Titanic

Now I want to tell you something about the history of the ship TITANIC:

• The RMS Titanic was constructed in 1908 in Belfast by Andrews (RMS means Royal Mail Ship.
• The construction lasted 4 years
• The Titanic was one of the biggest passenger ships, it could take 2.207 people and had a longitude of 269 meters and was 28 meters wide the weight of the ship was 45000 tones and from the waterline to the deck it was 18 meters high
• The captain was Edward John Smith
• The Titanic was the most luxuries ship in this time and was called unsinkable; it was also called the ship of the dreams.
• The first class was very luxurious, the second class was more comfortable than the first class of other ships and the third class was very simply equipped
• On the 10th of April 1912 the Titanic left Southampton for her maiden voyage to New York.
• Many Passengers wanted to start a new and better life in New York
• 885 of the 2207 people abroad the ship were crew members
• The Titanic received several ice warnings on the 14th of April, but this didn’t hold them to reduce the speed
• At 11.40 PM they crashed into a iceberg
• The ship started to fill with water
• The crew started to broadcast S.O.S and the Carpathian reacts to the emergency call and raced at full speed to the Titanic but the way took 4 hours
• Panic broke out and everything got out of control
• The lifeboats reached only for half of the passengers
• The lifeboats should be taken with 64 people but in most boats sat only 32 and in one just 12 passengers
• After 3 terrible hours full of panic and screaming people the titanic sank
• They have saved only 700 people, primarily women and children of the first class
• 1500 people fell in the cold North Atlantic and died a cruel death, they were frostbitten
• Most passengers who had died were from the third class even the captain he didn’t want to leave the ship 

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