Реферат: The Titanic Essay Research Paper TitanicThe titanic

boiler makers, grease men, window cleaners, or line keepers (RMS Engineering

p.2). Only a few dozen of them were engaged in the seamanship directly. Even

fewer were officers. The captian of the boat was E. J. Smith. He had sailed over

two million miles with the White Star Line before the Titanic, which was to be his

last ship before he retired, but he never got the chance because like a good

Capitan should, he went down with the ship.

The ship set sail and traviled 386 miles on the first day, then 519 miles

on the second day (Titanic, p.4). the ship was on the way to New York from

Great Britian and everyone was eager to get there. So again the Captian increased

their speed. The fourth day was April 14, 1912, the day the unsinkable ship sunk.

They hit an iceberg at the speed of 22.5 knots (Titanic, p.4). The icepberg made

a huge hole in the ships double bottoms. No one beleived the ship would go

down and it wasn’t until half an hour later that the first call for help went out. At

least five other ships got the distress signal, among the was the ship, Carpathia.

This ship was competing with the Titanic for passengers, but never the less they

quickly changed course to save the people aboard the shinking ship. Only 700

people, mostly women and children boarded the life boats, most women would

not leave their husbands behind (Lord, p.7). Some men dressed in women’s

clothing to get off the ship, I guess in a life and death situation some people are

shameless.

One of the more famous things about the Titanic was the Orchestra, which

kept on playing while the shiop went down. There are some speculations as to

which song they were playing, but most say it was happy to help raise people’s

spirits.

The Carpathia arrived around dawn. A lot of people were saved, but so

many would die in the moments to come. The second officer of the Carpathia

wrote these words as he watched the ship go down, and I quote… “Slowly and

almost magestially, the emense stern reared itself up, with propellers and rudders

clearing the water of the cold Atlantic…. Like a prayer as the disappeared, the