The Titanic The Titanic was the biggest ship in the world. Some people thought she was - PowerPoint Presentation

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The Titanic was the biggest ship in the world. Some people thought she was the best ship ever built. She was said to be too strong to sink. She was

unsinkable

– or so they believed!!Slide4

The Titanic was built in

Belfast

by the

White Star Line Shipping Company

.

It set sail from Southampton in England on the

10

th

April 1912.

More passengers boarded the ship in

France

and Queenstown in Ireland. It was on its way to New York.

Queenstown was in

County Cork

. It is now called

Cobh

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The journeySlide6

The Titanic was a floating palace. She was one of the first ships with a pool and she had beautiful gold chandeliers. Because of this many very wealthy people travelled on board the Titanic. They stayed in the upper deck, which was called

The First Class

. While the poorer passengers and the crew stayed below deck in

Third Class

.

When the passengers began their journey to

New York City

, it was like a wonderful party on board. Everybody was having loads of fun. They thought they were making history – they were!Slide7

First Class

Around 325 first class passengers were on board.

Around 202of first class passengers survived

.

Titanic’s first class passengers were rich and upper class.

There were 39 private suites on the bridge deck and 9 on the shelter deck. The suites included bathrooms, private toilets and had up to 5 different rooms.

There were also 350 smaller first class cabins.

The most expensive first class ticket cost £870 (around £300,000 in today's money).

All the rooms were lavishly decorated.

First class passengers had access to all the boats facilities.

First class passengers were accompanied by personal staff such as maids, nannies, chauffeurs and cooks.

First class on Titanic was a whole new level of trans-Atlantic travel.Slide8

The Grand StaircaseSlide9

Second Class

Around 285 second class passengers were on board.

Around 118 of second class passengers survived

.

Second class accommodation was found over 7 decks.

There was a second class dining room which could seat over 2000 people. The room was very elegant and there was a piano to entertain diners.

Second class

rooms had two to four beds.

Second class rooms had shared bathrooms.

Second class on Titanic was the same as first class standard on any other ship at the time.Slide10

Third

Class

Around 706 third class

passengers

were on board.

Around 178 of third

class

passengers survived.

Third class travel was much less luxurious than second class but was still luxurious compared to other ships at the time.

Third class passengers were called ‘steerage passengers’.

Many third class passengers were emigrants travelling to the United States from Ireland and Scandinavia. There were 33 nationalities represented in the passenger lists.

The cheapest third class ticket was £3.

Third class passengers were not allowed to go to the first and second class areas of the ship.

There was a third class general meeting room and a smoking room.

The third class dining room could seat 470 passengers in each of 3 sittings.

Third class passengers slept on bunk beds in crowded cabins of 4 to 6 people.

There was 2 baths for the whole of the third class passengers!Slide11

Lifeboats

There were not enough lifeboats on board to hold all the passengers and crew.

When the lifeboats were launched , they were not full.

There were 20 lifeboats enough for 1178 people but there were over 2000 people on the boat.

Originally 32 lifeboats were supposed to be on Titanic but it was reduced to 20 as the deck was felt to be too cluttered.

Titanic also carried 3500 lifebelts and 48 life rings but these were useless in the icy water.

Most people did not drown but froze to death

.

Lots of people thought that the call to the lifeboats was a drill so stayed inside rather than going up to the freezing deck

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By the

14th of April

, 

Titanic was in the middle of the

Atlantic Ocean. The weather was clear. That night, the stars glistened against the cold, dark sky.

Shortly before midnight, a sailor spotted something out in front of the ship. He couldn’t really see it but he knew it could only be one thing –

an iceberg

!

An Iceberg is a huge piece of floating ice. It is much bigger beneath the water than it is on top. It can really damage a ship if it crashes into it.Slide13

It was too late for the Titanic to turn away and it hit the iceberg. The iceberg ripped a huge hole in the side of the ship and the lower parts of the ship began to fill with icy water.

The nose of the Titanic began to disappear beneath the water. The stern, or the back of the ship began to rise high into the air. In a few hours the ship would sink. The crew set off

flares

to let other ships know that it needed help.Slide14

Sailors on other ships saw the flares but thought they were fireworks

set off during a party on the

ship so they sailed on by.

The

Titanic crew began trying to save people.

Some had come out on deck when the ship hit the iceberg, but many were still below deck. They didn’t think there was anything to worry about.

The band began to play music to calm the passengers.Slide15

The sailors began to put people in the

lifeboats.

Women and children went

first.

But there was not enough lifeboats for everybody on board. Also, in the panic of the sinking, some lifeboats were lowered into the water with

empty seats

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By the time all

the lifeboats had been lowered, there were still 1,500 people on board.Slide16

By 2

.00

a.m. the passengers still on the sinking ship heard a terrible sound.

The Titanic was ripping apart!

People started to jump off the ship into the icy water. The Titanic had disappeared

beneath the Atlantic Ocean by 2.20 a.m. on the

15

th

of April 1912

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The Titanic sank 2 miles to the bottom

of the Atlantic Ocean. Most of it’s passengers and crew died.

Captain Smith went down with his ship.

The people

who were in the lifeboats were rescued by another ship called the

Carpathia

.

Nobody knew where in the Atlantic Ocean the Titanic was. It was not found until 71 years after it sank.Slide18

A BOY'S DREAM

As a kid, scientist

Robert Ballard

was interested in shipwrecks. He especially loved reading about 

the

Titanic. "My lifelong dream," he says, "was to find this great ship."

Ballard became an ocean explorer when he grew up. He visited underwater mountains in the middle of the Atlantic. He found giant worms that live in the Pacific. And he never forgot his boyhood dream—to find the 

Titanic

.

The task seemed impossible. Some people said 

The Titanic

 had been crushed. Others thought she had broken into little pieces. Everyone agreed the ship was far too deep to reach.

But Ballard was determined. He took ships to where The Titanic had sunk. They used special tools to look around the ocean floor. For weeks, they found nothing.

Then they sent down an

underwater craft

called 

Argo

. Its cameras took videos of the ocean floor and sent them up to the ships.Slide19

FOUND IT!

Argo

 searched for several days. Still nothing. Ballard was sure he had failed. Shortly after midnight on September 1, he decided to get some sleep. He really needed it.

Barely an hour later, someone woke him up. Metal objects were showing up on the video screen. These things could only have come from a boat.

Soon the team spotted a huge ship engine

. They had found the Titanic

!

Over the next few days, 

Argo

 circled the

wreck.

Ballard almost couldn't believe what he saw. Titanic's bow, or front, was stuck in mud. Yet the ship still looked huge.Ballard also found many sad reminders of the

Titanic's passengers. He saw beds, suitcases, cups, and countless shoes. It was almost like visiting a sunken museum.

Before leaving, Ballard wanted to honor the tragic ship. He left a plaque to remember the people who had died. Aside from that, he left everything exactly the way he found it.Slide20
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