Iceberg

In A Night to Remember, the Titanic was a massive ship by the White Star Line. The ship was intended to carry its 1,316 passengers and 891 crew members to New York. However, at 11:40 the Titanic struck an iceberg and began to sink. By the next morning over 1,500 people had died. The incident is considered to be a huge disaster. The White Star Line is at fault for the Titanic disaster because they didn’t have enough lifeboats for everyone on board, they didn’t fill the lifeboats to maximum…

It was also considered to be the most beautiful and unsinkable. Then on April 14, 1912, occurred the most remarkable ship catastrophe of the historical 100 years. The Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg and sank with a loss of 1500 people. The Titanic’s captain, Captain Edward J. Smith, played a bewildering role in this catastrophe. Smith was an experienced seaman. He was considered a rational choice for his post. But on that day he acted…

In the year 1912, the tragedy of the “Unsinkable” R.M.S (Royal Mail Steamer) Titanic occurred, but why? According to www.historyonthenet.com, there are many possibilities why the Titanic has an early grave, 12,500 feet under water, resting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Historians have argued over the possibilities ever since the incident had occurred. They believe the Titanic sank because of human error. Three of the many human errors that occurred on April 14,1912, are first of all…

labeled it as “practically unsinkable,” many people took the label “practically unsinkable,” and soon became known as the “unsinkable ship.” Most of the 2,227 passengers on board were so blinded by the ship’s label, that when the ship struck the iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14th, four days after the ship left Southampton, they seemed to be unconcerned. The crew members would tell them to put their life jackets on, but they would pretty much just ignore it. The first lifeboats that were being…

“Icebergs loomed up and fell astern and we never slackened. It was an anxious time with the Titanic's fateful experience very close in our minds.” (Captain Arthur H Rostron, Commander of the Carpathia). Taking place in the North Atlantic Ocean the sinking of the Titanic on April 14-15th, 1912 was a very terrifying day for Captain Edward J. Smith along with 2,200 passengers and crew. In the life boat, recalled Dorothy Gibson, “No one said a word. There was nothing to say and nothing we could…

However, the voyage was abruptly halted when it came into contact with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. On April 15, 1912, the “safest ship afloat” (MacQuitty. W.) sank, leaving only 711 survivors out of the initial 2,240 passengers who boarded the ship. The article “RMS Titanic” and the movie “A…

The Titanic was the “unsinkable” ship that sank and took the lives of 1,522 passengers and crew. The ship was widely believed to be the safest ever built at the time; however, the ship’s builders never said it was unsinkable. It was actually Shipbuilders magazine that described the ship as “practically unsinkable”. Though it has been over one-hundred years since the sinking of the Titanic, the story, which includes both heroes and villains, still enthralls us (Hutchings). The idea for the…

built in Belfast in Northern Ireland. The designer of the RMS Titanic is Thomas Andrews the captain is Edward Smith he was born in January 27 1850 he died with his ship. On the of day April 15 1912 it was around one in the morning the ship had hit an iceberg on the right side of the ship a lot of people died it took 160 minutes for it to sink. There were many famous on the ship that died and survived... Masabumi Hosono he wasn’t famous he was the only Japanese…

Marie Mallet’s Point of view (1887-1974) Once, there was a ship, a very BIG ship, and it, was called, the TITANIC! The Titanic was one of the most famous boats out there, with a whopping 2,228 passengers! But, what they did not know, there was an iceberg, ready to STRIKE the Titanic! There were 2,228 people on the Titanic, but only an estimation of 705 people, made it out alive! But there is only one survivor we will look at today… Antonine Marie Mallet! She was born on Friday, December 16th,…

Suddenly, at 11:40 PM, the ship had crashed into an iceberg. It was total chaos, because people had to run for their lives, find their families, and quickly get into a lifeboat before anyone else. An awful amount of men had died because of a protocol stating that all woman and children should enter a life…