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The Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from England to New York on April 15, 1912, causing one of the worst maritime disasters in history. Though touted as unsinkable, the Titanic began taking on water after colliding with the iceberg and sank within hours, resulting in over 1,500 deaths. Many passengers initially did not grasp the severity of the situation as the ship went down. Not enough lifeboats were available, and many lost their lives as the Titanic sank beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic.

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Short Story of The Titanic: Www.5pe Rcangol - Hu

The Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from England to New York on April 15, 1912, causing one of the worst maritime disasters in history. Though touted as unsinkable, the Titanic began taking on water after colliding with the iceberg and sank within hours, resulting in over 1,500 deaths. Many passengers initially did not grasp the severity of the situation as the ship went down. Not enough lifeboats were available, and many lost their lives as the Titanic sank beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic.

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Short story of the Titanic

On April 15, 1912, one of the deadliest maritime


disaster in history occurred. At 2:45 am on April
15; 5 days after its original departure from
Liverpool, England, the Titanic struck a large
iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

The ship Titanic was the second in a three ship set;


the Olympic, Titanic, and Britannica.

She was 300 yards long, and weighed several


hundreds of thousands of pounds. The great ship,
made mostly of metal, was thought to be
unsinkable.

Then the impossible happened. Captain Edward John Smith had altered the Titanic’s course slightly
to the south, hoping to avoid the icefields that had been spotted and reported by other ships.
Unfortunately, the change in course didn’t help much. In the late hours of April 14, the Titanic collided
with a large iceberg.

Upon striking the berg, the Titanic's flood compartments, made for just such an occasion, began to fill
with water. The titanic could have stayed afloat if only 4 of the compartments were flooded, but the
water quickly filled 6, making the bow sink slowly into the 28 °F degree (-2° Celsius degree) water.
Many passengers were actually spotted playing soccer with the chunks of ice, unaware of the
danger posed to them.

There wasn’t a rush to get into the lifeboats at first, because passengers would rather stay on the
warm ship, than go out into the cold and the unknown of the sea in a small boat. The first of the 20
lifeboats simply left with 28 people aboard, although they were designed to hold 65 passengers.

When the danger became apparent, 3rd class passengers were locked down into their 3rd class
area, unable to escape to the safety of a lifeboat. 1 st and 2nd class passengers got to the lifeboats
quicker and easier, because they had boats on their decks. The stewards and stewardesses didn’t
lock the 3rd class passengers because they wanted them to die. They locked them until they were
given orders. Once the orders were given to let the women and children out first and not let any men
out, they unlocked the doors, but had a hard time getting just the women and children out. Desperate
men actually dressed as women so they would be allowed to enter a lifeboat. There are
undisclosed rumors, still to this day, that say the Titanic's crew shot passengers who wanted a
lifeboat. The lifeboats were picked up by the Carpathia.

This is where the Titanic's journey ends. She soon went down "head-first" into the icy depths.
Hundreds perished that night, men, women, children, even dogs. One of the passengers describes
the ride down with the sinking ship "like an elevator ride". The survivors recall that there were so
many dead, they could hardly row through the bodies. Out of the 1523 people in the water, 7 were
found alive. Out of the 2228 passengers aboard the ship only 705 survived. All of the men in the
engine room died.

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On April 17, 1912 the 705 survivors finally reached their destination of New York City. The Carpathia
arrived at 9:35 p.m. and started to unload the survivors. Interviewers swarmed the passengers asking
them what had happened. All of them agreed that their lives would never be the same again.

deadly - halálos maritime disaster – tengeri


katasztrófa to occur – megesik, megtürténik to
strike, struck, struck - ütődik iceberg - jéghegy
unsinkable - elsüllyeszthetetlen impossible -
lehetetlen to alter – megváltozat course - útvonal
slightly - enyhén to avoid – elkerül, kikerül ice
field – jég mező to be spotted – észre véve lenni
to be reported – jelentve lenni to collide with –
összeötközik valamivel compartment - rekesz to
stay afloat – tengeren/vízen maradni bow – hajó
orra to sink - elsüllyed passenger - utas to play
soccer - focizni chunk of ice – nagy jág darab
unaware of … - nincs tudatában annak, hogy …
rush – ruhanás, sietség lifeboat - mentőcsónak
unknown - ismeretlen aboard - fedélzeten to
become apparent – nyilvánvalóvá válik to be
locked down into – bezárva lenni valahova to be
unable to escape – nem képes elmenekülni deck
- fedélzet to be given orders – utasítást/parancsot kap to
have a hard time doing something – nehéz dolga van
desperate - kétségbeesett to dress as a woman – nőnek
öltözött to be allowed to - meg van engedve, hogy …
crew - legénység to be picked up by - felvéve lenni
valaki által
icy depth – jeges mélység
to perish – elpusztul, elvész
to describe - leír survivor -
túlélő to recall - felidéz to
row through - átevez
destination – úticél

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