How Did The Edmund Fitzgerald Support The Three Sisters

The article Into the Dark Water by Lauren Tarshis is about when the most massive, high in technology, indestructible ship sunk. The Titanic of course. Also when passenger and survivor Jack Thayer shared his journey, through his writing with author Lauren Tarshis. It makes the article more intriguing to use quotes because it makes you feel as if you are on the ship on that night.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was a vessel named after the man Edmund Fitzgerald who was the President and Chairman of the Board of Northwestern Mutual Insurance. The vessel was taking taconite from Superior, Wisconsin to Zug Island which is near Detroit, Michigan on November 10, 1975. The storm on Lake Superior that fateful day killed all 29 crew members. The vessel was 729 feet and 13,632 gross ton empty of cargo. She was the largest ship to sail on the Great Lakes for 13 years until 1971. The Fitzgerald sank on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior. My theory for her sinking is the Six-Fathom Shoal.

on its maiden voyage in 1912 the British ocean liner titanic sank after ramming an iceberg in the north atlantic ocean. the nearest ship the California did not get the SOS message because the radio operator had gone to bed and turned off his radio. the titanics captain Edward j smith knew that there were only enough lifeboats for half the 2100 people on board in the panic even those were not filled. seventeen year old jack Thayer from Philadelphia was not lucky enough to get into a lifeboat but as the titanic slid into the water, he dived from its deck into the ice waters coming upon an overturned lifeboat he hung on until the carpathian came to his rescue at dawn more than 1500 other people were not so

The Edmund fitzgerald was a boat used for hauling iron ore, she set and broke her own record multiple times. On Novemeber 9 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald was on route to a steel mill near Detroit. They ran into a huge storm, with hurricane force winds and 30 plus foot waves. That very night the ship sank in Canadian waters more than 500 feet deep to the bottom of Lake Superior. The last message the captain sent back to mainland was that they were holding their own and everything was okay. No known cause of the ship sinking has been found but people think that the ship got covered in water from the waves and were unable to stay afloat. There was a crew of 29 people and none of the bodies have ever been recovered.

On April 14th, 1912, the Titanic set sail and crashed into an iceberg. About 705 passengers were rescued but 1500 died that night by freezing in the waters or sinking with the ship.

When the titanic was first built it was said to be the fastest, unsinkable, and safest ship. This was the first voyage of the Titanic. There were over 2,200 people on the ship and over 1,500 passengers died. As a result of the sinking of the titanic the radio act of 1912 was passed which improved communications for ships. The radio act included rules that improved the radios by making sure they don't have interferences, put other ships in dangerous situations, and improve the distance they can reach.

The Titanic was the largest ocean liner in commission (Marshall ch 2). The monster ship was launched on May 31, 1911, and was completed in February of 1912, with a cost of $10,000,000 (Marshall). Officers of the White Star Line say that the Titanic measured around 45,328 tons even though, the registered tonnage of the vessel was estimated at 45,000 (Marshall). Weighing 5,000 more tons than a battleship, the Titanic was 882 ½ feet long, which is about four city blocks (Marshall). Not only was the Titanic the largest liner aloft, but it was also

   The two important female characters in the "poetic tragedy"(Adler 12), A Streetcar Named Desire, are Stella and Blanche. The most obvious comparison between Stella and Blanche is that they are sisters, but this blood relationship suggests other similarities between the two women. They are both part of the final generation of a once aristocratic but now moribund family. Both manifest a great deal of culture and sensitivity, and because of this, both seem out of place in Elysian Fields. "Beauty is shipwrecked on the rock of the world's vulgarity" (Miller 45).  Blanche, of course, is much more of an anachronism than Stella, who has for the most part adapted to the

Captain Edward Smith stayed on the boat while it was sinking. He was an English naval reserve officer. He

submarine. The ship sank in twelve minutes. Over the course of five days and four nights many

The explosions caused great damage. The Indianapolis took on a heavy water. Twelve minutes later, she rolled completely over, then her stern rose into the air, and she plunged straight down into the ocean. Some 300 of the 1,196 crewmen went down with the ship. With very scarce lifeboats and many without lifejackets, the remainder of the crew were set adrift. The navy blamed the sinking on the captain which was Butler McVay. They blamed this on him because he did not use a zig zagging maneuver. Which would have prevented this tragic

At the time, the ship was the biggest existence of the ship and the largest movable object ever built. Owned by the White Star Line, one of a number of shipping companies who transported people across the Atlantic, was designed to be the flagship of their fleet. Captained by Edward J. Smith, the Titanic was believed to be completely unsinkable. On April 10th, 1912, the Titanic set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic destined to New York. Aboard were 2,200 passengers and

sunk at around 2:20am. There were 9 dogs total on board the ship, only 2 were rescued. 1,503

The role of women in the 1950 was seen to be repressive and constrictive in many ways. Society placed high importance and many expectations for these women on behavior at home as well as in public. Women were supposed to fulfil certain roles, such as a caring mother, a diligent homemaker, and an obedient wife. The perfect mother was supposed to stay home and nurture so society would accept them. In fact, even if a woman wanted to voice an opinion, her lack of education would not allow it . The play A Streetcar Named Desire is set during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s period where it describes the decline of a fading Southern belle named Blanche DuBois. The women in this play are represented to be dependent and submissive in nature and in addition they are also seen to be manipulative. However, Williams has also portrayed these women to be independent and taking control of the situation. This can be seen through the use of the main characters

The RMS Titanic; A Tragedy Based on Class. In April, 1912, the so called "unsinkable" Titanic set sail to New York. The great ship was as big as five city blocks, and weighed thousands and thousands of tons. Everyone who was everyone grabbed a room on the luxurious ship for the trip of a lifetime. On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg an sank into the icy depths of the North Atlantic.