The Sinking of the Titanic

Carlisle built the Titanic (Baldwin, 484), a great passenger liner, for octad million dollars. Its crew claimed, God Himself could not sink this transfer; they believed it was unsinkable. On her maiden voyage, the Titanic carried 2,207 peoplemany of whom were main(prenominal) names at the time, and 706 of whom were immigrantsand $420,000 worth of cargo (Baldwin, 485).

Before it sank, the Titanic trustworthy six separate ice warnings, all of which the crew allow by paying minimal atdecadetion to the icebergs in bargon view of both crew and passengers. One message accepted from the Californian was as follows:

        Californian: [W]e are stuck here, surrounded by ice!

         Titanic: [S]hut up; keep out[Y]ou are jamming my signals.

(Baldwin, 487)

These facts make the sinking of the Titanic even more ironic.

        At 11:40 pm on April 13, 1912 in the cold waters of the noneth Atlantic, the Titanic hit an iceberg and three hundred feet of the ships hull was ripped open. At first, people were not worried. They didnt bother to go on deck, and stewards told the passengers, I dont suppose it is anything more (Baldwin, 487). But then things started looking bad. [W]ater was pouring [in,]in ten minutes there were eight feet of water in [boiler room] No. 6 (Baldwin, 488).

        The Titanic went down head first, upend[ing] to fiftyto threescore degrees (Baldwin, 490-2). When the ship finally sank at 2:20 on the morning of April 14, the Californian stood about ten miles away. During the sinking, the crew of the Californian had ignored rockets fired off by the Titanic because they survey the passengers were celebrating. The only radio operator had been asleep and did not serve to distress signals sent out by the Titanic. First performing ragtime and then religious hymns, the ships band continued passim the...

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