The Sinking
The fatal collision had come. The crew
knew they had to do one thing and only one thing. They
had to save the passengers. They had to get the lifeboats
ready for the passengers. Some of the passengers were
pretty lucky, but most of them weren't. There were only
six lifeboats and more than two thousand people went on
the ship. The lifeboats could only hold a capacity of
sixty-five, but in a few there were only twenty-eight
were put in the lifeboats. When the SOS calls were made,
some people yelled back, "The ship can't be sinking!
The ship is 'Unsinkable.'" But they were wrong. So
wrong.
Thomas Andrews was walking around the ship
and many people didn't know that the ship was sinking.
Most people were already in bed. Thomas Andrews and more
crew members went around the whole ship waking everybody
up before the water could drown them. Sometimes they were
too late. Some people asked if they had time to dress.
But of course they had time for nothing, as the crew
members would usually say to the passengers. The only
thing they could do was throw their lifejackets over
their nightgowns.
The ship was now getting worst and worst,
filling with water, taking its mighty bow, and sinking!
The last place that Thomas Andrews was in was the lounge.
He was staring at a painting. The ship was sinking and he
ignored all the things on the mantle that were falling
down. He thought he should've designed a better ship. He
knew the ship had three hours to stay afloat. But it was
the rivets of the ship that were made wrong and that's
part of the reason why the ship sank.
At 1:05 P.M., the lifeboats were finally made
ready for the passengers. A few crew members had to cut
off the ropes because the ropes were way to tight to roll
them down. Boats began fallling down. People were pushed
onto the lifeboats even though the lifeboats usually had
twenty-eight people that night. The ship was getting
worst. The last lifeboat went down and Molly Brown was in
it too.
The men were left on the ship. The captain
was dead. He killed himself. One crew member yelled
"Every man for himself!" It really was the time
for the men to try to save themselves. The ship was now
bobbing in the water. And it only took twenty seconds for
the stern to go down and slip into the sea.
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The
fireworks were shot out at this time to see if
anybody would see them and come and save the
passengers of Titanic. That wasn't
happenning. |
| The
Titanic was not so tipped at this time,
but it was sinking! |
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This
is one of the most famous paintings of the
sinking. The stern was almost all the way out of
the water now. |
| This
is the front of the Titanic at this time.
Water just couldn't be stopped as it filled up
the whole entire ship. |
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Even
at this time, Fenway Park was opening while Titanic
was sinking and in this image, the Titanic's
stern is all the way out of the water! |
| At
this time, many people were falling off the ship.
The funnels were falling down too and killing
people. |
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The
shut down of the lights had come. Lights were off
and screams filled the air. Now no one could see. |
| The
ship had split at this point. You cannot see the
cracked parts in this image. |
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This
was where you could really hear the loud CRAAACK
when the ship had split in half. |
| Screams
filled the air as the ship fell down after
splitting in half and made the biggest splash. |
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The
ship funnels began falling down into the sea and
then the Titanic was bobbing and slipped
into the sea. |
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