Titanic 1912

Passengers Titanic 2 April 1912 left Southampton with full hope for a new life in USA. But at high speed the Titanic rammed an iceberg On 14 April 1912 around 11.40 pm Fleet, the sailor in the crow's nest, sounded the alarm Soon the ship filled with water and began to sink At 00.45 hours, flares were fired and the rescue of women and children given priority in the sloops in the freezing cold Ship is 3800 meters depth and 1522 of the 2223 passengers and crew died, including Captain Smith.

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Edward J. Smith, the captain of the Titanic, had had a long and successful career with the White Star Line, having been transferred from Titanic’s sister ship, the RMS Olympic, especially for this maiden voyage. His last words to the crew were, “Well boys, do your best for the women and children, and look out for yourself.” Smith was planning on retiring after the voyage

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As seen in the movie, the orchestra played music during the sinking. They were trying their hardest to console the passengers. Most of the time they weren’t playing sad, mournful music: This would be seen as a bad omen and would only create more panic. Instead, they played ragtime and upbeat dance music. Only in the end, when doom was certain, did they begin to play hymns at the request of stranded passengers. There’s debate to this day as to what the band’s final song was.

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14 years before Titanic’s maiden voyage, Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility. It was about the largest ship in the world meeting disaster. In the fictional story, the ship was called the Titan. Its measurements were nearly identical to Titanic, as were the speeds they were going when they met disaster. Also, both struck an iceberg on the starboard side. Both sank in April, at the exact same location, with as few lifeboats as the law allowed.

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Third class died first. Many of the passengers on the ship were third-class families, looking to start new lives in America. These passengers’ quarters were towards the bottom of the ship, and were among the first to be flooded. There were gates in the stairwells that were locked to keep third class separate from the others. Because the stewards didn’t have time to open all of the gates amidst the chaos, many of these passengers became trapped below decks and drowned

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There were 908 crew members on board Titanic. A higher percentage of the crew members died than any group aside from second- and third-class men. Many of them were lost as the boiler rooms flooded in the initial impact; others were killed trying to save passengers from below decks. All five postmen died trying to save the mail they had been charged to protect.

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Due to a mix-up at the Southampton port, there were no binoculars in the crow’s nest. It didn’t matter much tho given how dark a night it was. Tho it was clear, there was no moon & the water was incredibly smooth & calm, making it impossible to distinguish whether waves were washing up against obstacles ahead. Crewman Frederick Fleet who spotted the iceberg later testified that had he been issued binoculars, “We could have seen it (the iceberg) a bit sooner. Well, enough to get out of the way.”

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Elizabeth Gladys Millvina Dean, Titanic’s youngest surviving passenger, was only 9 months old when she boarded the ship with her mother, father, and her older brother, Bertram. She escaped with her mother and brother, but her father died in the sinking. Her family was supposed to be moving to America, but with the death of her husband, Gladys’ mother decided to move back to Southampton. Millvina was described as being “the darling of the ship” the whole way back to England.