The Unsinkable Ship

Titanic part 2

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Titanic part 2: A ship called ‘The California’ was only twenty miles away but she did not receive Titanic’s messages. Her radio was turned off and the radio operator was asleep. Another ship called the ‘Carpathia’ (कार्पाथिआ) heard the Titanic’s call and sailed at full speed towards her. Unfortunately the Carpathia was far away and she took over 3 hours to reach the Titanic. Meanwhile, the Titanic was sinking rapidly. The crew lowered the life – boats into the sea, but there was only enough space in the boat for a few hundred passengers. The Titanic had more than two thousand people on board. The ship began to tilt into the sea. People began to jump from the decks into the ice – cold water. With its lights still shining, the Titanic stood upright for a few minutes. Then at 2:20 am, on 15 April, she vanished into the Sea. About fifteen hundred people drowned. Captain Smith and most of his crew went down with the ship.