TITANIC SINKS

1,503 dead- 705 survived

Captain goes down with ship

The “unsinkable” ship, The “unsinkable” ship, THE TITANIC, THE TITANIC, hit hit an an iceberg in mid-ocean and sank. 1,503 iceberg in mid-ocean and sank. 1,503 people are people are feared dead and this caused great shock feared dead and this caused great shock around the world. around the world.

16th April 1912 one halfpenny

The captain ordered that women and children were to get on the lifeboats first.

The first class menu on the Titanic was one of the biggest dinners ever to be served on a boat. This was what most the dinner menu was on the night it sunk.

First class dinner menu R.M.S. Titanic FIRST COURSEHors D’OeuvresOystersSECOND COURSEConsumé OlgaCream of BarleyFIFTH COURSELamb,Mint SauceRoast Ducling,Apple SauceSirloin of Beef ,Charteau PotatoesGreen PeaCreamed PotatoesBoiled RiceParmentier & Boiled New PotatoesTENTH COURSEWaldorf PuddingPeaches in Chartreuse JellyChocolate and Vanilla EclairsFrench Ice cream

Cream of barley

Waldorf pudding

Here are a few names of the people on the Titanic and information about them.

Mr. Albert Francis Caldwell was travelling to Roseville, Illinois, America with his wife and ten month old baby, Alden. The family were travelling through Europe and at Naples they saw a sign the hotel they were staying in advertising the sailing of the new White Star Line ship titanic. Unable to make a reservation In the hotel, they travelled on to London and bought their tickets at the White Star Line office.

Mr. Albert Francis Caldwell.

Mr. Austin Partner.

Mr. Austin Partner was travelling alone to Toronto, Canada. Mr. Partner had travelled to Canada 17 times. He lived with his wife and two boys, ages nine and twelve, in Surrey, England.

Mr. Caldwell survived

Sadly Mr. Partner drowned

Mrs. Edward Ernest Nye (Elizabeth Ramell ) Mrs. Ernest was travelling alone to East Orange, New Jersey alone. She was returning to her home after a long visit with her family in England where she had mourned the death of her husband. “Lizzie”, as she was called , had suffered three terrible tragedies in her life. In 1902 her first love has been washed off a pier and drowned , in 1906 her nine-month old baby died and in 1911 her husband died.

Mrs. Edward Ernest Nye survived.

One man, Daniel Buckley, disguised himself as a woman to get on one of the lifeboats. He survived the disaster and settled in Manhattan, America where he worked in a hotel. Then he got a job in the army in World War 1, but sadly he got killed in France while trying to rescue an injured solider.

Daniel Buckley survived

Captain Edward John Smith, the oldest captain of the company White Star line, was transferred from the Olympic to take command of the Titanic. Henry Tingle Wild also came from the Olympic to take the place of Chief Mate. The titanic’s previously assigned Chief Mate and first officer, William McMaster Murdoch and Charles Lightoller, were bumped down to ranks of B First and Second Officer respectfully.

William McMaster Murdoch

Charles Lightoller

Captain Edward Smith

Henry Tingle Wilde

1. The Titanic has two sister ships called The Britannic and the Olympic.

2. A first class ticket cost €200 back then but now it would cost about €40,000.

3. The Titanic struck an iceberg at 11:40 am on April 14th, 1912 and didn’t sink until two and a half hours later.

4. The Titanic sank 12,500 feet below sea level.

5. The wreck of the Titanic was found on the 1st September, 1985.

Facts about the Titanic

Facts about the lifeboats Not only were there

not enough lifeboats to save everyone on board, most of lifeboats that were launched off the Titanic were not filled up with people. For instance, the first lifeboat to launch, 7 boats from the starboard side only carried 24 people, although it could hold up to 65 passengers. However it was lifeboat 1 that carried the fewest people- only 7 crew and 5 passengers got on despite having the capacity to carry 40.

Mummy’s Curse, Did you know?

A man by the name of William. T Stead managed to smuggle a mummy called Ikhnaton on board the Titanic. It was known to curse the person who owned it. It was rumoured that it had in fact sank the Titanic.

Iceberg!

Typically, about one-tenth of an iceberg is above water level with the rest of it hidden below. This makes icebergs hard to see, especially when rough waves hide the upper part, this may have happened on the Titanic voyage.

Music on Titanic

The Titanic had two groups of musicians: a five-person band who played concerts and a trio who played in a reception room outside the first- class restaurant. The bandleader, Wallace Hartley gathered the two groups together to calm the passengers by playing as the ship went down. All eight musicians lost their lives in the disaster.

Building the titanic

Construction took place at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. It took three years to build and took around 3,000 workers. Harland & Wolff were the company that built the Titanic and was owned by J.P Morgan of White Star Line. It cost $7.5 million to build and was the most luxurious ship of its time.

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