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The Titanic Disaster's Aftermath

The Titanic Disaster's Aftermath
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 6 to 7
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   7.39

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    unsinkable, maiden, grisly, embalm, identification, steerage, hailed, tragedy, fitted, solution, identify, satellite, assignment, insure, explosion, attempt
     content words:    White Star Line, John Henry Barnstead, Deputy Registrar, Mayflower Curling Rink

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The Titanic Disaster's Aftermath
By Mary Lynn Bushong 		  
1     Large swells rocked the Mackay-Bennet. Her arrival at the disaster site was none too soon. In her hold were 100 tons of ice as well as canvas, iron bars, coffins, and embalming solution.
 
2     Three days had passed since they had left Halifax on this grisly assignment. Tomorrow, they would start pulling bodies from the ocean.
 
3     The Titanic was hailed as the unsinkable ship. Yet, of the 2,200 people aboard for her maiden voyage, only 705 people survived after she struck the iceberg and sank.
 
4     The sailors on the Mackay-Bennet pulled 306 bodies from the water. There was not enough embalming fluid to preserve them all, and they could not return to Halifax unpreserved.

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