Titanic

Titanic By: Katie Gilmore

 It was April 10,1912 when it Titanic's main voyage.The ship was said to be unsinkable and the biggest luxury ship next to her sisters ships. The Titianic was designed and built by the best engineers and they used the most advanced technology at the time. The people who design the Titanic were Lord William Pirrie and Thomas Andrews.When they were designing the Titanica man calles Carlisle suggested that Titanic use a new davit which could handle four lifeboats. Titanic had 64 lifeboats which could hold about 4,000 in weight. Although the White star line agreed to it but they only thought the 16 lifeboats were actually needed on boars the ship. The Titanic was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast,Ireland. Titanic was completed on March 31,1912. Titanic had a swimming pool,gymnaseuim,squash court,Verandah Cafe for the first class passengers. The second and first class passenger both had libraries and baber shops. First class paid huge amounts of money for such luxuries. The most expensive ticket for first class passengers was 4,350 dollars now in 2008 it is 95,860 dollars. The Titanic began her voyage from Southhampton,England which would end in New York City. While Titanic was making her way out of the docks, another ship called the New York broke away from it ties from the dock when that happen it got dangerously close to the Titanic but luckily before it could do any damage a tow boat came and took it away. This incident delayed the Titanic's voyage another hour. Titanic stop at additional places by the time it was set to go to New York there was 2,240 people aboard. On the night of April 14,1912 a message from another ship was that there was many larger icebergs ahead but they ignore it. 400 miles from Grand Banks of Newfoundland,The lookouts spotted a large iceberg. They tried to turn the ship away from iceberg but it was to late. They have already hit the iceberg along the starboard side. As all the lifeboats started to be fully loaded people started to get very nervous. At 2:05 am, the whole bow was underwater and the stern lifted into the air. There was 20 lifeboats but only 18 lifeboats were actually launched. At 2:17 am,the water had reached the boat's deck. A little bit after that the ship sank into the ocean. RMS Carpathia arrived at 4:05 am and started to rescue all the survivors from Titanic. By 8:50, they were on track to New York City. Once the death toll was clear,White star line made a charter to recover bodies. Each ship that left to do so, had many supplies and clergy men to help. There were 2,223 of which only 706 survived. The death toll is 1,517 of which half died from being in the ice cold water to long. The Titanic was thought to be lost forever until Robert Ballard. He had found the Titanic when all others seem to fail too. Titanic was discovered by Robert Ballard and his team in 1985. Many explorations have been made to this ship and now the ship that started on land will forever be a part of the sea. Titanic will never be forgotten in our hearts.