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The Titanic Research Paper

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The date was April 14th, 1912. The location was a calm and flat Atlantic Ocean. The air was cold and windless. The time was approaching midnight. The ship was the RMS Titanic, one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built. The lookout was Frederick Fleet and his furtive words to be forever remembered were, "Iceberg, Right ahead!"

The Titanic could not avoid a collision with the forbidding iceberg that had been spotted too late... First Officer William McMaster Murdoch looked on, horrified, from the helm of the majestic vessel.

The iceberg had cruelly gouged a two hundred foot rupture along the great ship's side. Five of the ship's water compartments were open and filled with water. The Titanic broke in half as the front

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