Thursday, April 14, 2016

Tragedy of Titanic

                                                             Tragedy of Titanic

RMS Titanic is the largest ship built in the early 1909 and starts its journey from Southampton to New York on April 10,1912.Under the guidance of Captain Edward smith,Titanic starts it journey by carrying 2200 passengers and Crew.It travels through Britain,Ireland and France towards New York

Four days after the journey Titanic collides an Iceberg on April 14,1912.The officer on board had only 37 seconds to react before ship hits the Iceberg.
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Titanic receives six warnings of Icebergs on April 14,1912 but was travelling with her maximum Speed.Titanic was designed by Thomas Andrews and it can stay afloat with four compartments flooded but not more than Four compartments.Later crew realize that the ship will sink they used wireless Messages and by lightning crackers.Californian was the nearest ship which could have saved the passengers but had failed to hear the titanic distress signals because  radio operator was off duty.

The Carpathia reached the scene exactly three hours after the sinking.More than 700 passengers were saved.By the time Californian reached the scene,the titanic went down into the Atlantic ocean and there were only bodies floating in  the water.Most of the Survivors were women and children.

Titanic failed to carry enough lifeboats and an approximately of 1500 peoples suffer death which was one of the worst disaster in the history.

The Wreck of Titanic was finally located in 1985 which lies at the depth of 3 miles at the bottom of Atlantic.

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