How Did The Titanic Affect The World

The Titanic was completely underwater around 2:20 a.m. on April 15. Cunard's Carpathia got the stress call at midnight and went around and found the lifeboats containing the few 705 survivors, about 1,517 people died that day. The ship's remains lay 2.5 miles on the ocean floor. Life changing events, like the Titanic, affected people personally and culturally.

The Titanic also affected us personally By the time Margaret Tobin Brown boarded Titanic at Cherbourg, France, she had already made a significant impact in the world. She and her daughter Helen, who was a student at the Sorbonne, had been traveling throughout Europe and were staying with the John Jacob Astor party in Cairo, Egypt, when Margaret received word that her first grandndchild, Lawrence Palmer Brown, Jr., was ill. She decided to leave for New York immediately, and booked passage on the earliest ship: Titanic. At the last minute Helen decided to stay behind in London. Due to her quick decision, very few
people, including family, knew that Margaret was on board the Titanic. After the ship struck the iceberg, Margaret helped load others into lifeboats and eventually was forced to board lifeboat six. She and the other women in lifeboat six worked together to row, keep spirits up, and dispel the gloom that was broadcast by the emotional and unstable Robert Hichens. However, Margaret's most significant work occurred on Carpathia, where she assisted Titanic survivors, and afterwards in New York. By the time Carpathia reached New York harbor, Margaret had helped establish the Survivor's Committee, been elected as chair, and raised almost $10,000 for destitute survivors. Margaret's language skills in French, German, and Russian were an asset, and she remained on Carpathia until all Titanic survivors had met with friends, family, or medical/emergency assistance. In a letter to her daughter shortly after the Titanic sinking, she wrote: "After being brined, salted, and pickled in mid ocean I am now high and dry... I have had flowers, letters, telegrams-people until I am befuddled. They are petitioning Congress to give me a medal... If I must call a specialist to examine my head it is due to the title of Heroine of the Titanic." Another personal story from another person's perspective is the story of Around four days at sea, around 11:30 p.m.
April 14th the look out saw the giant iceberg (Imagine) and phoned the captain. The engines got reversed and the ship started to turn the iceberg just barely hit the Titanic leaving a 300 foot gash on the side of the boat, flooding six compartments. In a little over two hours, the Titanic filled with water. The Titanic's horrifying last moments, with its stern soaring high into the air before it cracked in two and disappeared, into the depth of the ocean, a popular memory. "The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. Its the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it." -Eva Hart, Titanic
Survivor.

"There was peace and the world had an even tenor to it's way. Nothing was revealed in the morning the trend of which was not known the night before. It seems to me that the disaster about to occur was the event that not only made the world rub it's eyes and awake but woke it with a start keeping it moving at a rapidly accelerating pace ever since with less and less peace, satisfaction and happiness. To my mind the world of today awoke April 15th, 1912." -Jack B. Thayer, Titanic Survivor The sinking of the Titanic captured the attention of the world. Possibly the first disaster of mankind. With victims from North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and even innocent people from Africa. Not even the plague in the middle ages reaches the corners of the earth.