The Titanic: The Sinking Of The Titanic

What made the sinking of the Titanic so important? The Titanic was a 3 million dollar boat that took three years to build. Everyone believe that the Titanic was unsinkable. Which was proved wrong on April 15th 1912 at 2:20am on its way to New York from Southampton, England. There was 2,240 passengers, that’s including crew. The 2 hours and 40 minutes before the Titanic sank most of those people became cowards, selfish, and only cared about the themselves and their family.
The Titanic was a giant ship, and according to the article Sinking of the Titanic the ship was 882 feet long, 92 feet wide, 104 feet high, and weighed 46,328 tons. The Titanic could hold 3,547 passengers that is including crew, but on its travel to New York there was 2,240 passengers and crew. Also the 3 million dollar boat only had 20 lifeboats each of them could carry up to 40 people. This means that only 1,178 people out of the 2,240 could survive, but they only filled each lifeboat with 28 people some even with 10 to 15 people on the each …show more content…
When people started getting on the lifeboats “the law of the sea, women and children boarded the lifeboats first; only when were no women or children nearby were men permitted to board”. And according to the Titanic's lookouts rang the warning bell at 11:30 warning Captain Edward John Smith that there is an iceberg, for the Titanic’s gears reversed quickly. So the collision only scraped below the water line on the right side of the bow, for the lookout sensed no damage. But two hours and forty minutes later with the Titanic’s lights still on, but after the last lifeboat hit the water the Titanic went down in the the freezing water bring hundreds with it. The next morning The Cunard’s Carpathia was the closest ship when the Captain of the Titanic sent out the rescue warning, and the Carpathia found 705 survivors most with frostbite and very