The Titanic Story

The Greatest Ship At the beginning of the 20th century,the fastest way to cross the Atlantic Ocean was by ocean liner. All the sipping lines wanted their ships to be the biggest,the best,and the fastest. The White Star Shipping Line was very proun whten they announced in 1912 that their"supership"-the Titanic-was ready to make her first voyage across the Atlantic. The Titanic was going to be the largest and best ship in the world. She was also going to be the most luxurious and the safest ship on the seas. This was a ship that was going to be impossilbe to sink. It was diddicult to believe her great size. How big was the Titanic? She was more than 269 metres long. Imagine a line of 22 large London buses standing one behind the other!This may give you an idea about the Titanics size. If you were in a small ship at sea when it passed the Titanic, you might think that you were passing in front of a cloud. A big, black could that hid the daylight and the sun.