation on this giant ship because of this book, you may only be crazy to describe such a boss. However, James is still very happy in the face of such a thing. As a first-class guest, he deals with beautiful women every day and lives a romantic and happy life. James hopes that this trip will not have an end!
In order to cross the Atlantic Ocean as fast as possible, the Titanic chose a shorter northern route. The temperature continued to drop. But the weather was very clear. According to Ismail's order, the Titanic accelerated its speed to 25 knots the next day. Although it believed that Canard only wanted a quick strategy to reduce the company's image, the White Star Company also wanted to get Blue Piao to show off. Along the way, nothing big happened to the Titanic. The telegrapher Philip, on the ship, was busy sending expensive private telegrams for first-class passengers, mostly for safe nonsense and orders for stock trading and delivery.
But soon, the Titanic encountered a big trouble. They encountered the Japanese frigate. They had a very arrogant request. Because of the safety of navigation, they needed to escort the Titanic. Just kidding, the Titanic was ten knots faster than the old Japanese fleet and did not need the escort of the Japanese fleet at all.
However, the Japanese fleet was very stubborn and even issued war intimidation. This was something that the arrogant British could not bear. The Titanic immediately accelerated to leave the Japanese fleet, and the Japanese fleet did not dare to fire and watched the Titanic leave. This episode became a joke for the crew on the ship, and it was quickly transmitted to London by telegram.
However, for some reason, this telegram was wrongly explained, "The Japanese warship intercepted our ship, broke through the obstacles of force, deviated from the course 3, and was adjusting." This telegram caused uneasiness among the British.
Chapter completed!