“Even God could not sink her,” it was bragged. The Titanic was the fastest and the biggest ship in the world. 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.…
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…
took place at the Titanic Disaster? The Titanic was one of the biggest ships ever to set sail. The Titanic was also one of the few ships in 1912 to have little lifeboat space for its passengers The person you would need to talk to would be Captain Stanley Philip Lord. Since he was the one that did not respond correctly to the flares shot by the Titanic, he had absolutely no experience with ice fields, and as Captain of the ship he made incorrect assumptions about what was going on at the…
many iceberg warnings, but he ignored them thinking that passenger messages were more important. He also gave into Bruce Ismay of the White Star Line to go faster and dock earlier to make headlines.…
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.…
returning to America after visiting London and the surrounding area with their Aunt Daisy. George is always getting in trouble and is very curious. He’s been all over the ship even to areas where he is not supposed to go. He’s made friends in steerage and exasperated his aunt and his sister and a number of the other first class passengers. His behavior had previously been causing problems between him and his father. Since George and Phoebe’s mother died a few years ago the family just hasn’t…
history, the sinking of the Titanic, the influenza epidemic, and WWI that shifted the American economy for the better. One of the largest social events of this decade was the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. At its time, the Titanic was the largest passenger boat in the world. The…
unsuspecting captain. The captain was so sure of the “unsinkable” ship and the excellent time they were making he decided to relax and pulled out his phone. While he was texting his wife the Titanic hit the iceberg that leads to its sinking. So don’t text and drive, you will hit an iceberg and drown in the freezing waters of the Atlantic… Obviously that’s not how it went. Captain Smith was a respectable man that went down with his ship along with over a thousand people. However, the morale of…
Since they did not have enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship, a lot of people drowned or died from hypothermia. The water was about 28 degrees Fahrenheit. The way that water can do below freezing without being frozen is salt. Salt doesn’t make the water colder, but it allows the water to be colder without being…
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…