THE TITANIC

ALICE CATHERINE CLEAVER

• Her birthday is July 5th, 1889
• She was 22 years old at the time of the crash
• She was in first class acting as a nursemaid for The Allison family
• When the ship started to sink, she climbed into lifeboat 11 with baby Trevor
• She was in the boat with the maids, Sarah Daniels and Mildred Brown

ALICE CATHERINE CLEAVER

• When they arrived in New York, they avoided reporters by saying her name was Jean
• The maids, Trevor and Alice where they only people of their party who survived.
• Alice Cleaver died on November 1st, 1984 in Winchester

TIMELINE

• April 14, (9am): The Titanic receives first messages of icebergs
• April 15, (12:15am): The Titanic sends out first distress call
• April 15, (12:45am): The first distress rocket is fired
• April 15, (1:40am): The last distress rocket is fired
• April 15, (2:17am): The last wireless distress call is transmitted.

TIMELINE

• April 15, (2:18am): The lights go out and the passengers hear and enormous crash.
• April 15, (2:18am): Engines and furnitures spill out into the ocean

FACTORS

LESS LIFEBOATS

• Instead of 48 lifeboats, there were 16
• If there 48 lifeboats, everybody could have survived
• Because they wanted the Titanic to look fancy, they were short 32

CHANGING COURSE

• The captain changed course because of icebergs
• He thought he was taking them away from the icebergs
• He was actually taking the head-on with the icebergs

IGNORING MESSAGES

• The Titanic ignored messages from the Californian
• He got frustrated and sent a rude message
• They turned off their wireless system for the night

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