Describing Titanic You Have Been Lucky Enough to Be Invited to the Launch of Titanic in Belfast on 31 May 1911

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Describing Titanic You have been lucky enough to be invited to the launch of Titanic in Belfast on 31 May 1911. Write a recount of your day. Remember to use lots of adjectives in your writing. Don’t forget your punctuation!

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Titanic facts and figures (1 Read each of the facts about Titanic and then answer the questions. Use the boxes for your ) working out and to write your answers.

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Fact: Titanic was huge: 269m long, 28m wide, 32m high (measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge), and weighing more than 47,000 tonnes.

1) A ship from the Cunard line called Lusitania was 241m long. How much longer was Titanic?

Fact: The crew of Titanic comprised 892 members in three departments: the deck department, the engine department, and the stewards’ department.

2) If there were 73 officers and seamen in the deck department, and 325 crew in the engine department, how may were there in the stewards’ department?

Fact: No one knows for sure exactly how many people were on board Titanic for her maiden voyage, because of some confusion over passenger lists and due to the fact that many bodies were not recovered from the sea. The inquiry into the disaster by the British Board of Trade reported that there were 2,224 people on board.

3) According to the British Board of Trade report, 710 people survived. If their numbers are correct, how many died?

4) Using the Board of Trade’s figures, 68% of the passengers and crew died in the tragedy. What percentage survived? © MMXVI The Salariya Book Company Ltd © MMXVI BOOK HOUSE WWW.SALARIYA.COM

Titanic facts and figures (2 The table below gives the breakdown of passengers on board Titanic by class and age/gender,) but some of the information is missing. Using your maths skills, can you complete the information in the table? The figures are based on those from the British Board of Trade report into the tragedy.

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Age / gender Number Number Number Percentage Percentage and Class aboard saved lost saved lost Children First Class 6 1 83% Children Second Class 24 0 Children Third Class 79 27 66% Women First Class 144 4 97% Women Second Class 80 13 14% Women Third Class 165 76 46% Men First Class 175 118 67% Men Second Class 14 154 8% Men Third Class 462 75 84%

Using the table, can you answer these questions?

1) Which group of passengers was the only group to have a 100% survival rate?

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2) Which group of passengers suffered the greatest percentage of deaths? The Salariya Book Company Ltd © MMXVI

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Titanic crew member Job Application Form

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Use this box to tell us about your skills and experience – why would you make a good member of Titanic’s crew?

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Help arrives Imagine that you are aboard one of the lifeboats waiting for help to arrive. How do you feel when you finally see the Carpathia? Emotions that survivors might have been feeling could have included relief, guilt, excitement, exhaustion, and grief. Write either a diary extract or a letter to a loved one from the point of view of a survivor of the disaster.

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