Fifth Class: English: Up and Running Story: Famous Shipwrecks B: What have you learned? 1. The ship-building company that built the Titanic was Harland and Wolff in Belfast. 2. The Titanic sank on 15th April 1912 at 2.20am. 3. The team of scientists that discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985 was led by Captain Jean Louis Michel and Dr. Robert Ballard. 4. The wreck of the Titanic can be reached in a MIR submersible, which is like a small submarine. 5. The Mary Rose was described as ‘the fairest flower of all the ships that ever sailed’. 6. King Henry VIII (8th) watched from the shore as she sank. 7. The Mary Rose was finally lifted to the surface in 1982. 8. The nickname given to the Lusitania was ‘The greyhound of the sea’. 9. In May 1915, as she sailed past the Old Head of Kinsale in County Cork, the Lusitania was struck by a torpedo that was fired from a German U-Boat called the U20. She sank in less than 20 minutes and 1,198 men, women and children were drowned. 10. The wreck of the Lusitania is near the Old Head of Kinsale in County Cork. C: Name the Ship 1. Mary Rose 2. Lusitania 3. German U-boat D: Art E: Date the Disaster 1. 19th July 1545; Mary Rose 2. 14th April 1912 (Hit the iceberg) / 15th April 1912 (sank); Titanic 3. Lusitania; 7th May 1915 F: Complete the Sentences The Titanic is one of the most famous shipwrecks of all time . The ship was built in Belfast her owners claimed that she was unsinkable . She set out on her maiden voyage on the 10th of April 1912. On this voyage she hit an iceberg. The iceberg ripped a hole 90 meters long in the hull of the liner. Passengers scrambled for the lifeboats but 1,517 of them were drowned. On the 15th of April the unsinkable ship sank in the freezing waters of the Atlantic Ocean. .