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why was titanic called unsinkable?
The Titanic was a grand and luxurious, British passenger ocean liner, owned and operated by White Star Line. It was 882½ feet long. It was the largest ship built in its time. Thomas Andrews, the head of Harland & Wolff design department, designed the Titanic. From 1908-1909, over 15,000 Irish shipyard workers built the ship. Each worker was paid about $10 a week. The Titanic was known as the “unsinkable ship”. The Titanic was called “unsinkable” because the ship had a double bottom. The hull was divided up into 16 watertight compartments. The ship was built to stay afloat even if two of the middle compartments, or four of the front compartments flooded. So, the ship was considered “unsinkable”.


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