Titanic Argumentative Essay

Around 11:40 P.M on April 14, 1912 the Titanic, on its first voyage on water, hit what seemed to be a little iceberg; however, it was not little. After the ship hit the iceberg, Captain E. J. Smith ordered all of the lifeboats to be uncovered and to send wireless messages for help. Water was coming in through the gash the iceberg made on the bottom starboard, or the right side of the ship. The upper class did not pay any attention to the hit. However, the lower classes felt the impact of the iceberg and the ship. As the captain ordered the lifeboats to be uncovered, he called down to the engine room to seal all of the watertight doors. People from the lower class came out of there rooms and asked what happened. The workers told the passengers that it was nothing to worry about, and to go back to their rooms. However, it was something to worry about and to be scared of. What they said was the “unsinkable” ship was sinkable. 2,200 people were on board the Titanic when it struck the iceberg. Out of those 2,200 people only 705 passengers survived. The tragedy of the Titanic was not the sinking, it was the lives that were lost at sea. To prevent losing so many brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, and children the workers who were putting the passengers into the lifeboats could’ve …show more content…
J. Smith was trying to dock a day early to surprise the passengers. The captain was trying to set a record for the ship to arrive earlier than expected. By doing that he was going 21-22 knots. For a boat that is almost 30 miles per hour. That is very fast for a ship that big of a size. While the Titanic came closer to the iceberg the captain was trying to slow down the ship by stopping the propellers and reversing the rotation of them. (Cummins 1) The ship was going so fast it couldn’t slow down enough to steer away from the iceberg. If the captain wasn’t going that fast, the man who was steering the ship could have steered away and had a pretty good chance of avoiding the