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Titanic - StoryHello, my name is Richard Peterson, I am travelling first class, on the Titanic from Ireland, I am woful to New York because I want to make something out of my deep disport in motorcars. I am travelling with my Wife - Mary, Mum - Jean, and comrade - John. On the evening of 11th April 1912 at about 11 Oclock I was having a transfuse of tea with my wife in our cabin when we felt up a rather large shudder. We didnt think much(prenominal) of it at the condemnation as we thought that is could get down been anything. Room service knocked at my gate requesting to channel our rubbish, this was when we asked her what the shudder was. She said, Dont worry, it was only the propeller hitting a lowly rock, we just stopped the engines to check that they are ok. About a sop up of an hour later a crew member came to our cabin and told us to get our aliveness jackets of and to report up to top deck as soon as possible, this is when both my wife and I started to get a bit w orried. As instructed we reported to top deck, but on the style up we were asked the man who made the ship what had happed. He said, We only have 2 hour at the most, Im afraid to admit, my ships going to sink. We knew we didnt have much time but enough to easily get on to a lifetimeboat. So we went back to our cabin and rushed down a cup of tea to stop us from dehydrating as we didnt know how long it would take for another boat to pick us up. Then we went to the restaurant as got some biscuits for us and the other masses which would be on our life boat. With only having 1 hour to spare we rushed as warm as we could to the top deck, we looked everywhere but couldnt find a life boat, then when we got to the other side of the deck we found a lifeboat, we cued up for it, we waited about ten minutes until it got to us, then finally we were one of the belong four people to get of the lifeboat, we were cramped up, there were forty people on our lifeboat. After about half an hour we we re terrified, as we were notice the