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The Titanic Essay Research Paper TitanicThe titanic

The Titanic Essay, Research Paper


Titanic


The titanic, a wonderful, beautiful, big unsinkable way to America. A


story of triumph and tradgedy. On April 10, 1912 the miraculous boat was


ready to sail. it was owned by the White Star Line and was built at Harland


and Wolff Shipbuilding company. The Titanic was 882 ft. long and weighed


45,000 tons. It could hold 3200 passengers, but it only had


enough life boats for abuot 1200 people. That did not matter


because even God could not sink this ship.


The price for a ticket varried greatly, the highest price being $870.00 for


a first class ticket all the way down to $2.00 for a third class ticket .


Most people were third class. This was really an amazing ship, too bad it went


down on it’s maiden voyage. On the boat there were 28 stateroooms and suites


for the first class passnegers (Titanic, p.2). Special staterooms located on decks


B and C of the shop were designed with different motiefs. The upperclass


passengers had about eight different styles to choose from, so they could better


enjoy the voyage (Titanic, p.2). Some of the suites had fire places that burned


coal in the sitting room and gigantic beds in the bedroom. the most expensive


suite had five rooms and a private bathroom, this truly was a luxury liner. Must


upper class people had dinner at a huge restaurant on deck D (Titanic, p.2). It


was 92 ft. wide and 114 ft. long. (Titanic, p.2) . The restaurant sat about 500


people (Titanic, p.2). There were a few other places to have dinner on the boat,


even a real French restuarant called, “Cafe Parisien” (Titanic, p.2). During the


day many rich people went to the Lounge at the Promenade deck, the walls were


similar to the ones at Versailles Castle near Paris, it was truly magnificent. Next to


this was the Georgian reading and writing room for women and next to that was


the Smoking room for men. The Titanic had a sense of space and openess


(Titanic, p.2)


Exactly 860 people worked on board the Titanic. (RMS Deck Crew p.1).


340 of them worked below decks in the ngine department as engineers, timmers,


boiler makers, grease men, window cleaners, or line keepers (RMS Engineering


p.2). Only a few dozen of them were engaged in the seamanship directly. Even


fewer were officers. The captian of the boat was E. J. Smith. He had sailed over


two million miles with the White Star Line before the Titanic, which was to be his


last ship before he retired, but he never got the chance because like a good


Capitan should, he went down with the ship.


The ship set sail and traviled 386 miles on the first day, then 519 miles


on the second day (Titanic, p.4). the ship was on the way to New York from


Great Britian and everyone was eager to get there.

So again the Captian increased


their speed. The fourth day was April 14, 1912, the day the unsinkable ship sunk.


They hit an iceberg at the speed of 22.5 knots (Titanic, p.4). The icepberg made


a huge hole in the ships double bottoms. No one beleived the ship would go


down and it wasn’t until half an hour later that the first call for help went out. At


least five other ships got the distress signal, among the was the ship, Carpathia.


This ship was competing with the Titanic for passengers, but never the less they


quickly changed course to save the people aboard the shinking ship. Only 700


people, mostly women and children boarded the life boats, most women would


not leave their husbands behind (Lord, p.7). Some men dressed in women’s


clothing to get off the ship, I guess in a life and death situation some people are


shameless.


One of the more famous things about the Titanic was the Orchestra, which


kept on playing while the shiop went down. There are some speculations as to


which song they were playing, but most say it was happy to help raise people’s


spirits.


The Carpathia arrived around dawn. A lot of people were saved, but so


many would die in the moments to come. The second officer of the Carpathia


wrote these words as he watched the ship go down, and I quote… “Slowly and


almost magestially, the emense stern reared itself up, with propellers and rudders


clearing the water of the cold Atlantic…. Like a prayer as the disappeared, the


word were breathed, ’she is gone” end quote (Anderson, p.2). The unsinkable


ship had sunk on her maiden voyage.


Among the loss of a beautiful ship about 1495 trusting lives had been


taken by the awful diseaster (Titanic, p.2). There were exactly 2207 people


aboard the Titanic and only 712 made it off the boat alive (Titianic, p.3). The


last known survivor, a Swedish lady named Mrs. Beatrice Sandstrum who was


only two years old when she and her mother and sister were aboard the Titanic.


recently died at the age of 85 years old (Billnitzer, p.1). The three were in their


cabin when the iceberg hit the boat. They stayed there until a steward came and


told them to put on their life jackets and to the to upper deck to board the life


boats. They were on one of the last boats to leave the ship to go to safety and 40


minutes later the Titanic sank to the bottom of the cold dark sea (Billnitzer, p.1).


The Titanic was a true story of triumph and tradgedy. A ship that was so


big and beautiful that nothing could bring it down. Then on it’s maiden voyage


this incredible ship that could withstand any thing but nature, hit an iceberg and


went down. The Titanic is still at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean in between


Great Britian and the United States (Davis, p.1)

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