Which of these facts are true?
The Titanic was the world’s largest ship of the time
It was like a floating palace, with the best of everything on it
It was said to be “unsinkable,” but the ship went down on its first voyage
For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later.
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, the largest passenger steamship of this time, met its catastrophic end after crashing into an iceberg.
Of the 2,240 passengers and crew onboard, only 705 survived. More than 100 years later, today's readers will be intrigued by the mystery that surrounds this ship that was originally labeled "unsinkable."
1912 年 4 月 15 日凌晨 2 點20 分，當時最大型的客輪——皇家郵輪鐵達尼號撞到冰山後，迎來悲慘的結局。
船上的乘客與船員一共 2240 人，只有 705 人存活。一百多年後，當初號稱「永不沉沒」的鐵達尼號，其神秘深深吸引了許多當代讀者。