The Titanic Gone, but Never Forgotten
Titanic has intrigued the whole world since she sank taking more than 1,500 lives in April of 1912. Titanic was known as “The Ship of Dreams” until she shattered millions of hearts with her catastrophic event. The monumental aspect of the Titanic and her tragedy that came from it allowed an extraordinary movie, which gave the audience that perspective and exposure to such an historical event.
The Titanic was considered to be the largest, safest, and most luxurious ship ever built. The Titanic departed from Southampton, England in hopes of arriving in New York City. It all started with a man named Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, he’s the one that thought of the Titanic (www.historyofthetitanic.org) . It took over
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that there was heavy packed ice and icebergs (www.titanic-titanic.com ). At 11:40pm. crew men sound the alarm saying that an iceberg is near, only about 500 yards away. First Officer William Murdoch heard the message and instantly activates the watertight doors. Because of the sudden announcement, The Titanic, did not have enough time that she made contact with the iceberg on the her starboard side. Five watertight compartment started to commence with water only ten minutes after the collision with the iceberg. At 12:25am. the order was given to start loading women and children into the lifeboats. At 02:18am. Titanic split in half. According to www.titanicuniverse.com with the deaths in first and second class combined did not equal the deaths in third class. The sinking of Titanic took 536 third class passengers, 130 first class passengers, and 166 second class passengers. The Titanic took 1,347 lives of only men, and out of 899 crew members 685 of them died. Today the Titanic lays 12,000 feet in depth on the ocean floor (www.titanicfacts.net). It took roughly 15 minutes for she can reach the ocean floor, at a speed of descent of 16 kilometers per hour. “It took over 70 years to find Titanic” (www.planet-science.com). Robert Ballard was the man that found Titanic, he used a deep-sea vehicle called “Argo”. Ballard had Argo follow a trail of debris that let them straight to the Titanic.
Robert Ballard was known for his work in underwater archeology and discovery of shipwrecks. He joined the army in 1965 and requested to fulfill his obligation in the navy. His request to aiding in the navy allowed Ballard to design small, unmanned submersibles that could be tethered and controlled from a surface ship. Ballard’s works that were contributed in aiding the navy also contributed in searching for his first shipwreck, the Titanic. Robert Ballard was able to contribute his discoveries to America by the exploration of undersea technology, his relationship with the navy in cooperating with Ballard’s explorations, and the use of deep-diving submarines to explore the surface of the ocean and encounter abandoned or destroyed ships of past
I am reading a marvelous book of the I Survived books called I survived the Sinking of the Titanic by: Lauren Tarshis. I love the series of this books they are so good and most of the time filled with lots of mysteries. Most of the time the book is written in a Third Person…Limited omniscient because the author Lauren is talking as the main character George. The setting takes place as they said the unsinkable ship “The Titanic” It took place in the 1912 of April 15 and was one of the most horrific thing that had ever happened.
On April 15, 1912 at 2:20am the “unsinkable” Titanic disappeared under the waves. This is what happened to the Titanic when it sunk. The people were affected by the cold water and nearly 1,496 people died of hypothermia at the surface. Some of the people might’ve been alive on the inside but on the outside they were dead.
Titanic 1500 people died on the catastrophic night of April 14th, riding the Titanic. The ship had around 2240 people on it and over half perished. Captain Edward Smith was to drive the ship from England to New York. Smith went to school as a child, but dropped out at age 12 to be a sailor. He had sailed a lot of cargo ships, but not many passenger ships.
According to “A History In Numbers” by Dave Fowler, only 706 people aboard the Titanic survived the terrible accident, while the other 1,529 were taken down with the ship. Many people believed the iceberg was to blame for the sinking of the ship; however, the problems surrounding the ship began long before the ship set sail. “R.M.S Titanic” by Hanson W. Baldwin revealed that the crew was so confident in the ship’s inability to sink that they did not even pack enough lifeboats in case of an emergency. Furthermore, the captain and crew neglected to practice many safety drills that could have possibly saved many lives. The Titanic was doomed once the captain and crew set foot on the ship because of the arrogant aura they carried which resulted in the confusion and lack of resources that were obtainable during the sinking to many of the passengers including Master Harold Victor Goodwin and his family.
On April 15 the unsinkable ship went down into the North Atlantic Ocean. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic by Lauren Tarshis is about the tragedy of the Titanic. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic is about a 10 year old boy named George. Living in New York, George and his sister, Phoebe, went to England with their Aunt Daisy. They sail home on the ship of the Titanic.
Causes: When the titanic sank to the bottom of the ocean; it was 70 years until the wreckage was found by an expedition that was run by a famous oceanographer. Course: The unsinkable ship was out at sea for 3 days and hit an iceberg and 2 ½ hours to sink everyone was not able to be saved. The lifeboats could have held around 1000 people but only 705 people were saved. 1,500 people died that night.
Dead Wake archives the sinking of the RMS Lusitania of the Cunard line. Our story begins with the great liner docked at Pier 54 in Manhattan in late April of 1915. The liner, Lucy, as her nickname was, needed to be laden with 5,690 tons of coal, enough to propel her across the Atlantic at 24 knots. She was built like a battleship, with her coal bunkers along the hull on the outer edge, this would prove devastating. Captain William Thomas Turner would oversee all this.
The Unsinkable Ship Now Lays Under the Sea By Haruta Otaki Recently, the sinking of the unsinkable ship RMS Titanic occurred on 14 April 1912. It took more than 1500 people with her to the bottom of the sea and to death. The Titanic sank by the cause of a collision with a giant drifting iceberg. We will report what really happened to the Titanic, and why it never reached New York.
NEW YORK, April 16, 1912 – These pinnacles of fact concerning the world’s greatest steamship disaster – the sinking at 2:20 a.m. Monday, of the White Star liner Titanic, off the Banks of Newfoundland, stood out prominently early today, as sifted from the wireless reports. Revised estimate of loss of life, 1,234 souls. The $10,000,000 steamship cargo and jewels, worth perhaps $10,000,000 more, a total loss. An unknown newspaper printed the above article, and those are the 1912 estimates of the value of treasures that went down with the Titanic.
The Titanic’s maiden voyage was a disaster because the people didn’t prepare for things like this. Most ships go over a safety procedures, but the Titanic didn’t do such a thing. They only rescued wealthy people, which I felt was wrong. Some passengers jumped off the ship in desperation. Whoever drove the ship couldn’t have been paying attention.
The White Star Line’s Titanic, the largest ship the world had ever seen, sailed from Southampton to New York, on April 10, 1912 (Dupuis). The Titanic was built by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, at Belfast. It was a steel ocean liner at record breaking dimensions, registered at Liverpool, its weight came in at 46,328 tons, its length overall being 882 feet, with a breadth of 92 feet and a depth of 65 feet (Dupuis). The distance from the keel to the top of the funnels was 175 feet, the bottom extending the full length of the ship, and was divided into 16 water-tight compartments, with access to each compartment through water-tight doors (Dupuis). The rudder by itself weighed an immense 100 tons (Dupuis).
The ship never made it to its final stop. The Titanic sank on April 15th 1912. The Titanic’s hull was the largest man-made movable object in the world. Titanic’s 29 huge boilers powered the ship’s two main engines.
They were very confident that the Titanic could not sink because of its massive size and well designed hull. But it actually came down to the operators of the ship that would be its downfall. While some people 's ignorance brought upon pain and suffering, it also brought out the thoughtfulness and bravery of others. The Titanic is said to have been brought down by a huge iceberg that struck the hull of the ship, yet what if it was really the people commanding the boat that ended its life? She left the harbor on her maiden voyage to New York on April 10,1912.
The Titanic Hadleigh looked up at her Aunt asked what was happening to the Titanic and she said it was sinking and she needed her to stay with her and she will explain later. The Titanic was a man-made ship. On April 10, 1912 the Titanic set sail. On April 14, The Titanic hit an iceberg without warning. Everybody started panicking and most of the men died to let the children and women live since they are more important for the world. The titanic shouldn’t have hit the iceberg even though the Titanic didn’t have enough warning about the iceberg, the iceberg hit and tore the ship making it sink and a lot of people died. There