When push came to shove or when money talked, who ever got on the boats stayed. The lifeboats were big enough to hold 65 people, but when they departed from the Titanic they were only carrying, at the most, 28 people.At 1:15 am the Titanic’s bow plunged beneath the surface and by 2:17 am the lights flickered, went out as the rest of the ship sank. Even thought there was enough room on the lifeboats for the people trying not to die on the freezing 28 degree water, only one boat out of the twenty, went back to help others. Lifeboat 14, officer Lowe transferred passengers that were already on the boat to a waiting ship that heard what happened and rowed back to the wreckage. Lowe pulled fourteen people out of the water, only half of those survived (Dicovery.com). They died of hypothermia. Brave men continued to carry out their work as the ship was sinking, the orchestra continued to play until the last and final moments. Can you imagine knowing that your life was about to end and there was nothing that you could do about it?“Her deck was turned slightly towards us. Wecould see groups of the almost 1,500 people still aboard, clinging in clusters or bunches like swarming bees; only to fall in masses, pairs, or singly as the great after part of the ship, 250 feet of it, rose into the sky” –Jack Thayer Of the 2,227 people aboard only 705 survived. Of course those were mostly first class passengers. The lower class made up the majority of the ship but they had no chance of escaping when they were treated like their lives didn’t matter. Sixteen of those survivors recently died between 1990 and 1998. Five are still alive today. If we were to talk to those survivors would they explain the “tragedy” the same way? If the Captain would of acknowledged the ice warnings would so many people have died or better yet, would the ship not have sunk? This “Unsinkable” ship took the name in vain. Was th...
