Titanic

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Titanic the ship of dreams!
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THE UNSINKABLE Titanic

• It was on a Friday afternoon that the
  Titanic, the newest luxury-liner to Britain's
  White Star Fleet, departed from Queenstown,
  Ireland, on her maiden voyage from Southampton,
  England to New York.
• It carried 1,343 passengers, a crew of 885,
  and 3,814 sacks of mail. There was great
  excitement aboard as the big ship knifed its way
  through the Atlantic at 23 knots, a speed certain
  to set a new crossing record.
• A few hundred miles past the halfway point,
  lookouts in the crow's nest sighted an iceberg
  less than a quarter mile away. There was no time
  to stop or to swerve. The muffled grinding on
  impact gave little indication that the unsinkable
  Titanic had been fatally wounded.

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The map from Southampton to New York
New York
Southhampton
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An artists impression of the size of the iceberg
that the Titanic hit on April 15, 1912.
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Captain J. Smith
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The Facts?

• When? At 1159 P.M. on Monday,
  April 15, 1912.
• Shortly after 2
  A.M. the Titanic slid to its watery grave.
• Where? 1,191 mi. from New York.
• Who? There were 2228 people on
  board of the Titanic, 337 in first
  
• class, 285
  second class, 721 in third class and 885 crew
• members.
• The Loss? 1,493 passengers and crewmen
  perished.
• The Titanic
  had cost more than 8 million.
• The Survivors? Only 705 Titanic passengers
  survived
• The Cause? The experts agreed that the
  Titanic's captain, E. J. Smith, must
• have known of
  iceberg danger at least an hour before the
  
• disaster, yet
  there were no orders given to reduce speed. The
• weather was
  clear and cold with excellent visibility.
  Apparently,
• to achieve a
  record crossing was very important. The captain,
• passengers, and
  crew firmly believed the Titanic's publicity,
• that she was
  unsinkable. All were given the orders of "full
• speed ahead.
• What could possibly happen to an
  unsinkable ship?

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• The Disaster?
• It was just before midnight when the iceberg
  was spotted dead ahead, rising 30 metres above
  the surface of the water. Seconds later the
  Titanic rammed with a solid crunch on the
  portside forward, then climbed the submerged
  iceberg, tearing out the forward end of the ship
  below the waterline. The sound was so muffled
  that no one was frightened. After a few minutes,
  the more curious passengers, in a happy mood,
  drifted on deck to look around and reached over
  the bow rail to touch the iceberg. They were
  unaware of a 2nd danger.
• A fire that had broken out in the coal
  bunkers before leaving Southampton was still not
  extinguished. At 1225am, after having the damage
  assessed, Captain Smith ordered all persons
  assembled on the upper deck. With everyone in
  good spirits, this was accomplished in 15
  minutes. Passengers were informed of what had
  happened and of the captain's decision to abandon
  ship. There was no panic until at 1250am Chief
  Officer Murdock ordered "Crews to the boats!
  Women and children 1st."

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• Those in the lifeboats could see that the
  Titanic had sunk 8 10 metres, and her stern was
  out of the water. Lifeboat crews rowed furiously
  toward safety. A mile away from the wounded
  liner, survivors watched the Titanic break in two
  pieces, the forward half slipping beneath the
  surface. For a moment the rear half righted
  itself, then there was another explosion and it
  too began to sink in the icy waters. Survivors
  later
• reported they could hear
• the ship's string orchestra
• playing as the huge bottom
• section disappeared.

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The Rescue?

• Many ships had picked up the Titanic's SOS
  signal "Have struck iceberg. Badly damaged. Rush
  aid." The Carpathia arrived at the scene about 4
  A.M. and took on board such shocked and dazed
  survivors as it could find, then headed for New
• York. The Carpathia,
• with 700 survivors
• aboard, arrived in New
• York at 9am on April
• 18.

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The Discovery?

• The first
  live Titanic pictures were
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  taken on September 1, 1985, the
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  day the wreckage of the ship was
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  finally discovered. The following year, search
  crews returned to the area armed with a
  submersible vehicle named Alvin.
• In 1986, in later trips underwater, more
  artefacts were recovered from the wreckage of the
  Titanic. In total, more than 5,000 pieces have
  been recovered from the wreckage site. Today, the
  wreckage of the Titanic is considered by many to
  be a memorial to the lives of the 1,493 people
  who died when the ship sank on an early spring
  morning in 1912.

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Why is it important to recover and conserve
artefacts from Titanics wreck site?

• The bottom of the deep ocean is a hostile
  environment. Over time, man-made objects will be
  covered in bacteria, and corroded by salt and
  acids. Even the Titanic is slowly being destroyed
  by iron-eating micro-organisms and will one day
  collapse on the ocean floor. Artefacts that are
  not recovered from the wreck site will eventually
  be lost. RMS Titanic, Inc, is committed to
  recovering, conserving, and exhibiting artefacts
  from Titanics wreck site to help preserve the
  physical memory of the Ship and the people who
  perished in the disaster.

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The pictures?
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Crab
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Your task?

• Now in your SOSE book, write down the
  following headings and complete the answers using
  the information you have read.
• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?
• How?
• 5 Facts?