The Titanic Disaster

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The Titanic Disaster

• By Year 2 Owls Class

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Building the Titanic

• The Titanic was finished in 1912.
• It was the longest ship in the world in those
  days.
• When it was launched 1000s of people were waving
  .
• It was built in Belfast and was
• designed by Thomas Andrews.
• It was as long as three football fields and as
  tall as an 11-story building.
• There was room for more than 2,500 people on
  board.
• Page designed by Grace

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Thomas Andrews

• Thomas Andrews designed the
  Titanic. He tried to make the ship the most
  comfortable in the world and he tried to make the
  ship as safe as possible.
• Page designed by Eloise

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Safety

• The hull had 2 layers of metal.
• It had 16 safety compartments to stop it getting
  flooded.
• People thought the Titanic was unsinkable.
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Titanic crew

• On board were 891 crew. In the kitchen stewards
  and stewardesses collected the food. A few
  hundred stewards and stewardesses looked
• after the passengers. The captains name was
  Captain Smith.
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Wireless radio room

• There were two operators in the wireless room.
• They slept in bunk beds in part of the room.
  They used a machine and sent messages in morse
  code.
• They received messages that there were icebergs
  about.
• The rich passengers sent messages to their
  friends and family using the wireless.
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Life boats

• There were sixteen life boats on the Titanic.
  There werent enough life boats for everyone on
  board. They didnt think it would be a problem
  because they thought it was unsinkable.
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First class passengers

• In the first class cabins they had shower rooms
  and their servants slept near them. The first
  class passengers looked very posh. They wore
  very big hats in those days.
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2 Class cabins

• The 2nd class passengers had their own cabins in
  the middle of the ship. They had wash stands and
  bunk beds in their cabins.
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3rd Class Cabins

• The 3rd class passengers had bunk beds to sleep
  on. There were some family rooms but the rest of
  the 3rd class were separated.
• The women slept at the back of the ship and the
  men at the front of the ship in dormitories.
• Page designed by Thomas

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Restaurants

• First class people
• had there own dining room and so did the
  second and third class.
• In the first class dining room they had
  fresh flowers on the table. The first class
  dining room was the biggest and the best.
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The food for the passengers and crew

• There was lots of food on board to feed the
  passengers and crew. There were 36000 oranges
  and tea. There was lots of milk and butter. There
  was a baker. The ship carried 7000 lettuces and
  3000 kg of tomatoes.
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Entertaining the passengers

• The first class passengers could swim in the
  swimming pool.
• Also they could send messages to their friends
  and family in the radio room.
• They could eat and drink in the café or several
  restaurants.
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Exercising on board

• There was a gym. In
• the gym was a mechanical horse and there was a
  mechanical camel. The passengers could also walk
  on the deck. Passengers could play squash in the
  squash court.
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The night of the Titanics disaster

• One night in the voyage a very sad thing
  happened it was a waste of English steel. The
  Titanic collided with a iceberg. It sank on
  14th April 1912.
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Saving the passengers

• As the Titanic only had 16 lifeboats many
  people survive. The crew helped the women and
  children into the lifeboats first. More of the
  1st class and 2nd class passengers were saved
  than the poor 3rd class passengers.
• Page designed by Kya