World Maritime Day 2012 IMO: One hundred years after the Titanic The World Maritime Day theme for 2012 is “IMO: One hundred years after the Titanic”, which will focus on the
Organization’s roots and raison d’être, i.e. safety of life at sea. One of the consequences of the sinking, in 1912, of the Titanic, in which more than 1,500 people lost their lives, was the adoption, two years later, of the first International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (the SOLAS Convention). The 1914 version of the Convention was gradually superseded, respectively, by SOLAS 1929, SOLAS 1948, SOLAS 1960 (the first adopted under the auspices of IMO, then known as IMCO) and SOLAS 1974. SOLAS 1974 is still in force today, amended and updated many times.
This year’s World Maritime Day theme will provide an opportunity to take stock of the developments in maritime safety since that disaster and to examine which areas of ship safety should be given priority in the years to come
RMS Titanic
On 10th April 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton for New York with 2.223 people on board. The Olympic–class Royal Mail Ship, was the largest passenger steamship in the world, Titanic was owned by White Star Line, she was built at the Harland and Wolff yard in Belfast, Ireland and launched on 31st May 1911.
The vessel was triple screw with the two outer propellers driven by 4 cylinder steam reciprocating engines while the centre screw was driven by a low pressure turbine driven by exhaust steam from the two reciprocating engines, total power was about 55,000 horsepower.
The ‘up-and-downers’ were triple expansion, direct acting, four cylinder; one HP cylinder, one IP cylinder and 2 LP cylinders. HP steam entered the HP cyclinder at 215psi, IP pressure was 78psi and by the time it got to the LP cyclinders the steam was down to 24psi. After leaving the LP cylinders the steam now at 9 psi absolute, was fed to the LP turbine driving the centre shaft. One problem with the LP turbine
Engineering manning RMS Titanic
To provide the steam the vessel had 29 boilers, 24 of which were double ended and 5 single ended, there were 159 furnaces in all. To propel the vessel at 22 knots it needed around 600 tons of coal a day. Virtually everything was steam powered; the generators, the refrigeration plant, the steering gear, the winches were all powered by steam.
Above, one of the outer main reciprocating engines. Below, workers leaving the Harland &
Wolff yard, Titanic can be seen in the background
is that it could not be reversed so when the vessel needed to go astern only the reciprocating engines could be used.
Fou r d a y s
after leaving Southampton on her maiden voyage the Titanic struck an iceberg, she sank the next day with loss of 1,517 souls
Phil Olsen
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Deck engineer
two other undesignated engineers
160 Fireman / Stokers 72 Trimmers 35 Greasers
Chief electrician 4 electricians
Assistant electrician Boilermaker
Junior boilermaker On Watch March 2012 page 27
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