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 * The Titanic **

The sinking of the RMS Titanic was a tragedy beyond compare. There were 2226 passengers on board and only 32% survived (703 people) out of the 434 women 324 of them survived, out of the 112 children 56 survived and out of the 1680 men on board only a mere 323 survived. The funny thing was that most of the Titanic’s lifeboats were not full, but were lowered in to the water before they could be. The Titanic hit an iceberg at about 11:40pm on the 14 of April 1912 and fully sunk at about 2:20am on the 15 of April. So the Titanic the unsinkable ship, taking 3 years and $7,500,000 to build sunk in less than 3 hours. Amazingly two dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic. From the time the lookouts saw the Iceberg and sounded the alert, the Titanic only had 37 seconds to turn out of the way, it did turn, but not enough. Many people believed that going to the lifeboats was just a drill as they had planned to do one earlier that day, so many more lives could have been saved. In the Titanic’s final moment she broke in two The Titanic was an awful event and if you are traveling by boat you better hope that history doesn’t repeat it’s self.