Titanic Flashcards
Where?
Atlantic Ocean
When?
April 14th 1912
What happened?
The white star line ship, Titanic sunk another she struck an ice burg.
How many people died?
1517 people
Who had the best chance of survival?
1st class women
The White star line didn’t put enough life boats on, why?
They didn’t want to make the deck seem cluttered
How many ice warning were given and ignored?
7
Why was the Captin not the best for that job?
He was over confident
Why did the seams rip?
The bolts were not made of the correct material
Why didn’t the water compartments go up far enough?
Because it would have made 1st class more crowded
What did the Captin of the Californian say when his crew woke him up to tell him they had seen flares?
They are probably just fireworks then he went back to sleep
