Titanic - does it have historical significance today?
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Harry Courtney 9LG The Titanic I believe the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 has some historical significance to today. After hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, Titanic began to sink, the lifeboats were launched, but there were not enough and as a result over 1,500 people died. The event was certainly famous, we know this as at the time all the newspapers were reporting on it, also it has lots of websites, books that say all about it. These are all different types of sources that tell us just how important the disaster was in history. The Titanic was on an important voyage as it was trying to beat the record for the transatlantic crossing, it was also on its first voyage which is called the 'maiden voyage'. The ship was deemed special as the papers called it 'unsinkable' but when it came to crunch this was not the case....

