By Tom Horgan
Who built the Titanic
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 Harland and Wolf built the Titanic from 19081909.
 They built the Titanic in Belfast harbour.
 Thomas Andrews designed the Titanic.
 William Pirrie was the chairperson of Haarland
and Wolf.
 It is 883 feet long and has nine decks.
 J. Bruce Ismay was Chairperson of White Star
Lines, the owners of Titanic
How Titanic was built
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 The Titanic was built in Belfast harbour.
 They built an extension on to the harbour.
 It weighed 67,ooo tonnes fully laden
 It was built by hand.
 They installed two engines the size of a two storey
house.
 Some workers became deaf from the noise.
 It took millions of man hours to build it.
White Star Line VS Cunard
Line
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 White Star Line and the Cunard Line were big rivals
 White Star Line built the Titanic and Olympic.
 The Cunard Line built the Mauritania and Lusitania.
 Both companies were in a race to build big, fast and
luxurious passenger ships.
 Both companies employed thousands of people in
their shipyards.
Titanic facts
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 It was the first ship to have a swimming pool on it
 In Lahardane parish 14 people went on the Titanic
and 11 drowned . There's now a memorial park to
remember them.
 It cost 7.5 million pounds to build.
 The band kept playing when the ship was sinking.
 It was known as the “Unsinkable” and “The Floating
Palace”.
Titanic facts
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 The Titanic top speed was 23 knots.
 Third class passengers could here the roar of the
engine sometimes.
 The iceberg was 100 feet tall.
 3500 bags of mail was lost.
 The Titanic's lookout was not equipped with
binoculars.
 The Titanic will rot in 20 years.
 It took 2 years to build
First Class
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 First class passengers were among the most famous
people in the world.
 First class passengers could go to the gym,
swimming pool, barbers, cafes, squash court, library,
reading and writing rooms.
 There was a world of difference between first and third class
 First class people were sometimes called new money people.
Second Class
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 Second class passengers were mostly lawyers
teachers and builders.
 Lots of them were going to America to start a new
life.
 Second class passengers were mainly professional
and skilled people.
 As can be seen second class passengers had a lot less
space than first class.
Third Class
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 Third class passengers had the most difficult
conditions to endure, but still the standards were
higher than other ships.
 A lot of these people were escaping lives of poverty
back home in Ireland.
 Third class cabins had 4-6 bunk beds.
 A lot of the ladies hoped to get work as housemaids.
The Journey
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 The Titanic started its journey in Southampton
which is in the south of England.
 It picked up people in Cherbourg and in Cobh,
Co.Cork. A boat called a tender brought the
passengers from Cobh as the Titanic was too big to
enter the harbour.
 It sailed through calm waters for the first two days.
 On the third day the lookouts saw icebergs ahead.
The Sinking
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 An iceberg struck the Titanic on the starboard side at
11:40 pm on April the 14th.
 Ten minutes later water had risen 14 feet in the front
of the ship.
 At 12:25 lifeboats were loading passengers.
 At 2:05 am the last lifeboat was launched leaving
1500 people still on board.
 Around 2:20 am the Titanic sank . The “unthinkable”
had happened to the “unsinkable”.
The Sinking
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 The Carpathia was 58 miles southeast of the
Titanic when she picked up the distress calls.
 She immediately sailed at full steam ahead.
 When the Carpathia arrived at the scene the
Titanic was at the bottom of the ocean. She
picked up 705 survivors and sailed for New
York.
People involved
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 In the story of the Titanic there were many people
involved. It took a lot of money to build this ship.
White Star Line built it. Thousands of men worked
in the Harland and Wolf shipyard in Belfast. In total
there were 2227 passengers on board not counting
staff. After the tragedy there were many more
people whose lives were effected by the loss of loved
ones.
Who was at fault?
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 It is hard to blame any one person for what
happened to the Titanic.
 I think it was the Captain’s fault because:
 He forgot to do a lifeboat drill
 He went too fast on a dangerous night
 And he should have ordered more lifeboats on the
ship.
The Ending
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 What will happen now for the Titanic ? Some say it
will be raised from the sea, others say it will be left to
rot . But we all know it will be remembered for
centuries to come.
THE END