C Deck, also known as the "Shelter Deck".

The deck on this level is from front to back for windlass, dining room for crew and pyrotechnics, 3rd class staircase, well deck (including foremast, electric crane), 1st class and forward and backward grand staircase, 2nd class reading room, 2nd class staircase, well deck used as 3rd class terrace, 3rd class smoking room and common rooms, and finally the steering gear.

The D Deck, also known as the "Saloon Deck", consists of several large cabins. The bow is followed by the pyrotechnic cabin, the open space for third-class passengers, the first-class suite, the front grand staircase, the first-class reception room, the first-class dining room, the galley shared by the first-class and second-class cabins, the second-class dining room, and the stern is the second-class cabin.

The E Deck, also known as the "Upper Deck", is a resting area for the crew, coal workers and waiters at the front, with engines passing through the middle and rear parts of this deck, and second-class cabins in the stern. This is the end of the front grand staircase.

The F Deck, also known as the "Middle Deck", is occupied by boilers in the front and rear of the deck, with drying rooms on the left and rear sides of Boiler 5 and the famous swimming pool on the right, and a hammam and a third-class dining room, galley and third-class cabins further down.

The G Deck, also known as the "Loer Deck", is the last deck above the waterline and the last deck to carry passengers, with the amidships occupied entirely by boilers and turbine systems, the front of the deck is still the staff cabin, then the squash court, and the rear is adjacent to the engine room is the food cold storage, and finally the third class cabin.

The lower deck (Orlop Deck) is used for boilers, the rest of the space is mostly used for storage, and it is worth mentioning that there is also a garage in the bow for those expensive motor vehicles that have crossed the sea.

Tank Top, the very bottom of the ship, located entirely below the waterline, is used to install the turbine, boiler, coal, and transmission system.

Ye Chao felt that the Titanic was really a pity.

Let's talk about how it was built:

On March 31, 1909, the Titanic began construction at the Hanand Wolf shipyard in Belfast, the largest city in Northern Ireland.

The hull was launched on May 31, 1911. The entire project was completed on March 31 of the following year.

The Titanic was designed by illiam Pirrie, director of the Haaland and Wolf shipyard, Thomas Andres, chief designer (Thomas Andrew, as some call him), and Alexander Carlisle, general manager.

Bruce Ismay, Managing Director of White Star Shipping, provided a lot of input during the design process.

But in order to make the top deck of the Titanic more spacious, he reduced the number of lifeboats of the Titanic from the original 48 to 16, and in addition, in order to make the first class of the Titanic more luxurious, he lowered the height of the water baffle in the middle of the hull after learning that the giant ship could withstand 4 bilges filled with seawater without sinking.

The Titanic was financed by J. Junius Pierpont Morgan. P. Morgan) and his International Mercantile Marine Co.

At that time, it was the largest and most prestigious manned mail ship. She contained more space resulting in a larger total tonnage (1,600 tons more than her sister ship, the Olympic). Only three of the four gigantic chimneys are actually used to exhaust soot.

The rest is a foil, and the actual use is to serve as a chimney and ventilation for the main kitchen. There are 891 crew members on board and can carry more than 2,200 passengers.

At that time, the luxury and sophistication of the Titanic were unprecedented.

There is an indoor swimming pool, gym, Turkish bath, library, elevator and squash court on board.

The first class's common room is decorated with fine wood panelling, furnished with premium furnishings and a variety of other premium décor, and goes to great lengths to provide a level of service never seen before.

The sun-drenched Café de Paris offers a variety of premium refreshments for first-class passengers.

The living environment and lounges of the Titanic's second-class and even third-class cabins were equally high-end, and could even be compared with the first-class cabins of many passenger ships at that time.

Three elevators are dedicated to first-class passengers, and as an innovation, second-class passengers also have one elevator, although third-class passengers still have to climb stairs.

Biggs, the baker of the Titanic, recalled: "...... There will never be a ship like hers again. I used to fly on the Olympic, the Majestic, the Queen Elizabeth...... worked on it. None of them are as good as the Titanic. …… Yes, just like the Olympic, but much more luxurious.

For example, in a large dining room, the carpet of the Titanic is so thick that it can reach your knees, and then there is the furniture, which is so heavy that you can't lift it. And those wainscoting...... They could have built a bigger, faster ship, but the Titanic put all its strength into building a luxurious and comfortable space. She is truly an amazing ship!

What Biggs is saying is a common perception.

Titanic tempted all who built and designed her.

This kind of temptation is so great that she has become more and more popular after many years.

In the words of Shipbuilding Expert magazine, the Titanic "imitated the Palace of Versailles in many details...... The lounge, decorated with Louis XV-style furniture, resembles the salon of the Petite Trianon in France, and the engraving on the fireplace is "The Goddess of the Hunt at Versailles".

There are other beautiful reliefs and works of art...... Fine teak and brass decorations, chandeliers and frescoes, Indian and Persian carpets".

Even the third-class cabin has a marble sink and bedside heating. The Titanic was incomparably luxurious at the time. Although she is not the first ship to offer a deck pool, gym, bathroom, and elevator (i.e., elevator), she goes out of her way to provide a level of service that has never been seen before.

The most extravagant feature of the ship is the grand staircase of the first class, located between the first and second chimneys. The grand staircase, with its oak panelling and gilded balustrades, extends to the E deck, surmounted by a glass dome supported by wrought iron brackets, allowing natural light to flood the grand staircase.

The wall at the top of the staircase is inlaid with a bell flanked by allegorical figures carved with symbols of nobility and honor.

Between the third and fourth chimneys there is also a relatively plain similar staircase. James Cameron faithfully recreated this staircase in his movie Titanic.

Although the Olympic and Titanic are sister ships, some details are different.

After observing the first voyage of the Olympic Movement, it was found that the passengers on deck A were drenched in mist, and the promenade that ran through deck B was not well utilized.

Both of these flaws were improved on the Titanic, where part of the B deck was converted into a private private balcony for the first-class luxury suite.

Titanic is considered a fixed-point work of technical achievement. The Titanic is more about safety.

The two-level bottom is divided into 16 watertight compartments by 15 watertight partition walls with automatic watertight doors, spanning the entire ship. 16 watertight compartments prevent her from sinking.

Curiously, these watertight compartments do not extend very high. The first two watertight partition walls and the last five were built only to Deck D. The eight walls in the middle are only located on the lower E deck.

Despite this, she is still able to travel if any two of the compartments are filled with water, and even four compartments are filled with water and can remain afloat.

People couldn't have imagined anything worse, so The Shipbuilder magazine at the time thought it was "impossible to sink."

During the voyage, a crew member said to a second-class female passenger, Sylvia Caldwell, "Even if God himself comes, he will not sink this ship." ”

The Titanic used coal as fuel to produce steam to propel the steam engine to work, and there were 24 double-ended boilers (9 meters high) and 5 single-ended boilers on board, which were powered by 159 coal furnaces and devoured 660 tons of coal per day.

They provide a steady stream of steam for the Titanic to maintain strong power 24 hours a day, and the power system consists of 3 sets of main engines, of which 2 sets are reciprocating four-cylinder three-expansion inverted cylinder steam engines (reversible), and the other 1 is a low-pressure steam turbine (non-reversible).

The main engine power is more than 59,000 horsepower, so the Titanic can reach a maximum speed of 23 knots.

The Titanic is a product of the peak of mankind's beautiful dreams, reflecting the strong self-confidence of mankind to master the world.

Its sinking showed humanity the mysterious power of nature and the unpredictability of fate. By the day the Titanic sank, people in the Western world had enjoyed 100 years of stability and peace.

Science and technology are progressing steadily, industry is developing rapidly, and people are full of confidence in the future. The sinking of the Titanic woke up all this. This "unsinkable ship", the largest artificial steel structure after the Eiffel Tower, the great achievement of the industrial age, sank on its maiden voyage because it was indifferent to the power of nature.

The Titanic will forever remind people of the price paid for humanity's arrogance and self-confidence.

People will never forget this picture: the Titanic with her head held high at the bottom of the sea, and the damage and smudges could not hide her nobility.

That's where she ends.

History has become a legend.

Due to the chaos of the scene after the disaster, coupled with the improper management of documents and the mixed accounts of later generations, the statistics of the Titanic's passengers and victims have always been doubtful.

At present, it is generally believed that the number of victims may be between 1490-1635, and the most credible data is released by the British Trade Commission: at the time of the disaster, the Titanic carried a total of 2224 people, of which 710 survived and 1514 unfortunately died.

At the time of the incident, there were about 1,317 passengers on the Titanic, a total of 498 people survived, about 885 male crew members, a total of 192 people survived, and 23 female crew members, a total of 20 people survived.

The last survivor of the Titanic, Eliza Gladys from the United Kingdom? Eliza Gladys "Millvina" Dean was the youngest passenger on board at the time, only nine weeks old.

Ms. Dean passed away on May 31, 2009, at the age of 97.

There was also a special survivor on the Titanic - Ms. Violet Constance Jessop, who was working as a waiter on the Olympic when it collided with the British Royal Navy destroyer Hawke on September 20, 1911.

On April 10, 1912, Ms. Jessop transferred to the Titanic and survived a catastrophic accident four days later: she boarded Lifeboat No. 16 with a child separated from her mother, and was later found and rescued by the Carpathia.

After the outbreak of the First World War, Ms. Jessop entered the British Red Cross and became a nurse, and she happened to be on board the ship when the Britannia sank on November 21, 1916.

In the accident, she and other passengers boarded the lifeboat in time, but they were almost swept into the propeller, and as a last resort, Ms. Jessop jumped into the water to escape, and suffered serious head injuries, but she survived tenaciously.

This series of coincidences made her the only person to have boarded three Olympic-class cruise ships and experienced three accidents, earning her the nickname "Unsinkable Miss" afterwards.

Ms. Jessop died of illness on 5 May 1971.

Someone after the fact, analyzed the cause of the accident.

After the wreckage of the Titanic reappeared, the scientific expedition team collected metal samples for analysis

The wreck of the stern, as a result, revealed important details that led to the sinking of the "Titanic": shipbuilding engineers only thought about increasing the strength of the steel, and did not think about increasing its toughness.

A comparative test of the metal fragments of the wreckage with today's shipbuilding steel shows that in the water temperature of the sinking site of the "Titanic", today's shipbuilding steel can be bent into a V-shape when impacted, while the steel on the wreck breaks quickly due to insufficient toughness.

The cold brittleness of steel is discovered, that is, at a temperature of -40 °C ~ 0 °C, the mechanical behavior of steel changes from toughness to brittleness, resulting in catastrophic brittle fracture.

And the steel made with modern technology will become brittle only at a temperature of -70 °C ~ -60 °C.

However, the engineers at that time could not be blamed, because no one knew at that time that adding a large amount of sulfide to the steelmaking raw material in order to increase the strength of the steel would greatly increase the brittleness of the steel, so that the tragedy of the sinking of the "Titanic" was caused.

A team of forensic experts from the sea analyzed the rivets on the hull of the salvaged "Titanic" and found that the rivets that held the steel plates of the hull contained an unusually large amount of glass-like slag, making the rivets very fragile and prone to breakage.

This analysis shows that under the impact of the iceberg, it may be that the rivet broke and caused the hull to disintegrate, and finally buried the "Titanic" at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

According to new research by British historian Tim Mardin, an unusual optical phenomenon, the mirage, was what caused the Titanic to crash into an iceberg and fail to be rescued by nearby ships.

In 1992, a British government investigation suggested that the sinking of the Titanic might be related to hyperrefraction, but this possibility remained unexplored until Mardin delved into weather records, survivor testimonies, and long-forgotten logbooks.

Mardin found that on the night of the incident, the atmospheric conditions in the area where the incident occurred were prone to superrefraction, and the light was abnormally bent, thus forming a mirage, a phenomenon that was also recorded by several ships in the nearby sea at the time.

Mardin said that the mirage prevented the lookout on the Titanic from discovering the iceberg in time, and also made the freighter California, unable to identify the Titanic and communicate with the ocean liner.

There is also a theory that the influence of the mysterious mummy caused the sinking of the Titanic.

There was a famous professor of Egyptian history named Douglas Murray, who lived in Cairo. One day, when contacted by an American adventurer, the American gave him something unusual, something enough to shock him.

An elaborate ancient Egyptian mummy casket containing a mummy of an Egyptian queen.

The mummies are over 3,000 years old, but they are well preserved – the cabinets are painted with a brilliant golden pattern. Murray was excited about the mummies and happy with the price. He immediately gave the American a check.

An unconvertible check because the American died that night.

Because of his death, Murray arranged for the treasure to be sent back to England.

However, it wasn't long before he learned more about the delicate mummified coffin: a warning message found on the tomb wall said that dire consequences would happen to anyone who broke into the tomb.

It wasn't until years later that Murray believed these warnings, and the gun he was holding exploded, causing his arm to be shattered and eventually amputated.

After the accident, Murray decided to return home, and on the way home, two of his companions died mysteriously, as did the two servants who were responsible for guarding the mummies, and Murray, who was full of fear at the time, decided to dispose of the cursed mummy coffin as soon as he returned to London.

One day, a man he knew named Janet Jones said he wanted the mummy, so he gave it to her.

Soon after, Jones' mother died, and she herself fell ill with a strange illness. She wanted to return the mummy to Murray, but Murray naturally refused.

At the end, the mummy is on display in the British Museum. Even in the museum, the mummy apparently continues to cause a lot of strange events. At the time of the new exhibition, a museum photographer died shortly after taking a photograph, while an administrator died of unknown causes.

Finally, the British Museum also intends to dispose of the mummies.

They sold the mummy to a collector in New York.

At the beginning of April 1912, the transfer plan of the mummy was arranged, and the mummy began to embark on a journey to his new home. But New York never received a mummy or a coffin. Because at the time of the sinking of the Titanic, there was one item in the ship's sturdy cabin, which was the mummy coffin.

There is also a conspiracy theory......

In a recent interview with British television, British researchers Robin Gardino and Andrew Newton revealed an earth-shattering conspiracy theory about the sinking of the "Titanic": The 1,523 passengers and crew members killed in the sinking of the "Titanic" did not die of a "natural disaster," but were the unfortunate victims of a catastrophic mistake in a "conspiracy to defraud the ship's insurance."

Gardino and Newton said that after years of research, they found a lot of evidence to prove that it was not the "Titanic" that sank in the Atlantic, but another sister ship of the White Star Steamship Company with a similar appearance, the "Olympic"!

The reason why the White Star Steamship Company "stole the beams and changed the pillars" of the two ships was to defraud the insurance company and defraud the company of huge insurance premiums to help the company tide over the economic difficulties.