The non-fiction novel A Night To Remember by Walter Lord is about the well known disaster that the luxury cruse ship the "Titanic" went thorough. This story takes place on the ship and on its many decks. During the story the Titanic sails along the Atlantic Ocean. Walter Lord wrote this book in 1955, but the famous collision occurred on April 14, 1912 at 11:40 P.M. In this novel the author, Walter Lord wants to show what happened at every moment on the cruse liner. The Novel also has not one main character, that is, all characters have the same value in the story.
On April 14, 1912, 2:00 P.M. was when the Titanic left Queenstown for New York on the huge Voyage carrying 1316 passengers and 891 crew. All was calm cruising along the Atlantic at 221/2 knots and the ocean looked like a sheet of ice. The watchman in the crows nest accounted for an iceberg but since the ship was unsinkable there was no need to worry right? All was calm on the ship as well some were playing cards, looking out at the night sky, listening to the band play, and some people decided to sleep. Until that "grinding" noise came, at aro
Back home Newspapers read that all were saved from the massive collision. But that was far from the truth. There was only about 705 survivors. The Titanic was the single most popular ship in History that was noticed as one of the worst tragedies.
No one could save the Titanic now the only hope was to save the people who got off the ship with the help of the ship Carpathia who dropped the lines out to save those in the life boats.
As word soon spread that the collision was a lot worse than before expected, the captain and the crew members went to go check the damage. The blow caused a two foot gash in the side of boiler room number 5.
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