___________________________ _____p By ______________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ __ __ Teaching Cave Times www.TeachingCave.com By C Dillon Worst Ocean Disaster in World’s History Titanic, a ship built in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, was one of three Olympic Class Ocean Liners. Titanic, giant White Star liner sinks As the liner descended to the after collision with an iceberg on her depths of the Atlantic Ocean, passengers maiden voyage and it is believed that little and crew watched on in silence and over 700 have survived. disbelief as their lifeboats floated Tragedy struck in the early hours of aimlessly over the Atlantic. April 15, 1912, when a silhouette of an By 4am, the Carpathia approached iceberg appeared in front of lookouts the spot of the collision and, in order to Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee. Frederick attract the attention of the survivors, the struck three bells and telephoned the crew launched a spectacular array of bridge and watched on as the giant mass of rockets and Roman candles. ice punched holes along the starboard side Over the course of the following of the ship. four hours, lifeboat after lifeboat arrived In the hours that followed, at the Carpathia's side. The Titanic frightened and flustered crew members survivors were still enveloped by shock; started to board women and children on to Captain Rostron noted an atmosphere of the 20 lifeboats required for this stillness that accompanied them, many ‘unsinkable’ ship whilst panic and seemed to have been reduced to spectres pandemonium surrounded them. In an by the experience. "Through it all that effort to keep everyone calm, Titanic’s quietness reigned," said Rostron, "as eight-member band, led by Wallace though the disaster were so great that it Hartley, assembled in the first-class lounge silenced human emotion." to play. As the ship continued to plunge, On Thursday 18 April, the ‘ship of the band moved to the forward half of the widows’ sailed into a foggy New York boat deck and continued playing even Harbour. when their fate became apparent. Teaching Cave Times Titanic Make a list of names from the report Comment on the use of the word o ‘enveloped’ from the report. o ‘Ship of Widows’ – Give an explanation. o Can you find two pairs of alliteration What other information did you learn adjectives? from the story? o o Vocab – Spectres – Word Class:________ Definition: Vocab – Aimlessly – Word Class: _______ Definition: .