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A Disaster Is Coming Ahead, But It was Unsinkable They Said
Background
The Titanic was known as the biggest, luxurious, and the“unsinkable” ship. On March 31st, 1909 the Titanic was being constructed in Ireland. It was about $7,500,000 to construct the boat. Then, on April 10, 1912 at 11:30am the largest ship known to man set sail from Southampton, England to New York, for a 2 week long voyage. When they set sail there was a fire in the coal bunker that everyone ignored. Before the titanic hit the iceberg there were notifications that there were iceberg ahead. When the titanic was sinking it broke in half with one side going down and the other side floated for a while then sank. The Titanic was remembered of its tragic sinking.

Thesis Statement
The Shipbuilders are responsible for the sinking of the titanic because of the rivets they used, the type of iron they used, and how they focused on the decoration of this ship more than the structure.

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Out of 3 million rivets, half of the rivets were good Steel rivets and the other half were weaker lower grade wrought iron rivets, “The weaker iron rivets in the bow popped, opening seams in the hull—and hurrying the ship's demise(USNews.com).” This is affected by the rivets made the ship sink faster. Another reason why the rivets are important when the titanic, ”Hit the iceberg,the force impacted the heads of the rivet s to break(Historyonthenet.com).”(the weaker rivets) This wouldn't had happened if they used the steel rivets. After that impact the ship snapped in half. The section where it snapped in half was between the wrought iron rivets and steel rivets. The wrought iron rivets side is what sank

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