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The Unsinkable Ship
The Unsinkable Ship

On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic also known as ‘The Unsinkable Ship,’ sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic but in 1997, James Cameron brought that fateful voyage to the television screen in a lifelike movie with what most historians believe to be accurate details. The fateful voyage of the RMS Titanic is a story that most people learn about and become fascinated with in elementary school. Like many people, James Cameron became fascinated with this story. In 1995, he began producing the movie, Titanic.
“84 years after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a 100-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.” (Anthony Pereyra, date N/A)
In 1907, plans were being made to build the famous RMS Titanic. Construction of the ship began and for five long years the workers worked all day and many times even all through the night to complete the ship. In 1912, the ship was finally completed. The Titanic weighed 45,000 tons and was 883 feet long. It could travel as fast as 21-23 knots. It took a crew of 907 men to run. The Titanic went through many safety checks before its first voyage, and was considered "unsinkable.”
On April 10th, 1912, the Titanic set sail. Two days went by with no trouble at all, but then came the night of April 14th. It was the night nobody on or even off the ship would ever forget. It started out as any normal day. However,



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