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Titanic: History Worksheet 5A

Use your diamond nine to help you write paragraphs in each of these boxes. Use full sentences and try to explain why you have

chosen each key point.

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Why did so many people lose their lives when the Titanic sank?

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Titanic: History Worksheet 5B

Use the Fact sheet to remind you of the different reasons that have been investigated about the Titanic’s sinking. Decide which reasons you think had the greatest impact on the number of

victims. Each paragraph should be about one of the reasons you’ve picked and why you feel it is significant.

Why did so many people lose their lives when the Titanic sank?

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Titanic: History Debate Sheet 5A

Use the box at the top to write a statement about who or what you think is to blame for so many people losing their lives aboard the

Titanic.

I think that so many people lost their lives because… _________________________

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Peer responses

After participating in this debate, I think that…. _____________________________

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Titanic: History Titanic Cards 5A

The Titanic’s route through the Northern Atlantic took her

through dangerous ice fields at high speeds, despite the captain being warned several times of

icebergs along the route.

The Titanic, whilst it had the legal number for a ship of her size, did not have enough lifeboats for the

number of people on board.

The icy conditions meant that people who were exposed to the freezing water were more likely

to die from the extreme cold.

The attitude that the Titanic was unsinkable meant that passengers

and crew felt safer aboard the Titanic and were reluctant to take

evacuation seriously.

The crew on the Titanic were poorly prepared for the event of

an emergency evacuation. Lifeboat drills had been cancelled and the crew had not practised,

meaning lifeboats were launched half full.

First-class passengers had evacuation priority over other

passengers and third-class passengers found it difficult to

reach the boat decks.

The rivets used to construct the Titanic were of poor quality and

broke easily under pressure.

The SS Californian’s radio officer had gone to bed, meaning the

Titanic’s distress signals were not received and the distress flares

were ignored.

The bulkhead compartments in the ship’s hull were not

watertight. As each compartment became full, it began flooding the next one, pulling the bow of the ship underwater as it flooded.

The Titanic’s route through the Northern Atlantic took her

through dangerous ice fields at high speeds, despite the captain being warned several times of

icebergs along the route.

The Titanic, whilst it had the legal number for a ship of her size, did not have enough lifeboats for the

number of people on board.

The icy conditions meant that people who were exposed to the freezing water were more likely

to die from the extreme cold.

The attitude that the Titanic was unsinkable meant that passengers

and crew felt safer aboard the Titanic and were reluctant to take

evacuation seriously.

The crew on the Titanic were poorly prepared for the event of

an emergency evacuation. Lifeboat drills had been cancelled and the crew had not practised,

meaning lifeboats were launched half full.

First-class passengers had evacuation priority over other

passengers and third-class passengers found it difficult to

reach the boat decks.

The rivets used to construct the Titanic were of poor quality and

broke easily under pressure.

The SS Californian’s radio officer had gone to bed, meaning the

Titanic’s distress signals were not received and the distress flares

were ignored.

The bulkhead compartments in the ship’s hull were not

watertight. As each compartment became full, it began flooding the next one, pulling the bow of the ship underwater as it flooded.


Joint 4th causes Joint 4th causes

Lowest cause for loss of life

Titanic: History Diamond Nine Template 5A

Joint 3rd causes Joint 3rd causes Joint 3rd causes

Joint 2nd causes Joint 2nd causes

Greatest cause for loss of life


Thomas Andrews: Ship’s architect

Harland and Wolff: Shipbuilders

• The rivets used to hold the Titanic together were of poor quality and broke more easily than ones used for other ships.

• The ‘watertight’ bulkheads (walls which separate the hull into compartments) in the Titanic’s compartments were not sealed at the top. When they flooded, water could escape from one compartment to another.

Bruce IsmayShip’s owner

• Authorised the Titanic to have fewer lifeboats than she was originally designed to have.

• Encouraged the rumour that the Titanic was unsinkable.• Spoke to the captain during the voyage to ask about a possible test of the

ship’s speed.• According to his testimony, he helped other passengers board lifeboats

before boarding one when there were no more women and children around to offer the space to.

Captain Edward Smith

• Received several iceberg warnings during the journey.• Slightly adjusted the Titanic’s course to take a more southern route.• Kept the ship going at almost full speed.• Cancelled a lifeboat drill the morning before the Titanic sank.• Ordered the evacuation an hour after the collision.• Helped with the evacuation by giving orders and instructions to people

on board. • Made an attempt to call back lifeboats to pick up more passengers.• Went down with the ship.

SS Californian

Captain Lord: Commander of the

Californian

Cyril Evans: Wireless officer

• Was less than 20 miles from the Titanic (the RMS Carpathia, who responded to the Titanic’s distress calls, was 67 miles away)

• They had stopped as they were surrounded by ice, and had warned the Titanic as such.

• Wireless officer went to bed at 11:30 pm, leaving the wireless communications unsupervised.

• Crew reported flares being sent from the Titanic, these were reported to the captain who responded with a morse light (a light for signalling nearby ships) but ultimately ignored them.

Other information • People believed that the Titanic was unsinkable and therefore felt safer on the ship rather than escape on a lifeboat.

• First-class passengers had priority in the evacuation and their cabins were nearer to the boat deck.

• Third-class cabins were low in the ship and some of the gates which separated the class areas remained locked, preventing people from escaping.

• Lifeboats were launched half full as evacuation procedure was not made clear to crew members.

• The freezing cold water meant that people who were exposed to it could not survive for long.

Titanic: History Fact Sheet 5A

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