THE TITANIC: A
tragic story
The
Titanic was the largest passenger ship in the world when it was built in 1912
in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was like a floating town with passengers from
all social classes. Third-class passengers paid between 3and 8 pounds for a
one-way ticket to America. First class passengers paid 30 pounds. The Titanic’s
first voyage was from Southampton in England, to New York City, USA. The ship
left on 10 April 1912 but never arrived at her destination.
On April 14th, four days after
leaving England, the Titanic was in the North Atlantic. The sea was calm but
visibility was low. At 11.40pm, a lookout saw a large iceberg near the ship. 37
seconds later, the Titanic hit the iceberg and water entered the ship. At first
the passengers didn’t panic…two hours and 40 minutes later, at 2.20am, the
Titanic sank. Of the 2.224 people on board, only 710 survived: there were no
enough lifeboats. Most survivors were women, children and the rich: 60% of
first-class passengers survived. But only 42% of second-class and less than 25%
of third-class passengers survived. The last survivor of the Titanic died in
2009 aged 96. Her name was Millvina Dean and she was two months old when she
was rescued from the ship.
100 years
after the Titanic tragedy, the world’d most famous ship still fascinates us.
The wreck of the Titanic was found in 1985 about 4 km under the sea. James
Cameron made his 1997 film, Titanic, using real images of the wreck. It was the
highest-grossing film of the all time until Avatar (2009).
Visitors
can learn about the Titanic at the new visitor centre n Belfast, Northern
Ireland. It’s a giant museum with four wings the shape o Titanic’s hull and
it’s built on the site where the Titanic first
entered the water.
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