Titanic - Original Writing
Titanic, 882 feet long, 92 feet broad, 45000 tons register, 66000 tons
displacement and 175 feet high. The biggest and most luxurious ship
known to mankind, and she was sitting right in front of me. She looked
even bigger in real life and I felt great anticipation and excitement.
A chance of a lifetime, I was one of the few lucky enough to be chosen
to actually work onboard the Titanic.
It was just an hour until the Titanic would set sail on her maiden
voyage and I felt I little nervy about boarding her. I decided that
the only way to settle my nerves was to consume a moderate amount of
brandy. I entered the local bar, which overlooked Southampton dock
where the Titanic was anchored. The bar was just one single room,
decorated with old ship anchors and pictures of fishing boats. The bar
was mostly filled with middle class men who, like me, thought they
would grab one last beer on dry land. To my surprise I noticed one of
my old friends who was sat in the far corner of the room with a rather
large red haired woman. I squeezed in-between some rowdy men who were
singing at the bar. I was lucky not to get soaked in beer, as their
antics were a little over exuberant. As I approached the table where
my friend was sat, he looked up and acknowledged me. I got the
immediate impression that he had consumed a few too many drinks
because when he tried to stand up to greet me he was unsteady on his
feet. He invited me to the table and asked what I was doing in here. I
told him that I had a job on the Titanic as an entertainments officer.
He told me that he was emigrating to New York with his wife. I looked
at my wa...
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... in some blankets and sat me down. I looked around still shivering
violently and to my amazement the lifeboat was nearly empty. I pleaded
with the men to go back for more survivors but they said that they
would only get sucked under with the Titanic. They rowed the ship well
out of range of the Titanic so we could only see minute dots falling
from the ship. We watched as the world's largest man-made moving
object was sucked under by the Atlantic Ocean. We watched it until the
last piece was submerged. I knew very well that there must have been
over one thousand people that had perished and quite possibly my
friends as well. This truly was the worst thing that could have
happened. I sat there in the lifeboat for the next two hours waiting
to be picked up by the nearest ship, those two hours were the longest
of my life.
I am writing my first entry aboard this incredible vessel today, primarily because I have been spending the last three days exploring the sections open to my fellow third-class passengers and I. What I have seen is extraordinary, especially when first boarding the ship. The halls and staircases of the first class section were like nothing I had ever seen before in my life. They were blanketed in luxury from end to end. The first class passengers I had managed to see wore their best garments boarding the ship and were conversing with each other about their rich lives back home. I believe I even saw Mr. John Jacob Astor, a man I had heard much about for his contributions to the American fur trade. I had heard that he would be aboard for the maiden voyage of ...
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clubs and pubs. The other side of the city is quite and dark. The fog
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