Titanic Sinks

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At 11:55, Captain Smith order junior wireless operator Harold Bride and senior operator Jack Phillips to start sending out distress signals. Bride insists that Phillips use the new Morse Code call SOS, joking that it might be his last chance. At this point, the Californian is the ship closest to the Titanic, but her wireless transmitter is shut off; she neither sends nor receives messages. The ships that do respond to Bride and Phillips’ calls are the Baltic, Olympic, and Carpathia.

At midnight, Smith orders the lifeboats uncovered and at 12:25 A.M., the Titanic’s officers see lights of a nearby ship 5 miles away and try to signal it, unsuccessfully on Morse lamp. It is now that the Carpathia contacts the Titanic who replies to their call that says: “Come at once. We have struck a berg and require immediate assistance.” The Carpathia says she is 58 miles away and “coming hard.” Captain Rostron of Carpathia orders an increase in speed, a change of course, and the firing of signal rockets at fifteen-minute intervals.

Now 2:17, the ship's orchestra who has been playing through this whole ordeal to calm the passengers, is forced to stop playing due to the slant of the deck.

At 2:10, Captain Smith relieves the wireless operators but Bride and Phillips remain and continue to tirelessly transmit distress signals.

Captain Edward J. Smith summons the Titanic’s designer Thomas Andrews who arrives at the bridge at 11:45. After assessing the damage, Andrews reports that the ship has only hours before she sinks. Chairman of the White Star Line, owner of Titanic, J. Bruce Ismay arrives and is informed of the situation.

At 12:45, the first distress rockets start being fired at 5-minute intervals, as well as the first lifeboat (#7) is lowered. Lifeboat #7 had a capacity of 65, yet on this night held 8 women, 10 men, and 3 crew for a grand total of 21 out of a possible 65 passengers. As the lifeboat #7 is lowered and the first rockets are fired, senior wireless operator Jack Phillips sent the first SOS signal ever to be transmitted from a ship in danger.

It's now 1:40 and as the last distress rockets are being fired, collapsible C is lowered. Including Ismay, collapsible C contained 31 women, 2 men, and 2 crew for a total 43 out of 47.

At 1:27, after more lifeboats are lowered, Titanic transmits a message saying, "We are putting off the women in boats."

Finally, at 2:20 A.M. April 15, 1912, the stern portion sinks beneath the waves after bobbing at the surface for a couple of minutes. This is known as the true sinking time of Titanic.

At 3:05, the sound of people struggling in the water cease, most suffered from hypothermia.

And at 3:35 the Carpathia's rockets are sighted by the lifeboats, 1 hour and 15 minutes after the sinking.

At 2:18, the lights go out completely and due to the stress of the slant, the bow and stern break apart at the keel. The bow plunges down to the bottom of the ocean after hanging on the stern for a minute, attached by the double bottom.

The survivors from the boats are taken aboard the Carpathia, and at 8:50 the Carpathia and the survivors of Titanic head for New York.

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At 11:40 P.M. on April 14, 1912, lookout Frederic Fleet sees an object, a black mass, in the distance. It’s small at first, but grows larger as the Titanic bears down on it. Fleet rings the crow’s nest bell three times and reports to the bridge: “Iceberg right ahead.” The officer thanks Fleet, and the warning is passed on to first officer William Murdoch. Murdoch then closes the watertight doors to the boiler and engine rooms and tries to maneuver the ship in an S like shape, hoping to avoid collision. This maneuver fails and the Titanic strikes the submerged portion of an iceberg weighing, possibly, half a million tons. Murdoch then veered the ship to port, already going about 22 knots, sideswiping the iceberg, then ports around it trying to keep from hitting the propellers.

Whith only 12 occupants on board, lifeboat number 1 was the most underfilled boat to be lowered. With 5 more than their 65 passenger capacity each (70), boats 15 and 11 were the most filled.

Although the exact number is uncertain it is said that out of 2,226 passengers, 1,517 lost their lives and 706 were lucky enough to be rescued by the Carpathia

"If they had turned back several hundred more would have been saved. No one can explain it."-A Passenger

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"It was as though we went over about a thousand marbles."-Mrs J. Stuart White

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