In April 1912 the Titanic arrived in Southampton in the south of England. Everyone was excited about the new ship. It was the biggest ship in the world, the most beautiful, perhaps the fastest. And it was much safer than older ships, because it had sixteen compartments with emergency doors. The new ship had radio too. Passengers could send messages from the ship to their friends at home!
Captain Smith and his officers and sailors were ready. Then the passengers came – millionaires, young people, families of six, people from more than forty different countries. Many of them wanted to begin a new life in America.
So the Titanic went to Cherbourg in France, then Queenstown in Ireland, and then left for New York. There were 2,208 people on the ship, but there were lifeboats for only half of them. But that did not matter. The Titanic was unsinkable...
1912年4月，\"泰坦尼克\"號(hào)抵達(dá)英格蘭南部的南安普敦。這艘新建成的船只令所有人都興奮不已。它是當(dāng)時(shí)世界上最大、最美的船只，其航行速度可能也是最快的。而且，它比以往的船只要更加安全，因?yàn)樗��?6間帶安全門的水密艙。這艘新建的船只還配有無(wú)線電，乘客可以在船上向家里的朋友發(fā)送消息！
史密斯船長(zhǎng)和他的船員、水手們都已整裝待發(fā)。隨后，乘客們也陸續(xù)登船，其中有百萬(wàn)富翁、年輕人、六口之家，這些人來(lái)自40多個(gè)不同的國(guó)家。他們當(dāng)中很多人都想在美國(guó)開(kāi)啟新的生活。
于是，\"泰坦尼克\"號(hào)啟航了，途經(jīng)法國(guó)瑟堡、愛(ài)爾蘭昆士敦，然后駛向紐約。船上有2,208人，然而配備的救生船只能搭載全船人數(shù)的一半。不過(guò)這并不要緊，\"泰坦尼克\"號(hào)是不可能沉沒(méi)的……