I felt the room shake and instantly I jumped up out of my bed and began to look around the room. John was up a few seconds later and began franticly wandering around the room to see what had occurred. “Don’t worry, I’ll go find the source of the problem,” John quickly stated, and with that he left. Moments later John had returned to report that the ship had hit an ice berg but there was nothing to worry about, “not even God could sink the Titanic”, he stated . I felt relieved in one sense but in the other I was nervous and unsure. Stepping outside for a brief second I heard nothing but solemn music sweep the upper deck of the boat. The crisp cool air hit my skin and chills ran up my arm. It was certainly not a night to be out side I thought. …show more content…
There was a little boy by my side who look incredibly cold so I handed him on of my many jackets. He smiled and his mother thanked me. I then looked over to see by forty-seven year old husband ripping a a life vest apart with a pen. Furry hit me, why was he such an idiot ? Now looking back on it I should have listened to my mother when she told me not to marry him, but I was young and he was rich. There was nothing more I need, or so I thought. If I would have never married him, I would have never been in that position in the first place. I stepped out of my trance to hear a man from down the hall calling for all the women and children in our room. So I stood up and began to walk down the now some what slanted hall. John followed quickly behind me. There was a great window at the end of the hall that women and children were to climb out of to get into a life boat number four. John attempted to climb on with me but it was to late. I yelled my goodbye , but I could not see him. Women began to cry for the death that they knew was upon their husbands, but I was silent and still. I let the brisk sea air sweep across my face and did not move. For a brief second I was devastated, but in all actuality I was simply in shock. I could not see the light at the end off the tunnel. I was eighteen, pregnant, and I knew that my husband would die. Maybe it was for the better, but that shall
But nearly as soon as Marion's dreams of sailing became reality, the reality became a nightmare. On the voyage home, a whale rammed the schooner, ripping the seams and sending water into the hold. Before the schooner went down, the captain, al...
Would you risk your life to do something you loved and save someone’s life at the same time? That is what Mr. John Wesley Woodward did as it was explained by Stephanie Jenkins in “Mr. John Wesley Woodward.” Woodward was a cellist on the Titanic when it sank. “R.M.S Titanic,” by Hanson W. Baldwin explains what happened to have caused the ship to sink. Unfortunately, Woodward did not survive. “A History in Numbers,” by Dave Fowler, explains how he could have survived, but Wesley gave up his spot on the lifeboats and gave them to the people that could have kept from the ship sinking; all they had to do was listen.
April 14, 1912, the Titanic set sail for a maiden voyage. Some of the people on board never thought that it would be goodbye forever. The Titanic was heading to New York City from Southampton, England. Why does the Titanic now lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean? Historians believe that the Titanic sank because of human error. They believe that it was Captain Smith, the lookouts in the crows nest, and Thomas Andrews fault.
I am writing my first entry aboard this incredible vessel today, primarily because I have been spending the last three days exploring the sections open to my fellow third-class passengers and I. What I have seen is extraordinary, especially when first boarding the ship. The halls and staircases of the first class section were like nothing I had ever seen before in my life. They were blanketed in luxury from end to end. The first class passengers I had managed to see wore their best garments boarding the ship and were conversing with each other about their rich lives back home. I believe I even saw Mr. John Jacob Astor, a man I had heard much about for his contributions to the American fur trade. I had heard that he would be aboard for the maiden voyage of ...
I rushed out of the bedroom confused. I began to realize what was going on. I ran to where I last saw her and she was not there. Never before I felt my heart sank. My eyes filled with tears. I dropped to my knees and felt the cold white tile she last swept and mopped for my family. I look up and around seeing picture frames of of her kids, grandchildren, and great grandchildren smiling. I turn my head to the right and see the that little statue of the Virgin Mary, the last gift we gave her. I began to cry and walked to my mother hugging her. My father walked dreadfully inside the house. He had rushed my great grandmother to the hospital but time has not on his side. She had a bad heart and was not taking her medication. Later that morning, many people I have never seen before came by to pray. I wandered why this had to happen to her. So much grief and sadness came upon
Imagine you’re peacefully sailing along on a giant cruise liner in the middle of the ocean. But suddenly, you feel a shaking and the boat starts to tip. But how could this be? This boat is supposed to be unsinkable. People run to the far side of the boat, trying to avoid impending doom. Panic sets in aboard the Titanic. There are many theories of the cause of this loss of life, but I believe that the primary cause of catastrophic loss of life on the Titanic was the poor communication between crew members because a critical iceberg warning was never delivered to the captain, the Titanic was traveling at full speed in an ice field, and the captain of the ship was very relaxed about the iceberg, making it not seem like a threat.
We have all heard about the Titanic. Either we have watched the romance movie or done our research in a different way. No matter where we get our information from we know the biggest parts of the tragedy. The ship Titanic crashed into an iceberg on a cold April night on the Atlantic Ocean while sailing its first trip. But haven’t you ever wanted to know more details about? Maybe how the people who were on it and survived? How could the situation be prevented? Couldn’t they have saved more people? Well in the book “A Night to Remember” it has details on the Titanic you have probably never thought of knowing. While reading the first chapter some parts really caught my attention. One was when people felt the jolt from the collision with the ice berg people didn’t suspect what tragedy was to come. A girl named Marguerite Frolicher, who was accompanying her father on a business trip, woke up with a jump since she was half asleep she was thinking about ‘little white lake ferries’ landing sloppily which made her laugh and thought to herself “Isn’t it funny…we’re landing!”. They really did...
The RMS Titanic sunk more than 100 years ago. It was 102 years to be exact. Even after all of this time, we still want to know more. We want to know why it happened or was there any way to avoid the sad ending and many more questions surrounding the RMS Titanic. However, we know one thing for sure: the sinking of the RMS Titanic was the biggest and most tragic event of the 20th century.
The tragic history of the Titanic, the sinking of the “unsinkable” giant of a ship shocked the entire world and contributed to important shifts in the mass consciousness of the people who lived at that period and assessed the achievements of new technologies and their role. However, one would have been hardly able to predict in 1912 that this tragedy, no matter how significant and meaningful, would leave such a deep imprint on the history of human civilization. The continuing interest in the fate of the great vessel has taken the form of various narrations and given rise to numerous myths enveloping the true history and, in this way, often obscuring the facts related to the tragedy. In recent years, this interest has been emphasized by the dramatic discovery of the wreck and examination of its remains. The recovery of artifacts from the Titanic and the exploration of the site where it had sank stimulated new speculations on different issues of the failure to rescue the Titanic and the role of different factors contributing to the disaster. These issues have been traditionally in the focus of discussions that caused controversies and ambiguous interpretations of various facts. They also often overshadowed other parts of the disaster story that were confirmed by statistical data and revealed the impact of social realities. The social stratification of passengers that reflected the social realities of the period and its class interests determined the chances of survival, with most of those perished in the Titanic disaster having been lower class individuals.
The night was tempestuous and my emotions were subtle, like the flame upon a torch. They blew out at the same time that my sense of tranquility dispersed, as if the winds had simply come and gone. The shrill scream of a young girl ricocheted off the walls and for a few brief seconds, it was the only sound that I could hear. It was then that the waves of turmoil commenced to crash upon me. It seemed as though every last one of my senses were succumbed to disperse from my reach completely. As everything blurred, I could just barely make out the slam of a door from somewhere alongside me and soon, the only thing that was left in its place was an ominous silence.
ship, going to America to see my folks. Just a week ago, there I was
Altogether, 705 passengers survived the crash, while 1,517 died. The first class children all survived, but only 97% of women and 32% of men were saved. In second class, all of the children were saved again, but only 86% of women and 8% of men were saved. In third class, 34% of children were saved, while 46% of women and 16% of men were saved. 62% of the first class passengers were saved, 41% of the second class was saved, and only 25% of the third class survived. “The overall survival rate for men was 20%. For women, it was 74%, and for children, 52%” (Encyclopedia Titanica | RMS Titanic Passengers and Crew Research).
ceiling to floor. Before I was sent back to my room, I took a look
Fear has taken a hold of every man aboard this ship, as it should; our luck is as far gone as the winds that led us off course. For nights and days gusts beyond measure have forced us south, yet our vessel beauty, Le Serpent, stays afloat. The souls aboard her, lay at the mercy of this ruthless sea. Chaotic weather has turned the crew from noble seamen searching for glory and riches, to whimpering children. To stay sane I keep the holy trinity close to my heart and the lady on my mind. Desperation comes and goes from the men’s eyes, while the black, blistering clouds fasten above us, as endless as the ocean itself. The sea rocks our wood hull back and forth but has yet to flip her. The rocking forces our bodies to cling to any sturdy or available hinge, nook or rope, anything a man can grasp with a sea soaked hand. The impacts make every step a danger. We all have taken on a ghoulish complexion; the absence of sunlight led the weak souls aboard to fight sleep until sick. Some of us pray for the sun to rise but thunder constantly deafens our cries as it crackles above the mast. We have been out to sea for fifty-five days and we have been in this forsaken storm for the last seventeen.
This process may have been unperceivable to the bridge watch, particularly if it occurred during dark or extreme weather; they would have little notice that the ship was about to sink.” (The Unanswered Loss of). These assumptions are highly probable and a great deal more believable than a monster who could sink