Building the Titanic

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

On May 31,1911, the RMS Titanic was destined to become one of the most famous in the world. The Titanic’s career was to be very short, but her sinking would result in the creation of the International Ice Patrol and demands for much more stringent safety requirements for passenger ships.  When Titanic hit the iceberg, she went down 2 hours and 40 minutes later. Most of the passengers lost were either steerage class who were only allowed on deck when nearly all boats were filled, or others who simply refused to  leave because the Titanic was, after all unsinkable.

Story goes, late evening on April 14, 1912, somewhere in the cold dark waters of the North Atlantic. the world’s largest ocean-going vessel and the pride of White Star Line, Titanic, was on a maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. She was 882 feet long and displaced 66,000 tons when loaded. Designed to withstand the flooding of any two of her compartments between bulkheads, the Titanic was flaunted as unsinkable. The sea was calm as the great ship steamed ahead at 22 knots.  When suddenly a shadow rose from the water ahead, the bow of the mighty Titanic crashed into an iceberg, tearing a 300-foot gash beneath the waterline of the starboard side. The damage immediately flooded the first six compartments between bulkheads. Over the years, they determined that, had the Titanic stopped, it would have sunk so quickly and would have allowed other ship time to get there and rescue them all. But at 2:18 a.m. April 15, 1912, after extreme confusion, commotion and hurried dispatch of distress signals, the Titanic sank to her doom in one of the world’s most epic disasters. Of the 2,224 persons (souls) on board, 711 were saved.

Well I’m not talking about building the actual Titanic, I’m talking about putting together a plastic model with my daughter. She loves the whole story about the Titanic, she knows almost every detail about it. I am surprised that she doesn’t know everyone’s name on it.

Building the Titanic piece by piece…

I would say that almost everyone has heard, read or watched something about the Titanic, but my daughter has been obsessed with the Titanic for almost 4 yrs now.  She has books, articles, pictures,music, bookmarked stories on her computer and of course the movie. I think she has watched at least 2 dozen times, maybe more, I lost count. She has made her own cardboard Titanic, Titanic out of bottles, used other boats as the Titanic, adding her dolls in the front, for Jack and Rose. She has also made some pretty awesome models out of Legos.

The Titanic Model

Now we are attempting to put together our first plastic model kit, including the paint and cement glue.  Before we got the paint, she thought she would use Sharpies to color the ship. I figured we better get all the supplies for it and do it right!

I am excited about this and the challenge to put all these tiny parts together, paint and glue. Step by step, piece by piece following the instructions to bring to completion. She’s looking forward to it being completed because she thinks she will be able to float this Titanic model in the bath tub.  I do hope it stays together so she’ll be able to do it at least once!

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Don’t let any situation in your life become like the Titanic and sink!