Titanic

I’m going to tell you something about the Titanic. At the time it was built, it was the biggest moving object ever created. She was nearly the length of three football fields. The Titanic was built in Ireland. They decided to build a ship that would be the largest and most luxerious ship the world had seen so far. It contained 2 swimmingpools, a gym, private promonadedecks and hot water for bathing. These were all unusual things to have on a ship. The ship was devided into the first, second and third class. The first class were rich people. The second class were mostly middle class people like schoolteachers. Third class was filled with emigrants of europe who went to the New World, hoping to build a better life. On the 10th of April the Titanic sailed away. After a few stops in France and Ireland to take on passengers, she is ready to begin her first crossing over the Atlantic to her final destination New York. On the 14th of April they received more than 7 ice warnings. But they didn’t pay a lot of attention to it. That night the Titanic crashes into the iceberg, they inspected the damage of the ship themselves and found that the iceberg had damaged the ship’s plates in five or six of her watertight compartments. They quickly realized that the ship would sink. The captain gives order to uncover lifeboats and to get the passengers and crew on the deck. There were enough lifeboats for about 1100 people, only half of the almost 2300 people on board. A lot of people jumped into the icy water and try to swim from the ship but they died. The Titanic breaks apart and sinks. Today she is known as the ship of the widows, because so many women lost their husband that night.