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Titanic the unsinkable




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Titanic - The Unsinkable���

On April 10th, 1912, the Titanic - the ship afloat, left Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York City.

A legend even before she , her passengers were a of the world's wealthiest basking in the elegance of class accommodations and immigrants packed into steerage.

It was touted as the safest ship ever built, so safe that she carried only 20 - enough to provide accommodation for only half her 2,200 passengers and crew.

Four into her journey, at 11:40 P.M. on the night of April 14, she struck an iceberg. The collision was fatal and the icy water soon poured through the .

It became obvious that many not find safety in a lifeboat. Each passenger was issued a life but life expectancy would be short when to water four degrees below freezing. As the forward portion of the ship deeper, passengers scrambled to the stern.

The great ship slowly slid beneath the waters two hours and forty minutes after the .

The next morning, the liner Carpathia rescued 705 survivors. One thousand five hundred twenty-two passengers and crew were . Subsequent inquiries attributed the high loss of life to an insufficient number of lifeboats and inadequate training in their use.


Accordingly to the text, it�is correct to say:

Titanic was a great ship.
The ship was created to be the unsinkable ship.
The Titanic completed its journey after the crash.
The passangers in the ship were just wealthy people from Europe.
The ship was prepared for anything that could ever happen.
The ship took almost 3 hours to sank into the ocean.
Around one thousand five hundreds passengers were rescued.
The Titanic had life jacket for every passenger.
All passengers could get in the lifeboats and wait�to be�rescued.
Now discuss the questions below or write it to your teacher:
  • What would have happened if the Titanic had sailed to South Africa?
  • What if�the ship�had had more life boats?�
  • What if it had been summer?���
  • What if there had been more liners close by?

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