Chapter 1
Out on the Open Sea
It was 2.30 am. The titanic sank only 10 minutes ago and the surviving passengers and crew sat in the boat waiting for help that would take hours to come.
"Mummy where is the boat?" Edith asked her mother.
"It sank but I am sure a boat will be on the way to help us" Ruth answered her daughter back and starting to lose hope herself that help was on the way.
As the clock hit 7 O clock in the morning the sun began to rose and the passengers and crew woke up to a sea full of bodies and floating furniture the sight was horrific. So to keep their self warm the passengers decided that the best idea was to keep rowing to keep their self warm and not to drift far from the bodies in case help came.
As the sun finally rose higher up from the horizon the passengers saw a tiny dot far away from them but it was looking like it was coming closer every minute. Molly Brown was on one of the boats. She began to shout on the boat.
"Hey look a boat. Everyone shout HELP!" Molly told everyone on her boat to shout.
As the crew on the boat began to wave and shout all of the other boats began to do the sane and eventually the rescue ship came close enough for them to see the nameplate of the ship. The name was "Carpathia"
Because there was so many little children in the boats they could not climb up the ladder like the other passengers did so the crew of the Carpathia lifted them up onto the ship using the cargo chains with huge nets that lifted all of them up and landed them safely on the ship. It was now nearing lunchtime and all of the surviving crew and passengers were on board the Carpathia. There was no sign that there were no more life boats from the titanic so the Carpathia made one last stop and that was where the bodies of the dead were spotted by the passengers. The captain of the Carpathia wanted to see if there was anybody alive. That was very unlikely.
They passed the Californian on the way to New York she was the closest ship to the Titanic and one of the last ships to know of the tragedy. About two in the afternoon the Carpathia revived their first telegram from New York wanting to know if there was any death and if the rumours that the titanic had sunk was true. The wireless officers were told to ignore any of the messages from the press and only accept ones from the white star line.
Over at New York there was a lot of confusion one day in the papers the Titanic was safe and all of the passengers and another day the Titanic had sunk resulting in great loss of life. No one would know the truth until the Carpathia would reach New York with Titanic's passengers and crew. Everyone waited nervously to see who had survived and who had perished.
At six O clock in the night the next afternoon the white star office received a telegram saying to get a boat ready as soon as the Carpathia reaches New York so the crew of the ship could go off the Carpathia and board another boat to go straight back to England. This telegram was sent by yasmi and it didn't take long for someone in the media found out that yasmi was Ismay spelt backwards.