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14 years before Titannic sank a book was writen called the "Wreck of the Titan" it was about a huge ship that was built heading for new york and was hit by an iceberg and sank with many people still on board.
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the hull of the of the titanic ws lunched at noon on may 31 1911. it took 22 tons of soap, grease, and train ooiol to slide her down into the water.
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passengers began to arrive in Southampton for the trip to New York.
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there was thousands of people that showed up to see the wonderful ship cast off for the trip. the whistle on her was so big it could be heard from miles around.
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captain smith excused himself and went up to bridge. he talk to his officers aboout how hard it was to spot iccebergs.
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fred fleet and his fellow lookout were waiting to be relieved. when fleet saw something. an icecberg
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the radio room recives three more ice warnings of iceabout fiftymiles a head
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the first lifeboat was lowered. only about half full
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catain smith gave the orders to stsrt loading the life boats women and children first.
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there was still over 1500 people left on board the sinking ship all lifeboats were gone