Queen Mary 2 Project Queen Mary 2 or QM2 is the largest passenger ship ever built. The ship has a nightclub‚ a spa‚ a wine bar‚ 15 restaurants and bars‚ a library‚ and a planetarium. The ship is 1‚132 feet long‚ has the capacity to carry 2‚620 passengers‚ and weighs about 151‚400 tons. The maiden voyage on January 14‚ 2004 made history‚ and the project was such a success that it was awarded a maritime Oscar from Berlitz in their 2005 guide to Ocean Cruising and Cruise Ships. The project
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indestructible‚ sank from an iceberg that had been said to be larger than the ship itself. That ship was called the Titanic. The Titanic was said to be a beauty and some might’ve said it was the largest ship they ever seen.The Titanic had about over 2‚000 passengers when it sailed in 1912 and had only 705 people saved by the ship Carpathia when it sunk. What some didn’t know was that Carpathia was the only ship to help over at least 12 ships that was close by. While the Titanic was sailing‚ the ocean was calm
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renowned shipbuilders Harland & Wolff. They built her sister ships ‘The Britannic’ and ‘The Olympic’. It took 11‚300 Harland & Wolff shipyard workers 26 months to build the titanic. The Titanic was famous for its size‚ its luxury‚ its famous passengers and for being ‘unsinkable’.
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should have reduced the speed of the Titanic. I also think that Captain Stanley Lord of the Californian has to carry a heavy part of the blame. This is because he failed to assist the Titanic when the first rocket was seen. It can be argued that all passengers could have been saved had the Lord seen the first rocket. Looking towards the future‚ and helping against a reoccurrence‚ both America and Britain recommended that it becomes mandatory for all ships to be equipped with sufficient lifeboats. They
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unpleasant and he feels uncomfortable getting too comfortable. He receives “stress from pampering” and a “weird kind of pampering-paranoia”. Throughout the whole essay Wallace is very critical and judgmental not only of the cruise‚ but of its staff‚ and passengers as well. To express himself in his writing‚ he uses a lot of repetition and metaphors to get his point across to the readers. While this descriptive essay is humorous and an easy read due to the language‚ it is also very detailed and a little
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and crew contributed to the sinking of the titanic. Firstly‚ I would like to bring up how the captain had seven ice warning but every time refusing to slow down or choose another path to follow. Put the rest of the crew and passengers life at risk. I believe that the reason that the captain ignores the warning was because of the pre-publicity. They said the titanic was practically unsinkable and even god couldn’t sink it. This made people overconfident include the captain and
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On April 15‚ 1912‚ the biggest and most unsinkable ship sank. The Titanic left England‚ heading to New York City on April 10‚ 1912 on its maiden voyage. The ship had over 2‚227 passengers aboard. Days later‚ this beautiful masterpiece sank to the bottom of the ocean. Nearly 1‚500 people died that day on the Titanic‚ after crashing into an iceberg. But was it really the iceberg’s fault for the lives lost? There were many people accused for losing the lives‚ however‚ only one makes sense. Stanley
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detached from the world for the last century‚ and havent a clue as to what the Titanic is all about‚ let me update you. “RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912‚ after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the 2‚224 passengers and crew aboard‚ more than 1‚500 died‚ making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.” (From Wikipedia
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The book is mainly about the story of the sinking of the Titanic. It additionally states that there was a rescue boat named Carpathia that saved the remaining passengers on the Titanic. Research claims that there was indeed a boat called Carpathia that arrived at approximately 4:00 AM. As described in the book‚ it also says that Patrick’s brother James stay in the boilers room to try and stop the Titanic from sinking
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somewhat difficult time spotting icebergs (Baldwin Parts 1-2; Titanic the Final Word; Nigel). If there was not this theory of the Titanic being unsinkable‚ many if not all the lives on the ship would have been saved. This theory led to some of the passengers
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