Blog #70 – What year did the Titanic sink?  Find the Titanic web site and list 5 interesting facts about the Titanic’s sinking.

The titanic sunk on april 12th, 1912.  In total there was 1316 passengers and only 498 survived. There was 913 crew members in total and only 215 survived. That equals 2229 passengers and 713 survivers all together. This was apparently Captain E. J. Smith’s fault for the sinking of Titanic. He had to get to New York in Record time. Captain Smith Ignored 7 ice berg warnings from his crew and other ships. If he had called for the ship to slow down, the Titanic disaster wouldn’t have happened. People in 1912 believed that 70, 000 tonnes of  steel would be unsinkable. The shipbuilders Harland and Wolff insist that the Titanic was never advertised as an unsinkable ship. They claim that the ‘unsinkable’ myth was the result of people’s interpretations of articles in the Irish News and the Shipbuilder magazine. They also claim that the myth grew after the disaster. The maiden voyage of the Titanic had attracted a number of rich passengers. A first class parlour suite cost £870 while a first class berth cost £30. There were 325 first class passengers on board – 175 men, 144 women and 6 children. 202 first class passengers survived – 57 men, 140 women and 5 children. One of the factors that makes the sinking of the Titanic so memorable is the fact that lives were needlessly lost. There were not enough lifeboats on board to hold all the passengers and crew and when the lifeboats were launched they were not filled to capacity.

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