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gackground to the story

the Tiranie was the biggest ship In the worlel, JE was

also very fast and beautiful. There were big, ex

¡poms for first class passengers, nice rooms lor

2224 passengers on the ship and only twenty


passengers. On 10 April 1912, the ship bepan it

—i——

8N5/VE

HOCONO
class passengers, anda lot of small rooms for third clase

Neboats, |

passenger;

Ach Meboat could 1

ae only siny
5 tragie voyage from England to the 1%

Mov/ever, there y/era

OR the night of 14 April, the weather was yood and there were lots of stars in the

sky. The sea was quiet, but jtwas very cole


High up in the ship, two sailors - Frederlc k Pleet and Reginald Lee - looked e

black sea and sky. The two men were very cold, At 11,40 p.m. Fleet say somethí

ofthe ship. Itwas big and white, and it was no


“Iceberg! Iceberg!” he said on the telephone

far away

“There's an iceberg ín front of th

“Thank you, First Officer Murdoch answered. “Turn left, quickly, he told Robert

Hitchens, the sailor next to him, But big ships


And the Titanic was the biggest ship in the wor

urn much more slowly thar

For37 long seconds, nothing happened. The Titanic went toward


Million tons of ice - at 40 kilometres per hour. Then, very slowly, tl
left. Fleet and Lee watched, their mouths open. The iceberg

heard the noise when it hit the right side of the ship
Then the iceberg went behind the ship, away into
First Officer Murdoch's face was white. Stop 1
hey coult
bl

topped, and the Titanic moved slowet and slower

he

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