In 1912 an american shipping company launched a new ship called the "Titanic". It was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of that time. It weighed 46,000 tons and could earry about 2,200 passengers. Experts said that nothing could sink it. It was definitly unsinkable. On 14 April 1912, the ship sailed on its first voyage across the North Atlantic from Southampton in England to New York in the United States, with 2,224 passengers men, women, and children. On 15 April, just before midnight, the ship struck an iceberg. The iceberg tore a great hole in the ship's side, and the unsinkable "Titanic" began to sink.
There was great alarm on board. Warning bells rang out. Everyone rushed to the lifeboats, but there was not enough room for them all. There was room for only 1,178 passengers. The lifeboats took mostly the women and children. It was a terrible scene. Wives were weeping because they had to leave their husbands to drowD. Children were crying because they had to say goodbye to their fathers. The men has to remain on the ship. The "Titanic" sent out signals for help, but no help came. Another ship, the "Californian", was only twenty miles away, but her radio operator was asleep and did not hear the distress signals.
In the early hours of the morning the "Titanic" sank, while her band was playing bravely on deck. Twenty minutes later, another liner, the 'Carpathia', arrived on the scene and helped to rescue the survivors from the icy water. But of the 2,224 passengers, only about 700 survived.
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