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    The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City in 1912. She was considered unsinkable and only carried enough lifeboats for half the passengers and crew because lifeboats took up deck space and were thought only necessary to rescue other ships. On the night of April 14th, she struck an iceberg and began taking on water, sinking within hours and resulting in the loss of over 1,500 lives due to the lack of lifeboats.

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    The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City in 1912. She was considered unsinkable and only carried enough lifeboats for half the passengers and crew because lifeboats took up deck space and were thought only necessary to rescue other ships. On the night of April 14th, she struck an iceberg and began taking on water, sinking within hours and resulting in the loss of over 1,500 lives due to the lack of lifeboats.

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    The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City in 1912. She was considered unsinkable and only carried enough lifeboats for half the passengers and crew because lifeboats took up deck space and were thought only necessary to rescue other ships. On the night of April 14th, she struck an iceberg and began taking on water, sinking within hours and resulting in the loss of over 1,500 lives due to the lack of lifeboats.

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    In the newspaper article the writer reports on how the Titanic, a cruise ship, sank on her

    first voyage.

    The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912

    On April 10, 1912, the Titanic, largest ship afloat, left Southampton, England on her maiden
    voyage to New York City. The White Star Line had spared no expense in assuring her luxury.
    A legend even before she sailed, her passengers were a mixture of the world’s wealthiest
    basking in the elegance of first class accommodations and immigrants packed into steerage.

    She was touted as the safest ship ever built, so safe that she carried only 20 lifeboats –
    enough to provide accommodation for only half her 2,200 passengers and crew. This
    discrepancy rested on the belief that since the ship’s construction made her “unsinkable”,
    her lifeboats were necessary only to rescue survivors of other sinking ships. Additionally,
    lifeboats took up valuable deck space.

    Four days into her journey, at 11:40P.M. on the night of April 14, she struck an iceberg. Her
    fireman compared the sound of the impact to “tearing of calico*, nothing more.” However,
    the collision was fatal and the icy water soon poured through the ship.

    It became obvious that many would not find safety in a lifeboat. Each passenger was issued
    a life jacket but life expectancy would be short when exposed to water four degrees below
    freezing. As the forward portion of the ship sank deeper, passengers scrambled to the stern.
    John Thayer witnessed the sinking from a lifeboat. “We could see groups of almost fifteen
    hundred people still aboard, clinging in clusters or bunches, like swarming bees; only to fall
    in masses, pairs or singly, as the great after part of the ship, two hundred and fifty feet of it,
    rose into the sky, till it reached a sixty-five or seventy degree angle.” The great ship slowly
    slid beneath the water two hours and forty minutes after collision.

    The next morning, the liner Carpathia rescued 705 survivors. One thousand five hundred
    and twenty-two passengers and crew were lost. Subsequent inquiries attributed the high
    loss in life to an insufficient number of lifeboats and inadequate training in their use.

    *calico = type of cloth


    Questions:
    1. From the second paragraph, give two reasons why the Titanic only carried 20 lifeboats.
    ___________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________________
    (2 marks)

    2. In paragraph one, the writer contrasts the wealthy passengers with the poor ones. Pick
    out two phrases from this paragraph which show this contrast.
    ___________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________________
    (2 marks)

    3. In paragraph three we are told that when the ship struck the iceberg, the fireman on
    board compared the sound to “the tearing of calico”. Explain what this phrase implies about
    how serious the collision sounded to the fireman.
    ___________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________________
    (2 marks)

    4. In paragraph four, an eyewitness in a lifeboat uses a simile to describe the people left on
    board as the ship sinks.

    a) Write down the simile*


    ___________________________________________________________________________
    (1 mark)

    b) Explain the effect this simile has on the reader.


    ___________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________________

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