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The RMS TITANIC

The RMS TITANIC was designed in 1908. In 1909 they started to build the RMS TITANIC. They finished the RMS TITANIC in 1911. It was launched into the water on March 31, 1911. Then the ship had to be tugged all the way to a dock near the construction site. When it arrived there after about 20 minutes they brought the RMS TITANIC smoke stacks out and they attached them to a crane then they installed them on the ship. After they were installed they put all the furniture in the ship. Then they had it fitted out to see if it could pass as a luxury cruise liner. The fitting out of the RMS TITANIC took about 5 months.After that the RMS TITANIC was called the ship of dreams. It was also called unsinkable. After the fitting out of the RMS TITANIC the ship went to Southampton dock to get passengers. After the ship was done getting passengers in Southampton it went to Cher berg France to get more passengers. It went to one more place but I am not sure what it is called. By April 10, 1912 the ship had started off into the open seas of the Atlantic Ocean. In the time between April 10-April-13 and parts of April 14 I do not know what happened. What I do know is on April 14, 1912 11:30PM the RMS TITANIC hit an Iceberg. Fredrick Fleet was a crewman on the RMS TITANIC he was in the crows nest when the RMS TITANIC hit the Iceberg. He saw the Iceberg and then he called the Bridge as quick as he could. The bridge picked up the phone and a crew member said “is anyone there” Fredrick Fleet said “Iceberg right ahead”. Then the man that answered the phone ran to the the crew member behind the wheel and said “Hard to Starboard!!!”. After that they also floored the ship into reverse to help slow down the ship so if it hit the Iceberg the ship would not sink as quickly. Also what I read one day was that The RMS TITANIC would have had been better off going head on with the Iceberg because that is how the ship was designed. The ship started to go down by the head also know as the bow of the ship. Captain Edward John Smith went into the officers Headquarters and told the Messenger to send CQD the distress signal because they were sending SOS. After that 1st officer Murdock was thought to have shot himself

Once the water began to get up to the bridge Captain smith was thought to have drowned in the bridge when the windows shattered, They also think that he may of died when Funnel #1 fell on the bridge, They also think that he went up to a life boat with a baby and gave it to an officer but when they looked back he was gone. After that when the ships 2nd smoke stack went under the water the ship began to make thunder noised from the ship beginning to snap because the ships hull was not designed to handle that kind of weight so the ship snapped into 2 separate pieces. Then when the bow section began to sink it pulled the stern section down raising it at almost a 90 degree angle. The stern section just bobbed there for a couple seconds then it sank. The bow section hit the bottom of the ocean going at at least 20 to 30 Knots. The stern had so much air in it when it went below the surface that it tore it up like crazy because the air could not get out quick enough. After the field of people in the water calmed down they began to get the boats ready. There were 20 boats floating near by and only 1 boat went back to see if anybody was still alive only 1 person was still alive and then 2 hours later the CARPATHIA came to get the survivors then they went to New York City and there were thousand of people there to see if there loved ones were still alive. Then a ship went back to get the floating bodies they only got 886 floating bodies out of 1,500 people. The RMS TITANIC was discovered at the bottom of the mid north Atlantic In 1985. The ship was 2 ½ miles below the water.

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