Titanic
Titanic
Titanic
británico, el mayor barco del mundo al its construction finished, it was the biggest
finalizar su construcción, que se hundió en la ship in the world. The ship sank at night in
noche del 14 a la madrugada del 15 de abril April 14th and the sunrise of April 15th of 1912
de 1912 durante su viaje inaugural desde in its inaugural travel from Southampton to
Southampton a Nueva York. En el New York. In its sinking were dead 1514
hundimiento del Titanic murieron 1514 people, from 2223 that were on board; this
personas de las 2223 que iban a bordo, lo tragedy was turned into one of the biggest
que convierte a esta tragedia en uno de los wreck in the history.
mayores naufragios de la historia
The ship was built between 1909 and 1912,
Construido entre 1909 y 1912 El barco fue designed to be the latest thing in luxury and
diseñado para ser lo último en lujo y comfort, it had gym, swim pool, library,
comodidad, y contaba con gimnasio, piscina, luxury restaurants and excellent cabins for
biblioteca, restaurantes de lujo y excelentes first class travelers.
camarotes para los viajeros de primera clase.
Some of the travelers were the richest men
Entre sus pasajeros estaban algunas de las in the world, among of hundred of Irish,
personas más ricas del mundo, además de British and Scandinavian immigrants that
cientos de inmigrantes irlandeses, británicos wanted to look for a better life in North
y escandinavos que iban en busca de una America.
mejor vida en Norteamérica.
On April 14th the Titanic crashed into an
El 14 de abril el Titanic chocó contra un iceberg and during two hours and a half the
iceberg. Y durante dos horas y media el ship was gradually sinking from its frontal
barco se fue hundiendo gradualmente por su part, main wile the poop was raised; during
parte delantera mientras la popa se elevaba, that time, some hundreds of travelers and
y en este tiempo varios cientos de pasajeros tripulants were evacuate in lifeboats, but not
y tripulantes fueron evacuados en los botes all of them were filled with his total of
salvavidas, pero no todos se llenaron con su capacity, only 710 people survived, and were
máxima capacidad, solo 710 sobrevivieron y rescued by the ocean liner RMS Carpathia.
fueron rescatados por el transatlántico RMS
Titanic is perhaps the most famous ship in
Carpathia.
the history, and its memory is kept alive
El Titanic es quizá el barco más famoso de la thanks to a lot of books, songs, movies and
historia y su memoria se mantiene muy viva exhibitions.
gracias a numerosos libros, canciones,
películas, y exposiciones.