The Titanic Disaster By Emily and Lewis

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The Titanic DisasterBy Emily and Lewis
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Contents
Construction
Facilities Onboard
Maiden Voyage
Iceberg Collision
The Sinking
Survivors
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Construction

• Harland and Wolff originally designed the
  Titanic. They started building it in1911.
• It was a very dangerous job building the Titanic
  because they dont have any safety clothing or
  equipment .

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Facilities Onboard

• There was a private 50 foot promenade
• The ladies have there own reading and writing
  group.
• They had a heated swimming pool it was the first
  ever to be made on a boat
• There was a a first and second class smoking room
  for men.

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Maiden Voyage

• The ship set sail on the 10 April 1912.
• It went from Southampton to New York.
• There were 2,240 passengers on board.

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Iceberg Collision

• On Sunday the 14 April 1912 the temperature
  dropped to near freezing and the ocean was still
  and calm.
• The moon was not visible. Also it was 2 days
  before the new moon.
• The Titanic moved quickly across the ocean
  suddenly collided with a massive iceberg.

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The Sinking

• The Titanic was sailing at about 24 knots.
• Very close by they saw a iceberg and tried to
  doge it.
• But underneath the water the iceberg was a lot
  bigger than the people on the Titanic thought and
  it hit the hull and buckled a few panels.
• The Titanic could of held 32 lifeboats but it
  only had 20 on board.
• After 1 hour they had 1 lifeboat full and 3 hours
  later the titanic had slowly sank down to the
  bottom with the captain Edward John Smith.

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Survivors

• Ms Van Tongerloo was 8 years old when The Titanic
  was hit by an iceberg. She and her sister was
  were on the Titanic sailing to Detroit to see her
  father.
• There was 2200 people on board The Titanic but
  only 705 were saved.
• A passenger on board told her mother that she
  should get to the front deck with her children
  because there has been a bad accident.