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    The passengers aboard the RMS Titanic were about 2,223 people who sailed on the maiden voyage. They sailed from Southampton to New York City. With many great deaths that occurred on this “unsinkable ship”, many authors used this event as a background for a great story, but were the details of the event accurately portrayed? When writing Dangerous Waters, it is clear that Gregory Mone did his research and showed the event accurately. The book Dangerous Waters by Gregory Mone was a heart…

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    Survivors and Deaths The Spedden Story One Survival story, was about Douglas that was the only child of Frederic and Daisy Spedden when they boarded the Titanic. An hour after the shuddering collision, Douglas, his mother, Daisy, and two servants went into lifeboat 3. The dad was also allowed to get into a lifeboat when they let men get into lifeboats early on. They had all fortunately survived! Sadly Douglas’s life was cut short on August 6, 1915, two years after the Titanic crashed.…

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    New York he became involved with Macy and C.O. He and his wife traveled back to Europe on the “Amerika” for one last time before going back to New York for good. To get back to New York, Strauss and his wife purchased a first out of third class passenger ticket on a brand new ship, RMS’ White Star Line Titanic! When boarding the Titanic, people were swarming all around, nearly 3000 of them. This was many more than the ship could carry and I’ll…

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    Titanic Research Paper

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    Titanic hit the iceberg below the waterline, which made this ship helpless. It sent the Titanic to the bottom of the sea in just 2 ½ hours. The length of the Titanic was almost 900 feet. The Titanic weighted 46,000 pounds, With the weight of the passengers, the crew, cargo and fuel the weight was 60,000 pounds. On Wednesday, April 10, the Titanic left England. On Sunday, April 14, the radio operator got a message from the Amerkia. It warned that, by evening the evening the Titanic’s course would…

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    Left For Dead Essay

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    The sinking of the USS Indianapolis was one of America’s greatest naval tragedies as the Indianapolis was one of the flagship ships of the navy at the time as well as one of the fastest. On July 30th of 1945, at 4 minutes past midnight, on the route between Guam and Leyte Gulf, known as “Convoy Route Peddie,” the ship was hit by two of the six torpedoes that were fired at it by the I-58, a Japanese submarine.Ultimately only 317 men survived and were rescued in different groups at different…

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    Research Paper On Titanic

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    Come join us on a transatlantic cruise aboard the newly built ship, Titanic. This ship is an exact replica of the ship that sank in 1912, so you can experience the luxurious cruise and see why it was such a big deal to travel on. The new Titanic is officially unsinkable, unlike the original. Thanks to our friend, Climate Change, all of the icebergs have melted away. Climate Change has helped us increase the Earth’s temperature as much as 3°F to 12°F, allowing for over 15% of the arctic ice to…

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    First class had all the luxury. Second class on the other hand was a step down. Second class only had two rooms to see each other. They had a dining room and a promenade. Most of the second class passengers were teachers, merchants, and professionals of moderate. A second class ticket back then cost 60 dollars. Now a days a second class ticket would cost 1,375 dollars. Third class was the worst of the three. Most of the people in the third class were…

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    Luffy That Was My Fish

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    It was never a normal day on the ship of the straw hat pirates, there was always a noise going on. From Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper fishing to Brook playing a song to Sanji fangirling over Robin and Nami. While you were sitting at a table, sun beating down on you, with a killer headache. Curse all this noise. Noise was your worst enemy at the moment and it seemed like its winning. Everything seems to go quiet for only a moment, a blissful moment, before the sudden yelling from across the deck made…

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    Paper About Titanic

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    The film Titanic (1997) was based off of a true life event, though the romantic tragedy between Rose and Jack may be probable. The RMS Titanic was a newly build, British passenger ship that was on its first voyage across the Atlantic; sailing from Southampton, UK to New York City, NY. The Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean during the early morning hours of April 15th, 1912. The creators of the film took that moment in time to create a tragic love story about…

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    Who is responsible for the sinking of the titanic? This is important to know because the titanic's sinking was one of the most memorable tragedies in history. This has taught multiple ship makers what and what not to do. The audience should care because one day you might be asked this question as well. Captain Smith was responsible for the sinking of the titanic because he ignored multiple ice warnings, was at a party during the sinking getting drunk, and left the steering wheel unattended which…

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