The Titanic: The Survivor Of The Titanic

Image you got on the most talked about and the largest ship ever built in the 1900’s, The Titanic, thinking it was going to be all fine and dandy because it was unsinkable. The RMS Titanic was the largest passenger ship the world has ever seen in the early 20th century and was also unsinkable. “The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It was the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it,” Eva Hart, Survivor of The Titanic. Even though the ship took almost 3 years to build, life aboard was great until the night Titanic struck an iceberg.

The Construction

Building The Titanic was a long, hard process that took about twenty-six months. The ship was constructed of 882 feet and 9 inches and could have held 3,547

One night, things took the wrong turn. On April 15, 1912 , in the early hours, The Titanic was in the Northern Atlantic Ocean was suddenly it struck an iceberg. Just off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, the iceberg ripped a tear in the hull of the ship causing tons of water to rush in. Once the crew announced what had happened, the passengers went chaotic. Everyone was screaming and trying stay safe. Now since The Titanic was supposed to be “unsinkable”, they had only put twenty lifeboats on the ship. The crew was trying to maintain everyone but it was not happening. The crew had decided to let women and children on the lifeboats first. But, they were not even filling up half the boats.They had let First and Second class get on the lifeboats first, so that led to many Third class lives lost. As the ship started to sink more, the tilt of it became more apparent, causing more passengers to panic, but Captain Smith remained with the same orders , ‘Women and Children first”. At 2:20 in the morning, The Titanic took it’s final plunge into the cold water, leaving more than 1,500 lost their lives in the