On this day in history, 109 years ago, the Titanic's maiden voyage came to a dramatic and catastrophic end.
Her maiden voyage began only five days earlier, on the 10th of April 1912. She set sail on her maiden voyage at midday that day from Southampton, in England. A few minutes after her maiden voyage - while she was starting to leave Southampton docks - Titanic almost collided with another ship called the SS City of New York. It was thanks to Captain Smith's quick actions that Titanic was stopped from colliding with the SS City of New York, however, it postponed Titanic leaving Southampton docks for a further hour.
Titanic then left Southampton for Cherbourg in France.
Titanic arrived in Cherbourg just after 6 pm that same evening. While at Cherbourg, a few passengers got off Titanic while several got on. Her stop at Cherbourg wasn't long. Titanic laid down her anchor at around 8 pm on the evening of the 10th of April 1912. She then set sail from Cherbourg to Queenstown in Ireland. Queenstown was the last stop of the Titanic. It was supposed to be the last stop before she reached New York, however, Queenstown ended up being the last ever stop Titanic would make and the last ever time she would see dry land - she never reached New York.
Titanic arrived at Cork Harbour, in Queenstown, at 11.30 am on the 11th of April 1912. While there, several passengers got off the Titanic, including Father Francis Browne, who took some of Titanic's most famous photographs while he was on the ship. Other passengers boarded the Titanic at Queenstown and post was also taken on board the ship.
Titanic then left Queenstown at 1.30 pm that day. She then set sail out into the Atlantic ocean. The first few days of her maiden voyage was fairly normal and went smoothly. On the 14th of April 1912, the Titanic's journey would go down in history. She received numerous iceberg warnings throughout the 14th of April, right up until about two hours before she hit the iceberg. Despite the numerous iceberg warnings that Titanic received that day from other ships, she never slowed down and kept speeding through icy waters, then the result was her tragically striking the iceberg at 11. 40pm that evening.
The lookouts in the crows' nest of Titanic - a part of the ship where the crew would look out for things like icebergs - did not have any binoculars that evening. They only spotted the iceberg at 11.39 pm - just a few seconds before the Titanic struck the iceberg. There wasn't time to think about how the ship could avert disaster, Titanic had struck the iceberg probably before the crew had known what hit them, within the space of a minute.
Captain Smith and other crew members went to the bridge immediately after the Titanic struck the iceberg. It took Titanic 2 hours and forty minutes after she had struck the iceberg to completely sink to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean at 2.20 am on the 15th of April 1912.
Most of the passengers died in the tragic ending of Titanic, however, there were also survivors. The survivors waited in the lifeboats until they were rescued by the ship the RMS Carpathia. Titanic's survivors first seen the lights of the RMS Carpathia approaching at 3.30 am that morning; Carpathia reached them at 4 am and started to help Titanic's survivors on-board. The last of Titanic's survivors came on-board the Carpathia at 8.30 am.
Other ships also arrived at the wreckage site at this time, including the Californian ship, these ships helped look for survivors. Carpathia then left and made her way to New York City. She reached New York City on the 18th of April 1912 at 9.25 pm at Pier 54. Had Titanic's maiden voyage went the way that it was supposed to, she would have arrived in New York City a day earlier. Titanic was due to arrive in New York on the morning of the 17th of April 1912. She would have docked at pier no.60 if she had reached New York. Sadly, she did not. This year marks 109 years since the Titanic struck the iceberg and sank into the Atlantic ocean. Rest in peace to all those who lost their lives on the Titanic. You can follow Titanic's journey on Twitter @events_bl
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