“A Wall of Ice and the Titanic”
Before the Titanic crashed into an iceberg at April 15, 1912, Frederick Fleet and Quartermaster George Thomas Rowe were patrolling the Titanic at April 10, 1912, the passengers, John Jacob Astor, Henry Sleeper Harper, Robert W. Daniel, And Clarence Moore of Washington, with their dogs. The baker, Walter Belford, serving pastries. Firemen were watching the boiler room. It was a very calm and cold night, trying to get to France, Ireland, then New York, then return. Suddenly, while the Titanic was going on its major voyage, the iceberg crashed into the Titanic.
When the Titanic got struck by an iceberg, bells and alarms suddenly went off. The Firefighters ran for safety as ice falls down. "Turn off the engines." The captain said. "Yes sir," the firemen said. “Turn on the lights for rescue ships!” the captain said. The first and second class didn’t care, and were very calm, but people in the third class panicked, trying to get higher up the ship. “You can’t cross,” a guard said. “Why not!?” a lady shouted. “You are in the third class; you cannot progress to the second class or first.” The guard said. As people in the third class argued, people from the first and second class evacuated to get out of the Titanic escape rafts.
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When the guards aren't looking at the third class, they broke the gate and them ran to the rafts, but there aren't any more rafts. “What are we going to do?” the crowd said. “Get back to your third class!” guards yelled. Everyone found some more rafts and left but only 4 people were left remaining. “Boom! Crash!” the Titanic slowly sinks to the sea. The captain with their firemen and their baker in a raft, evacuating the Titanic. “What are we going to do?” A lady said. A man jumped into the sea as he thought he can swim on the cold sea. ” We are never going to make it out alive!” People
April 14th, 1912, will go down in history as a day when disaster struck. It was the day the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg that after a mere four hours, caused it to sink to the bottom of the ocean, taking 1,500 people with it. But it wasn’t just one thing that caused this tragedy, and although there were many individuals and events that led to the sinking of the Titanic, the person most responsible for the sinking of this ship is Bruce Ismay. He chose not to put enough lifeboats on the Titanic, urged the captain to make the ship maintain speed while passing through ice fields, and allowed the use of cheap material and watertight compartments that didn’t reach high enough.
This British ocean liner was one of the biggest cruise ships ever made. The ship began its maiden voyage in the early morning of April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England to New York City. Mainly the ships 2,200 passengers were of deathly upper-class families looking for a good time in the city, while a smaller amount was people going to the city to find work. Many thought that when they board the ship, they were in for the trip of a lifetime. Well, that trip soon ended in tragedy. The Titanic sank early in the morning on the 15th when the ship hit an iceberg. Captain Edward J. Smith had the ship sailing full speed ahead despite the concerns about several icebergs. The ship received multiple warnings about dangerous ice fields in the North over the telegraph. General Corfield who was in charge of warning the captain of any obstacles along the way, said he failed to pass the warning along by senior radio operator, Jack Phillips. The “unsinkable” was actually built with very sinkable cheap material. It was built with low-grade iron rivets instead of the more expensive higher-grade material rivets. These small details easily could have been avoided (history.com
Unfortunately there was very many important people on the ship. Many of the people on the titanic died in the freezing cold water.There was thre...
Nowadays, it is a very dangerous and risky adventure to take a ship to the Northern Sea. We are so advanced in technology, but still no one wants to risk their lives. The captain and his crew were traveling during the navigation season, but they were facing fog and icebergs on their way. They were stuck in ice and mist for a whole day. Finally, around two o?clock the fog and mist was gone and they could only see the endless ice surrounding them.
The RMS Titanic; A Tragedy Based on Class. In April, 1912, the so called "unsinkable" Titanic set sail to New York. The great ship was as big as five city blocks, and weighed thousands and thousands of tons. Everyone who was everyone grabbed a room on the luxurious ship for the trip of a lifetime. On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg an sank into the icy depths of the North Atlantic.
The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class ocean liner that set sail on April 10, 1912. It was billed the largest and fastest passenger liner of its time. Compared to previous ocean liners it was massive. It stood 175 ft. and was 882 ft. long. The name Titanic came from Greek mythology, and means gigantic. The Titanic had ten decks, eight of which were for passenger use. There were around 885 crew members on board. There were 2,224 passengers some of which were the most prominent and rich of the time. This makes the total on board 3,327 people. Four days into her voyage, she hit an iceberg. The collision caused holes that allowed five of the lower compartments to fill with water. It was two hours after the wreck that the ship began to sink. This wreckage of this tragedy has since been investigated by the British and American governments.
“We are in collision with berg. Sinking head down. 41.46° N, 50.41° W. Come soon as possible.” At 11:20 P.M. the “Unsinkable” ship sent this wireless distress message to the Olympic. But the Olympic did not get there in time. If the Titanic did not sink so fast then the Olympic and other ships could have gotten there in time to save all of the passengers. If the Titanic was built better then that would not be a problem. The Harland and Wolff Shipyard Company is to blame for the sinking of the Titanic and the high number of casualties because the wrong materials were used, the layout and design were poor, and they were too confident with their ship that safety was not a concern.
Drowning, screaming, Weeping, Send offs...These are some of the last words you heard from Jack Jill, Tyrone T. lll, Bob Blob and from others. The date was April 14-15 1912. The zone around North Atlantic Ocean. This was traumatic time/date. The Titanic had sunk and lots of people died 1,503 to be exact. But these people were rude, raw and blunt. And also the rude rich ones ended up dying. But not all of them died. It is kind of funny because the rude rich people were the ones that died. AKA people like Jack Jill and Bob Blob. The Titanic was on her maiden voyage, a return trip from Britain to America. The route was Southampton, England – Cherbourg, France – Queenstown, Ireland – New York, USA. The return route was going to be New York – Plymouth,
They were told “This is the Titanic, the unsinkable ship,” but what were they saying as the ship broke in two and began to sink. Did they all still believe that nothing could sink the magnificent Titanic? Or was the reality of the ship finally “sinking” in? These are questions today that people are still asking. The sinking of the Titanic was a tragic accident that still affects culture today.
There were about 2200 passengers and crew on the ship, and more than 1500 died. There are many reasons caused this accident: mistake of the manufacturer, mistake of the crew on board and mistake of the lifeboat placed. For this project, we will discuss the mistakes of the manufacturer. Failure Theory and analysis When the Titanic collided with the iceberg,
We have all heard about the Titanic. Either we have watched the romance movie or done our research in a different way. No matter where we get our information from we know the biggest parts of the tragedy. The ship Titanic crashed into an iceberg on a cold April night on the Atlantic Ocean while sailing its first trip. But haven’t you ever wanted to know more details about? Maybe how the people who were on it and survived? How could the situation be prevented? Couldn’t they have saved more people? Well in the book “A Night to Remember” it has details on the Titanic you have probably never thought of knowing. While reading the first chapter some parts really caught my attention. One was when people felt the jolt from the collision with the ice berg people didn’t suspect what tragedy was to come. A girl named Marguerite Frolicher, who was accompanying her father on a business trip, woke up with a jump since she was half asleep she was thinking about ‘little white lake ferries’ landing sloppily which made her laugh and thought to herself “Isn’t it funny…we’re landing!”. They really did...
The story behind the titanic is controversial, some people have seen the movie but they do not know the real facts behind it. This essay is going to talk about the main factors behind the Titanic’s failure, the design, the manufacturer, materials, the crew, survivors, Cost of building the ship, the engine, as well as human errors, and the cause from different point of views.
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