On the 15th of April 1912, the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 107 years ago on this day - resulting in more than 1,500 people losing their life.
The Titanic sank in the early morning hours of the 15th of April 1912 at 2.20am (the ships time), after hitting an iceberg late in the evening of the 14th of April 1912 at 11.40pm. The ship, which was thought to be ‘’practically unsinkable’’ took a little less that three hours to be completely submerged by the Atlantic Ocean: the Atlantic Ocean is where the Titanic struck and iceberg and sank into the Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg. The Titanic’s maiden voyage began on the 10th of April 1912. The Titanic’s maiden voyage began in Southampton in England. After leaving England at noon on the 10th of April 1912, the Titanic’s next port of call was Cherbourg in France. Titanic arrived in Cherbourg, France later that evening. on the 10th of April. She did not stay long in Cherbourg, and after departing from Cherbourg, Titanic left to stop at her final port of call - Queenstown in Ireland.
Titanic arrived in Queenstown on the following day, the 11th of April 1912. While in Queenstown, the Titanic picked up her final passengers which boarded the ship in Queenstown, at Cork Harbour, before setting sail out into the Atlantic Ocean. Most of Titanic’s journey during the 11th of April 1912, and the 12th and 13th of April 1912, was a normal and typical maiden voyage. Nothing drastic or alarming happened in those days.
But that changed on the 14th of April 1912, when Titanic received numerous ice, growler and iceberg warnings throughout the day of the 14th of April 1912. The first iceberg warning that Titanic received that day was at 9am from the Caronia. Several other iceberg warnings were given to the Titanic throughout that day. The Titanic’s final iceberg warning came just around one hour before she hit the iceberg - that iceberg warning was from the Californian, which had informed the Titanic that they had stopped for the night due to ice in the area - a warning that was dismissed by the Titanic’s wireless operator, Jack Phillips, who was busy with other messages.
Around an hour later, at 11.39pm in the crows nest, Frederick Fleet spotted the iceberg that Titanic was heading towards. It was too late for the crew to do anything by the time Fredrick Fleet spotted the iceberg. Just seconds later after Fredrick Fleet spotted the iceberg, at 11.40pm, Titanic struck the iceberg. It took just under three hours for the Titanic to sink at 2.20am. Most of the passengers and crew sadly died as a result of the collision. While just over 700 of Titanic’s passengers, and some crew members, survived Titanic’s collision.
Those who survived the collision, had to wait around two hours before help arrived: the Carpathia was the ship that rescued Titanic’s survivors at around 4am on the morning of the 15th of April 1912.
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