The Titanic Research Paper

“Unsinkable!” people called the new ship that the White Star Line recently finished. It was called the Titanic, a British luxury passenger liner. It was a very huge spectacle back in the day of 1912. It was the biggest ship in the world. Many people came to watch it set off on its maiden voyage, not knowing what awaits them at sea. Many passengers called it a floating hotel because of it's vastness and luxury. All kinds of people went on the Titanic, from Asian to European, famous or common, wealthy and poor. This all began on March 31st, 1909.
The White Star Line first announced their construction on the Titanic in 1907. They employed over 3000 men to build it, which started on March 31st, 1909. The construction was occupying the Harland and

First class passengers were mostly rich, well-known or famous. Some of them include John Jacob Astor (multi-millionaire and hotel owner), Benjamin Guggenheim (banker and multi-millionaire), Bruce Ismay (Chairman of the White Star Line), W.T Stead (editor and spiritualist), The Countess of Rothes and Molly Brown. One of the designers, Thomas Andrews, also was on board the ship and stayed with it when it went down. Second class passengers aboard the Titanic enjoyed luxury that was first class in rivalling ships. Out of 285 only 119 second class passengers survived. Third class passengers were mostly immigrants going to America to start a new life. The youngest passenger aboard the Titanic, Millvina Dean,( February 2, 1912 to 31 May, 2009)was also an immigrant. She was only 2 months and 27 days when she boarded the Titanic with her parents and brother, Bertram, in Southampton. Unfortunately out of all the passengers and crew(2223) only 1517 of them

That was a great mistake that cost over 1500 people their lives. At 11: 40 the lookouts, Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee, spotted an iceberg right ahead. ( Wikipedia 2011) Frederick rang the the ship's bell and phoned the bridge. Then First Officer William Murdoch, receiving the news from Officer James Moody, ordered “Hard a'starboard”.( Wikipedia 2011) Unfortunately the ship did not turn fast enough and hit the iceberg on the starboard side( right). Because the iceberg hit some areas, it caused some rivets to pop out, below the water line. The first life boat( Lifeboat #7) was lowered at around 12: 45 with only 28 people in a boat able to hold