The maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic will always be a day marked in history as a night to remember. Why did the Titanic fail to reach New York Harbor after its voyage across the Atlantic Ocean? The Titanic was designed to carry passengers from England, France and Ireland to North America (Gunner). What happened that night the Titanic sank to its cold, watery grave at the bottom of the North Atlantic? Maybe it was the design of the ship or perhaps it was the poor construction materials, naivety and human error; or simply a combination of all these things? The sinking of the Titanic was a combination of all these things, but above all human naivety and error in the belief that the ship was unsinkable. The Titanic was built by White Star Lines under the direction of J. Bruce Ismay. He had the Titanic built by Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff along with two other ships. Shipbuilders worked nine hours a day, six days a week until the construction of the Titanic was completed. On 10 April 1912 the RMS Titanic began her maiden voyage (Gunner). The enormous vessel was approximately 880 feet long, ninety feet wide, weighed approximately 52,300 tons, and had 4.6 million cubic feet of space (Gunner). The Titanic was supposed to be watertight and, for safety reasons, had sixteen watertight compartments separated by automatic or crew-controllable doors. She had twenty-nine boilers with 159 furnaces and a maximum speed of twenty-four knots. The ship was built with two layers of steel to provide greater strength, this was called a double bottom hull. (Levinson 144).The Titanic left port to begin its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. It departed Southampton, England, and was due to arrive on April 17, 1...... half of document..... .en out loud, and the fact that they had never had lifeboat drills, so were unsure of the weight capacity. All these things mixed together contributed to a great catastrophe that will go down in history as "the night to remember". Works Cited Deitz, Dan. "How Did the Titanic Sank?" Mechanical Engineering. April 2012: 36-39. Print.Greeley, Joseph. “Saving the Titanic: Could Damage Control have Prevented the Sinking?”2-9. Print.Gunner, Michael. “The Sinking of the RMS Titanic: A Critical and Ethical Study.” University of Sussex. November 2007. Web.Haydon, John. “20 Facts About the Titanic.” The Washington Times. April 9, 1012. Web.Levinson, Martin. “A General Semantic Analysis of the RMS Titanic Disaster.” ETC: AReview of General Semantics 69:2 April 2012: 143-155. Press. “The sinking of the Titanic: it was more than just human folly.” Phys.org. April 11, 2012. Web.