A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember

In the crow’s nest, Fleet sees a large iceberg dead ahead and signals the bridge. He quickly reached above him and rang the bell three times. This was to signal that there was something out ahead. Fleet reached for the telephone and waited until it was picked up below. When it was answered he asked “Is there someone there?” “Yes” replied Officer Moody. “What do you see?” “Iceberg right ahead” Fleet answered. “Thank you” Moody replied as he hung up the phone. Sixth Officer Moody relays the message to Murdoch who instinctively orders “Hard-a-starboard” and telegraphs the engine room to stop all engines, followed by full astern. He also closes the watertight doors.

Titanic slowly begins to veer, but an underwater spar from the passing berg scraps and bumps along the starboard side for a 300-foot distance fully opening five forward compartments to the sea, as well as flooding the coal bunker servicing the No. 9 stokehold.

11:42 p.m. Aside from the men on the bridge and those closest to the impact, few realized that anything had happened. George Symons, just off duty as lookout, was lying in his bunk and thought that the anchor had dropped and the scraping sound he had heard was the chain running out of the ship. Henry Sleeper Harper, of the American publishing family, sat up in his bed and saw the iceberg pass his window, pieces of it crumbling as it went by. There were huge chunks of ice on the deck that people were kicking around as if it were a game.

Almost everyone in the first-class smoking room stood up from their seats when the jarring motion disturbed the room. Quartermaster George Rowe, located on the poop deck at the very stern of the ship, felt the jarring motion and, seeing the iceberg, walked to the rail to watch it pass.

11:55 p.m. The post office on “G” Deck forward is already flooding. After a quick inspection of the damage by Wilde, Boxhall and Andrews, Captain Smith knows the worst…that Titanic was sinking and the more than 2,200 people on board were in extreme peril.

Bruce Ismay, who had been asleep in his luxurious suite on B-deck, had also been awakened by the strange noise caused by the iceberg. Without bothering to change out of his nightclothes, he went to the bridge and asked Captain Smith what had happened. “We have struck ice,” Smith replied. “Do you think the ship is seriously damaged?” Ismay asked, hoping that things weren’t as bad as they might be. “I am afraid she is.”

Thomas Andrews, managing director of Harland & Wolff, arrived on the bridge a few minutes after Ismay departed. He told Captain Smith, in detail, of the full seriousness of the Titanic’s current situation. It was clear, based on reports received from throughout the ship, that the Titanic’s first six watertight compartments had been ruptured. The ship had never been designed to take this type of damage. The ship had been gashed opened to the sea.

Monday, April 15, 1912 shortly after midnight, Captain Smith ordered a radio call for assistance. Phillips taps out the regulation distress signal CQD…MGY…CQD…MGY… The 13,600 ton Cunard ship Carpathia recieved the message. Her Captain, Arthur Rostron, immediately turned his ship around and headed at full speed toward the Titanic’s radioed position.

The squash court, 32 feet above keel, is awash. The majority of the boilers have been shut down, and huge clouds of steam roar out of the relief pipes secured to the sides of the funnels. Smith orders that the lifeboats be uncovered and musters the crew and passengers.

12:15 a.m. Wallace Hartley and his band begin to play lively ragtime tunes in the 1st Class lounge on “A” Deck. They would continue to almost the end, and every member of the band would be lost.

12:25 a.m. Smith gives the order to start loading lifeboats with women and children. 2nd Officer Lightoller follows this order particularly to the letter.

Things you need to do to save humanity in you!

Things you need to do to save humanity in you!

It is almost a moral duty of every human being to perform some humanity things like kindness mercy help and so on around their surroundings, which helps you to save this word up to some extent and their moral values. Nowadays, we regularly appear from negative news like many wars happened between the world’s two nations. Whenever any War happened in the world, it not only affects the economic condition of a particular country but It also affects humanity’s overall rate in this very world, which is necessary for us to save to live our lives with peace and harmony.

Many persons exist in this world who regularly faces some significant problem just because of the particular reasons like having gone through the natural calamities and facing hate from the others. For example, in the Indian subcontinent country, many people suffer only because they are related to different caste and creed. Many high society people bring some wrong things with poor people, not suitable for humanity.

Furthermore, I would like to explain to you some things that will help you enlighten humanity in yourself and gives some kind of encouragement to others..

Take part in the cultural programs.

  • You must take part in the cultural programs where you can do various things to enlighten humanity among you. Every cultural program includes some specific items like dance dresses, and so on; many people also give some relief in the shape of real-time money to all the people who are related to the same caste and creed.
  • You need to give some money and food in this particular cultural program where you can get all the things you need to perform to become a real human being.
  • However, cultural programs also allow you to learn a few basics about your religion, which you belong to, and always help you learn humanity’s word in a more profound sense.

Be a part of welfare societies.

  • Becoming part of welfare societies is also essential for every people in this world to save humanity in themselves if you give some time to the Welfare societies, who go here and there to help all those suffering from the specific difficulty because of the natural calamities happened every year in the various parts of the world.
  • Whenever the Tornado Tsunami flood earthquake happened, many people started to suffer because of the lack of money, no place to live, and so on lost just because of the same calamity.
  • So at that time, you need to give some relief to all those suffering a lot because of the specific problems. You need to give some money in the shape of a donation to all the poor people who lost their essential family members and all the things they earn in their life.

All the above things can help you to improve your humanity standards, which you need to upgrade as a human being who wants to see peace and harmony in this world.

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