The Story

It all began in 1898, when an American writer named Morgan Robertson had wrote a new story called The Story of the Titan. In his story, the Titan (just like Titanic, said to be "Unsinkable") had hit an iceberg and sunk in horrible tragedy. Because there weren't enough lifeboats, most people on the ship died.

That story had predicted just what would happen to Titanic fourteen years later. And it did all right. In 1907, Harland and Wolff, a company that built ships for the White Star Line, J. Bruce Ismay, Thomas Andrews, and a lot more people of the ships had attened a dinner party to plan out the two ships that would be built, the Titanic and the Olympic. The plans were made and the Titanic and the Olympic were going to be built.

In 1908, construction for the Titanic and the Olympic began and nobody had a clue what a waste of money Titanic was going to be because it would sink! The builders of Harland and Wolff built the Olympic and the Titanic. The reason for this was because the competition of the White Star Line, the Cunard Line, had just launched a luxury ship called the Lusitania. The Olympic took three years to build and the Titanic took four years. But both were sucessfully launched in 1912....

The Olympic was successfully launched and it was out on seas. The Titanic was ready to go out on seas when it was 2:00 P.M. on Wednesday, April 10, 1912. Passengers began loading the Titanic to fill up to a total of over 2,200 people...and most of them were going to die. But the first few days of Titanic were to good to last even for the Third Class passengers.

When it was a quiet Sunday in the day and not the night, the Titanic had hit the iceberg at exactly 11:51 P.M.. At 1:00, the lifeboats were finally made ready. It was to be woman and children first, and they were boarded filling up the boats 28 on the first and then 68 on the next 5, which were the only ones left. After all the lifeboats were full, a crew member yelled out the men, "Every man for himself." Most of the men died, but even some of them without the lifeboats had lived. But that was few. The Titanic was under the water.

All passengers alive were rescued, of course, at at least 6 by the CunardLine's Carpathia. The Carpathia wasn't planning on saving them but they decided to stop for the passengers. They needed to live! None of the passengers are alive today, but there used to be some when it was 1997, only few.

In 1985, Dr. Robert B. Ballard, had decided to discover the Titanic in a small submarine called Alvin and he had done it a few other times with the submarine called J.J., which was called Jason Junior, another small submarine. For the last time Dr. Robert B. Ballard went down to look at the Titanic. But after, a French Expedition had went down to see it also and recoverd many artifacts.

Copyright © 2000 by Andrew Udvare.
Last Updated: 08/24/00.