Titanic

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I NS I D E T HI S I S S U E :

THE TALE OF THE TITANIC

The Floating Palace
Getting Ready

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The Crew of the Titanic

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The Voyage Begins
Another Bad Omen

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The Stairway to Heaven
Titanic (Warnings of Disaster)

The White Star Dream Ship

What Happened After
Titanic WentDown?
Launching of The Lifeboats

At 11:40 p.m. on
April 14th, 1912, a
tragic event occurred
that will no doubt
change history. The
Titanic, pride of the
White Star Line and
the largest, most
fabulous ship afloat,
struck an iceberg. In
less than three hours
1, 502 people were
taken to a watery
grave in the worst

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The Amazing Rescue
Iceberg
A SinkingFeeling
How The Unsinkable Sank
The Largest Ship Goes Down

Disaster at Sea

People Who Died On the
Titanic

To The Lifeboats

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What Happened To the
Millionaires’ Captain?
The Unsinkable Molly
Brown

THE TITANIC, “THE SHIP OF DREAMS”, OR WAS IT
THE
SHIP

A Ticket For Disaster!

maritime disaster in history.
The following
Special News
Addition of the
Titanic’s Talewas created by
the best news
reporters there
are. Grade 5B
of White City

School have written
the news with the best
information available.
It is our hope to allow
the reader of this
written work to see
the incredible, tragic
events that occurred
on this cold night on
the Atlantic ocean.

A Terrible Tragedy! By Jordan H.
Last night, April 14, a terrible tragedy
happened on thehigh seas. The Titanic
hit an iceberg and began to sink. It
happened about 11:40 p.m. while most
people were unaware of the icebergs
around them. Captain Smith organized
the crew to get the passengers into the
lifeboats. This was very hard because
there weren’t enough boats. The lights
went out at 2:18 AM and the ship began to tear apart. Survivors report seeing the ship break in two,between the
3rd and 4th funnels. Some swimmers

Titanic Sweethearts
Bringing Back Bodies

“THE SHIP OF NIGHTMARES”?
NIGHTMARES”?

were crushed. All the people who were still
trapped on the ship either jumped into the
water or went down with the ship. Finally,
the Carpathia came close enough to rescue
the people on the lifeboats. Senator Fletcher
was one of those rescued. “We partiallyrowed and she partially came some of the
way. We saw her at a distance. She stopped
and we surmised that she was then picking
up a boat. I think we were about the 4th or
5th to be picked up,” he reported. Survivor
Mary Davis Wilburn said, “ The dead came
up holding children in their arms. The poor

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S P E C IA L P O INT S O F
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The Titanic weighed over 53, 000 tons.

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Fourteen years ago a novel called the
“Futility” was released about a ship
called the “Titan”. This ship was
unsinkable and hit an iceberg on the way
to North America. Many people in the
novel died because the ship did not have
enough life-boats.

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In 1912, the Titanic cost $7.5 million to
build.

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The Titanic along with theOlympia are
the largest manmade objects ever moved.

people never had a chance.” In total
1517 people died and 706 people
were saved. Everybody thought that
the Titanic was unsinkable but were
they right?

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The Floating Palace
The Titanic is one of the most famous historical ships in the world; it is about the
largest object ever to be moved.
Twomen, who were workers on building the
Titanic, were killed accidentally.
The Titanic had three anchors- one on each
side of the ship and one right in the center
front of the ship.
If the Titanic had not dropped its anchors it
would have floated away.
Once the ship was done they had bright red
rockets to tell the boats to stay away from the
launching area of the Titanic.
The White Stare...