There were both survivors and those who died as a result of Titanic sinking. This included both passengers, and crew. Let us take a look at what happened to the senior crew members of the Titanic. Captain Smith Captain Smith died on the 15th of April 1912. Reports say he stayed on Titanic until the very end. Status: He did not survive. Chief Officer Henry Wilde Chief Officer Henry Wilde also died on the 15th of April 1912. Not much is known about what happened to him. Status: He did not survive Titanic's ill-fated voyage. First Officer Murdoch First Officer Murdoch also died on the 15th of April 1912. There are conflicting reports about what happened to Officer Murdoch in his final moments on Titanic, he was rumoured to have ended his own life, but that rumour was denied by Second Officer Lightoller. Status: He did not survive. Second Officer Charles Lightoller Second Officer Charles Lightoller was one of the senior crew members to survive. He survived on the Collapsible B lifeboat. Charles had a long life after Titanic, he lived to the age of 78 and died in 1952. Status: He survived Titanic. Third Officer Herbert Pitman Like Lightoller, Third Officer Herbert Pitman survived Titanic. He also lived a long life afterwards. Herbert lived until he was 84, and died in 1961. The Titanic tragedy did not put him off sailing, he continued to sail with White Star Line, including sailing on Titanic's sister ship, the RMS Olympic. Status: He survived Titanic. Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall Joseph Boxhall also survived. He also lived a long life after Titanic. Joseph lived until he was 83, and died in April 1967, just a few weeks after his 83rd birthday. He was the last surviving senior officer of Titanic to survive. Status: Survived Titanic. Fifth Officer Henry Lowe Fifth Officer Henry Lowe also survived Titanic. He survived Titanic through going on lifeboat 14. Henry return to the site of Titanic's sinking to help rescue people after putting the survivors that was in his lifeboat on to another lifeboat. Like the other survivors, Henry lived for a few decades after Titanic sank. He married just one year after Titanic's ill-fated voyage, and lived until 1944, dying at the age of 61. Sixth Officer James Moody Finally, the last senior crew member of Titanic, Sixth Officer James Moody, did not survive.
James was another one of the senior crew members of Titanic who died on the 15th of April 1912. The last apparent sighting of James was just before Titanic sank, when he was trying to free a lifeboat. He was the youngest officer of Titanic, and was only 24 when he died. Status: He did not survive.
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On this day in history, the RMS Carpathia reached New York. The RMS Carpathia reached New York on the 18th of April 1912 with the survivors of Titanic. Titanic hit an iceberg at 11.40pm on the 14th of April 1912 and sank into the Atlantic Ocean at 2.20am in the early morning hours of the 15th of April 1912. The RMS Carpathia reached the scene where Titanic had sank several hours later to rescue Titanic's survivors. Carpathia had picked up a wireless distress signal from Titanic just after midnight on the 15th of April, this was as Titanic was in the early stages of sinking. However, Carpathia was sadly too far away from Titanic in time to save everyone. Carpathia was over an hour away from Titanic when she received Titanic's distress signal, upon receiving Titanic's distress signal, the Carpathia made her way straight towards Titanic. Carpathia arrived at the scene of where Titanic sank around 4am on the morning of the 15th of April, where she rescued the survivors of Titanic's ill-fated voyage. It took several hours for Carpathia to rescue Titanic's survivors and bring them on-board, where they were looked after by Carpathia's crew. Carpathia left the wreckage scene around 9am with hundreds of Titanic's survivors and made her way to New York. It took Carpathia several days to reach New York: Carpathia reached New York on the evening of the 18th of April 1917. Carpathia reached New York just hours after Titanic was supposed to reach New York.
If Titanic's maiden voyage been successful, Titanic would have reached New York on the 17th of April 1917. On this day in history, 111 years ago, Titanic began her maiden voyage. Titanic departed from Southampton docks at midday on the 10th of April 1912. Her maiden voyage didn't get off to a good start, as she almost collided with another ship - the SS City of New York - just as her maiden voyage was starting. The Titanic's near collision with the SS City of New York had delayed her departure from Southampton docks. Captain Smith's quick thinking helped stop Titanic colliding with the smaller ship, through him reversing the propeller of Titanic. Titanic's near collision with the the SS City of New York resulted in her departure from Southampton docks being delayed for around one hour. Titanic successfully departed the docks at 1pm. The morning at Southampton docks leading up to Titanic's departure was a busy one. There were hundreds of passengers that boarded Titanic from 9.30am to 11.30am that morning. Second and third class passengers departed Waterloo Station in London at 7.30am on the Titanic boat train. At 9.45am, another Titanic boat train, this time carrying first-class passengers, departed Waterloo Station in London for Southampton. The picture above was taken by Francis Browne. Father Browne was a Jesuit and a photographer. Many of the photos that we have of Titanic are thanks to Francis Browne, he boarded Titanic at Southampton alongside hundreds of other passengers, and departed Titanic at Queenstown, Ireland (today, Queenstown is known as Cobh). Titanic only had two stops after departing Southampton. Her first stop was at Cherbourg, in France. Titanic's second and last stop was at Queenstown, Ireland. Upon leaving Ireland, Titanic sailed across the Atlantic ocean. Her next stopped after leaving Ireland was supposed to be New York in the United States of America, however, Titanic never reached New York, like her sister ship, the Olympic did. Back to the morning at Southampton before Titanic's maiden voyage and, the crew were on-board Titanic before passengers had arrived.
Many of the crew had stayed on Titanic the night before her departure. Titanic's Chief Officer, Officer Henry Wilde, had reported for duty at 6am that morning for a lifeboat drill with other crew members. Captain Smity arrived at 7am that morning to board Titanic. Upon his arrival on Titanic he was given a sailing report by Chief Officer Henry Wilde. While Bruce Ismay, the chairman of White Star Line, the company who helped create Titanic along with Harland & Wolff, arrived to board Titanic at 9.30am that morning. The 10th of April 1912 was just the beginning of Titanic's voyage... On this day in history, Titanic arrived in Southampton.
She had departed Belfast on the 2nd of April 1912 at around 8pm that evening, this was after a full day of sea trials for the Titanic. The sea trials of the Titanic began at 6am on the 2nd of April, lasting around 12 hours that day. She left Belfast that night at around 8pm and headed for Southampton, where her maiden voyage would start one week later. It took Titanic just over a day to reach Southampton; Titanic reached Southampton on the 4th of April 1912 at 12.40pm and was docked at no.44 in the White Star Dock. Titanic on this day is just six days away from beginning her maiden voyage. The story of Titanic's ill-fated voyage feels like it began with her sea trials, when the ship first went out to open sea. The sea trials of the Titanic happened on the 2nd of and 1912. However, her sea trials were supposed to happen the day before, on the 1st of April 1912. However, Titanic's sea trials were postponed on the 1st of April 1912 due to bad weather. An omen of things to come?
When Titanic did have her sea trials on the second of April, it went successfully. She began her sea trials on the morning of the 2nd of April at 6am in Belfast, her sea trials lasted around 12 hours that day.
That night, Titanic arrived back in Belfast docks at around 7PM after being out at sea all day going through a series of tests to make sure she was safe and sea worthy. She passed her sea trials and was deemed to be sea worthy. After a successful day, she was given a certificate that would let her be active a sea for 12 months. Titanic's arrival back at Belfast docks was short lived. She departed Belfast at around 8pm and made her way to Southampton, were she would begin her maiden voyage just a week later.
On this day, Titanic's Lifeboats were tested.
The lifeboats of the Titanic were tested on the 25th of March 1912, just one week before Titanic was due to set sail on her sea trials. Titanic was due to have her sea trials on the 1st of April 1912, however, due to poor weather, her sea trials were delayed for a day, and instead went ahead on the 2nd of April.
Titanic's Lifeboats were tested to ensure they were strong enough to hold passengers, the lifeboats were lowered into the water at Belfast to test their strength and operation.
To test the lifeboats, the lifeboats were filled up with yard workers, who helped test the strength and function of the boats. The lifeboats were tested under davit (a small crane that's put on a ship to help lower down lifeboats), each boat held 70 men. The 25th of March 1912 was an important day for the Titanic, as it was the day her lifesaving equipment was tested: all 16 of Titanic's Lifeboats were lowered and tested that day.
In total, Titanic had 20 lifeboats, 16 of these lifeboats were normal lifeboats and 4 of them were collapsible lifeboats.
Of these 20 lifeboats, there were three different types (design) of lifeboats - two of these lifeboats were wooden cutters and 14 were clinker -built lifeboats, these 16 lifeboats made up the normal lifeboats. While the other 4 lifeboats were collapsible lifeboats. Although Titanic is infamous for not having enough lifeboats for everyone on-board on the night of her sinking, Titanic actually had more lifeboats on-board than was legally required at the time. Titanic's Lifeboats had the capacity to hold 1178, however, with many more passengers and crew on-board, there was not enough lifeboats for everyone. Sadly, there was also room for more lifeboats on-board the Titanic. Sources: https://www.titanicbelfast.com/history-of-titanic/on-this-day/25th-march-1912/ https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-titanic-lifeboats
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The Construction Of the Titanic gave the world one of the world's most remarkable ships.
Titanic was luxurious. It was a giant that towered over Belfast docks in 1912. But, her story began several years beforehand, in 1907. It was in 1907 that the dream of creating Titanic was born, when White Star Line - a shipping company - planned to construct three different ships. The three ships were built by Harland & Wolff. Those three ships that were built were - the RMS Titanic, her sister ship the RMS Olympic and the HMHS Britannic.
Drawings of what would become the Titanic were created and presented to Bruce Ismay of White Star Line during the summer of 1908. Bruce Ismay approved of the design that was presented to him. Days later, the construction of Titanic began.
Part of the construction of Titanic happened beside her sister ship, the RMS Olympic. The last time the two ships seen each was in early March 1912, when Olympic was being repaired at Belfast docks and Titanic was almost ready for her maiden voyage: that ill-fated voyage happened just weeks later.
This year is a milestone year in the history of the RMS Titanic, as it will mark the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
Titanic hit an iceberg just before midnight on the 11th of April 1912. She then sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean over two hours later on the 12th of April. It was a shocking event. The sinking of the Titanic has become one of the most famous (or infamous) events that happened during the 20th century. People are as fascinated today about the Titanic, as they were back in 1912. The following weeks will lead up to Titanic's maiden voyage in April. Titanic's maiden voyage will begin on the 10th of April. Stay tuned for more Titanic!
The 17th of April 1912.
On this day in history in Titanic's story, she was due to reach New York on the 17th of April 1912. Due to the Titanic tragically colliding with an iceberg on the 14th of April 1912 and then sinking in the early morning hours of the 15th of April 1912, she never reached New York. Instead, Titanic's final resting place became the Atlantic ocean, where she rests to this day, 109 years after she sank. Titanic was due to reach New York on the morning of the 17th of April 1912, however, due to her sinking into the Atlantic ocean on the 15th of April 1912 she never made it to New York. If Titanic's maiden voyage was successful, she would have reached New York on the 17th of April 1912 and docked at Chelsea pier, pier no.59 in New York. |
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