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Titanic Essay, Research Paper

Titanic

Titanic was the largest ship in the world, built by a workforce of 17,000.

The ultimate in turn-of-the-century design and technology. First-class suites

ran to more than $ 55,000 in todays dollars, and when she sailed on her maiden

voyage from Southampton, England on route to NY , she held among her 2,227

passengers. The cream of industrial society, including colonel John Jacob Astor.

Macys founder; U.S. congressman Isidor Straus and Thomas Andrews, the ships

builder. The ship was built of easily sealed-off compartments. If, for some

unimaginable reason, the hull were punctured, only the compartment actually

ruptured would flood. In an worst case example – builders figured that the

Titanic would take from one to three days to sink, time for nearby ships to help,

because there was only 16 lifeboats. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out that

way.

On April 14th, 1912 at about 7:30, at the first ominous hint of disaster

has came. Into the earphones of the wireless operator on duty came amessage from

the steamer California: Three large bergs five miles southward from us. But the

Titanic continued to rush through the deepening darkness. The temperature was

one degree above freezing. When lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee had

come on duty at 10 P.M., the sky was cloudless and the air clear. At around

11:30 P.M., just half an hour before they were to be rewired, a slight haze had

appeared, directly ahead. And about two points on either side. Suddenly – his

training causing his reflexes to function instinctively. Fleet gave the warning

bell and immediately reached across the crowns nest to the bridges telephone. In

its compartment on the starboard side. He rang? ms bell urgently. Fleet replaced

the telephone and gripped the crowns nest rail.

At 11:40 P.M., April 14 , 1912 ; The lookouts spotted the iceberg? a

quarter-mile ahead. Had they not alerted the bridge, the ship would not have

attempted a turn. At 11:40P.M. ; the ship sideswipes the ice. Because of the

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