Name: ___________________________ Date: __________________

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1. The Titanic, a British passenger liner, began its maiden voyage from England to New York on April 10, 1912. _____
   
   
2. It was the largest and most luxurious ship ever built, and it carried 2,227 passengers and crew members. _____
   
   
3. The ship was described as a floating palace, and because its hull included a complicated system of watertight compartments, it was also declared to be practically unsinkable. _____
   
   
4. After three days of calm, clear weather at sea, the captain received seven warnings of ice in the area. _____
   
   
5. At 11:40 P.M. on April 14, lookouts in the ship's crow's nest saw an iceberg directly in the vessel's path, but it was too late to change course. _____
   
   
6. The Titanic struck the iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. _____
   
   
7. Because the ship was supposedly unsinkable, it carried only 20 lifeboats. _____
   
   
8. Women and children were first to board the lifeboats, which offered room for only about half the people aboard. _____
   
   
9. Water poured into the ship, and by 1:15 A.M., its bow sunk. _____
   
   
10. At 2:17 P.M., as the stern rose almost vertically into the air, the lights finally flickered and went out. _____
    
    
11. At 2:18 A.M. on April 15, the sinking ship broke in two, and at 2:20 A.M., it disappeared beneath the waves. _____
    
    
12. Those who did not drown froze to death in the icy water. _____
    
    
13. The disaster claimed 1,522 lives; 705 people were rescued. _____
    
    
14. After this tragedy occurred, new agreements revised lifeboat standards and created the International Ice Patrol in North Atlantic sea lanes. _____
    
    
15. Immediately, people began talking about ways to find the Titanic and raise it to the surface. _____
    
    
16. Not until 1985, though, did a team of U.S. and French researchers locate the wreck off the coast of Newfoundland at a depth of two-and-a-half miles. _____
    
    
17. Several subsequent expeditions sent cameras, lights, and manned submarines down to the eerie scene, where they explored and photographed the rusted wreckage and collected artifacts from it. _____
    
    
18. The photos revealed that the iceberg ripped a hole in six of the watertight compartments; the ship might have survived if only four of its compartments had been ruptured. _____
    
    
19. In 1996, when researchers tried to salvage a section of the ship's hull by raising it to the surface with balloons, a storm caused the lines to break, and the piece fell back to the bottom of the sea. _____
    
    
20. The ship is deteriorating rapidly in its saltwater grave, and it will eventually melt into the floor of the sea. _____