Titanic

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Khimki
Moscow region

1912 in Belfast Northern Ireland. It was the biggest ship

in the world- 24,900 tons. It was 265 metres long, and 28 metres across. It could go at 46 kilometres an hour, so it was one of the fastest ships in the world, too.

company "Harland and Wolf" on 31 May, 1911. The Following

ten months it was beside building wall. Walking test of the "Titanic" were completed on 1 April, 1912, and on April 3 liner arrived in Sautgempton. A week later it went to New York.

of three football fields. Everyone was very proud of the

Titanic. They thought it was the best and the safest ship in history.

going to happen.

Higher up in the ship, two sailors- Fleet and Lee-

looked out at the black sea and sky. Suddenly at 11:40 p.m. Fleet saw something in front of the ship. It was an iceberg. “Iceberg! Iceberg!”- he said on the telephone. “There` s an iceberg in front of the ship.”

watched, the iceberg came nearer and nearer. It was very

huge. Then , slowly, the ship went left, and the iceberg went along the right of the ship. Fleet and Lee watched. Their mouths opened. They heard a noise, and the ship moved a little. Then the iceberg went away into the black night.
The Titanic was sinking.

people; but there were 2207 people on the ship. So

for nearly half of the people on the ship, there was no lifeboat. The lifeboats were on the Boat Desk near the first and second class passengers. But there were no lifeboats on E Desk, for the third class passengers. Eighteen of the Titanic` s twenty lifeboats went into the sea. Lifeboat D went into the sea at 2:05 a.m. After that, there were only two lifeboats on the ship. But there were 1600 people.

first and second class passengers, but later on, some third

class passengers got into the boats, too.

Water came back along the ship, faster and faster. As

the front of the ship went up, up into the air. Some people ran to the back of the ship; some people went into the sea.

m. She came very quickly towards the Titanic. At 2:35

a.m. Captain Roston saw a green light over the sea. At 2:45 a.m. his sailors saw an iceberg.” We are going very fast, sir, it isn` t safe,” a sailor said.” Don` t stop. We must get there quickly. The Titanic is sinking.” Captain Roston answered.

had 675 people from the Titanic. 1503 people died.Today, because

of the Titanic, ships listen to the radio all the time, night and day. Ships have lifeboats for all their passengers. Aeroplanes watch the ice, and tell ships about the iceberg.

human victim were terrible, and if liner possible to change

others, those human lives to return impossible.

ship. All this time they played tunes, which earlier raised

the mood and created the situation of the peacefull and carelessness, but presently helped to bridge over feeling of the awe. The music, which they played, was their requiem. It gave them right to be brought on a list of the heroes forever.