The New York almost collides with the Titanic.
Departs from Cherbourg at 8.00 PM sailing down the English Channel heading towards the South coast of Ireland.
Thursday, April 11th 1912, arriving in Queenstown (Cobh), South of Ireland, at 11.30 AM, the ship departs Queenstown at around 1:30 PM.
R.M.S. Titanic now sets off on her maiden voyage across the North Atlantic.
The weather is clear, the seas calm, on Thursday, April 11th and Friday, April 12th.
On Saturday April 13th, as Titanic approaches the mid-Atlantic, Bruce Ismay seems determined to beat the crossing times set by Titanic’s sister ship the Olympic, and to make New York a day early. Titanic increases speed to more than 22 knots.
At 9 A.M. > Sunday, April 14, Cunard liner Caronia sends a message reporting icebergs, growlers (smaller bergs) and field ice in the area.
At 11:40 A.M. > Dutch liner Noordam reports ice in much the same position as noted by “Caronia” also “Amerika” reports two large icebergs in the same area at 1:45 P.M.
At 5 P.M. > Titanic reaches the “corner”, a navigational reference point at 42 degrees N, 47 degrees, where Capt. Smith delays the turn to New York, probably due to earlier ice warnings, and makes the corner 50 minutes later and 16 miles farther southwest.
At 11 A.M.,> An ice warning from the “Californian” is intercepted.
At 9:30 P.M. > Captain Smith retires to his cabin for the night.
10:00 P.M. > Titanic is approaching a field of ice and bergs several miles wide.
Californian sends messages at 11 P.M. that it is stopped and surrounded by ice, and by 11:35 P.M. the Californian’s wireless room shuts down.
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11:39 P.M. > Lookout Frederick Fleet spots a black object in their path.
11.40 P.M. > Titanic collides with the iceberg, scrapes its side under the water line opening its first five compartments (75 metres).
11:50. P.M. > The water is already 14-feet above the keel in the first five compartments.
12:00 A.M. Thomas Andrews makes his report to Captain Smith shortly after midnight. “Titanic is doomed."
12:05 A.M. > Smith gives the order to prepare the lifeboats, Second Officer Lightoller is in command of the starboard side, First Officer Murdoch in charge of the Port side, along with Fifth Officer Harold Lowe and Sixth Officer James Moody helping where ever they could, the order to prepare the lifeboats was overseen by Chief Officer Henry Wilde. Water reaches steerage rooms on G-deck.
12:15 A.M. > Captain Smith tells the wireless operators to send the distress call C.D.Q. from MGY (Titanic) and finally the new distress call S.O.S. About 12:15 A.M. several passengers and crew see the lights of another ship, perhaps as close as 6 miles away (This we now know was the Leyland Line steamer Californian). lifeboat No. 7 with 28 people aboard becomes the first to get away. The squash court gets wet.
12:17 A.M. > Carpathia receives distress message. C.D.Q. Responses also will come from the Ypiranga, Frankfurt, Baltic, Caronia, Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, Mount Temple and Titanic’s sister ship, Olympic, later on untill 2:05 a.m.
12:20 A.M. > Second Officer Lightoller lowers lifeboat No. 6 with 28 people aboard.
12:30 A.M. > The water has yet come into the crew's cabins, on E-deck in front.
12:35 A.M. > Lifeboat No. 3 with 32 people aboard, is lowered.
12:40 A.M. > Second Officer Lightoller, lowers boat No. 12 with 30 people aboard.
12:45 A.M. > Joseph Boxhall fires the first of eight distress rockets and repeats the act every five minutes. The bow starts slenting forward more clearly now, and lays already very deep now.
12:55 A.M. > Lifeboat No. 1, with a capacity of 40, has only 12 aboard. 1:00 A.M. > Second Officer Lightoller lowers lifeboat No. 8 with 28 people aboard.
1:00 A.M. > Water reaches Titanic's name on the bow, enters C-deck. Watertight bulkhead between
Boiler room 5 and 6 is tested by the pressure on the other side, the damage by the coal fire, and gives away.
The flooding speeds up and on E-deck, Scotland Road gives water free way. The Titanic stops lurching her tiny list to starboard.
1:05 A.M. > Lifeboat No. 10 with 35 people aboard, leaves the ship.
1.10 A.M. > No. 9 is lowered, this time with 56 people aboard.
1:15 A.M. > Titanic lurches 1 or 2 degrees to port, the deck tilting. Her forecastle sinks.
1:15 A.M. > Lifeboat No. 2 is lowered with 25 people aboard.
1.20 A.M. > Lifeboat No. 4 leaves the ship. 30 people are taken with it.
1.25 A.M. > Sixth Officer James Moody lowers boat No. 13 with 65 people aboard.
1.30 A.M. > Fifth Officer Harold Lowe brandishes his gun to deter men from rushing boat No. 14; it finally gets away with 58 people aboard. Water reached and overflowes B-deck. Lifeboats No. 16 and No. 15 are lowered, this time with 40 and 65 people aboard respectively. Under the rush to escape, boat No. 13 is almost crushed when it is washed under the descending boat No. 15.
1:35 A.M. > First Officer Murdoch gets lifeboat No. 11 away with over 70 people aboard.
It is 1:40 A.M., and collapsible boat C is two-thirds full when a group of passengers try to storm it, Chief Purser Hugh McElroy fires his pistol twice skywards to try to attain some attention. Bruce Ismay, White Star director, climbs aboard the boat as it is lowered with 44 people aboard, an action that will bring vilification later.
1:40 A.M. > Collapsible D, with 22 women and children is lowered, First Officer Lightoller draws his revolver to keep the men from rushing the boat. Passengers Hugh Woolner and Mauritz Hakan Bjornstrom-Steffanson make a jump for it, taking places 23 and 24 of the 47 available.
1:40 A.M. > The mystery ship (Leyland Line steamer Californian) turns away or is no longer visible.
1:50 A.M. > The sea comes over the promenade deck, deck A. People begin to understand know that Titanic can't last very long. There's only 2 collapsibles left, but the crew must find a way to get both the boats of the roof of the officars quarters.
2.10 A.M. > Captain Smith goes to the wireless cabin and releases Phillips and Bride. Phillips continues to work while Bride gathers their papers before they leave. The water reaches the rim of the bridge rail.
2.13 A.M. > Crewmen struggle to free Collapsible B and A on the roof of the officer’s quarters. They eventually float off the ship, overturned, and later saves more than a dozen men from the freezing water who balance and cling to its curved hull in the ice bound Atlantic, Captain Smith is last seen in the bridge, the water up to his waist, his hands on the wheel. Philadelphia banker Robert W. Daniel describes it. "I saw Captain Smith in the bridge. My eyes seemingly clung to him. The deck from which I had leapt was immersed. The water had broken though the windows, and was now sweeping into the bridge. Then it was to Captain Smith's waist. I saw him no more. He died a hero." Just by then, the water comes settling over the boat deck, the bridge quickly goes under and the boats float away.
2:15 A.M. > Many people are washed of the deck and fight to get into the collapsibles, but some occupants push them back. Meanwhile, water reached funnel no #1, and its cords snap, causing it to fall and crush the superstructure of the bridge, and on some swimmers.
The rapid move of the water now reaches Funnel 2, but it doesn't fall yet. Thomas Andrews is last seen standing in the first–class smoking room staring at a painting, "Plymouth Harbour", above the fireplace, his lifejacket lying on a nearby table. The proppelors now come out to the waters, the stern starts rising. In three minutes it reaches an angle of 23 degrees.
2:18 A.M. > The stern reaches up to 23 degrees. Just half of the ship is out of the water. An increasing roar is heard by those in the boats, as everything movable in the ship breaks loose and crashes forward against walls and bulkheads. Some even fall to the submerged part. The ships lights until now have been kept on only by the efforts of those heroic engineers, suddenly go out, flash once more and are then extinguished for good. Shortly after that, the pressure and gravity on the stern is too much to handle.
So it breaks off from the top to the keel, where the break-up stops. The double bottom is all what is holding Titanic together. The stern falls almost back level.
2:19 A.M. > The stern rapidly floods with water now, and the submerging front section pulls her via the keel back in the air, untill see almost goes straight up. As the front section is sunk, the stern floods, and rises in the air quickly till she reaches 90 degrees. The bow finally gets entirely loose, and goes down to the bottom. 2:20 A.M. > RMS Titanic's stern holds still for half a minute, right-up, but then goes down and takes 1514 lives along, some still inside it's body. Others die in the icy water. The ship is now officially lost.
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4:00 A.M. > The survivors are picked up by the RMS Carpathia.
7 May 1915 > Titanics main rival, the Lusitania, goes down and takes 1100 souls, 128 American, with her to the bottom of the Irish Sea, and the number of survivors is exactly the same as on Titanic. She was torpedoed by a German submarine U-20 and only lasted 18 minutes after that.
21 November 1916 >Titanic, still on the bottom of the Atlantic, loses her other sister, the new Britannic. It was torpedoed or struck a mine and sank in just 55 minutes, where as Titanic took 2 hours and 40 minutes. The Britannic had watertight bulkheads up to B-deck. And she was a hospitalship by then. Still, only 30 got killed due to enough lifeboats and the propellers, who sucked in two lifeboats.
17 July 1918 > The Carpathia herself is sunk by an Imperial German Navy U-boat. It killed 5 people.
1935 > The Olympic, after a long service, is demolished at a scrapeyard.
1953 > Launch of the unfamiliar film Titanic.
1958 > Revival of interest in Titanic. A book called "A Night to Remember" comes out. It shows the sinking wrong, but still many people love it. There was also a film coming out.
1979 > Arrival of the film 'SOS Titanic'.
1985 > Robert Ballard locates the position of the two sections. After many years of people who searched and tried to recover it, Titanic is found!
1997 > James Cameron's ultralong Titanic film finally goes in production. It's one of the best films with many historical facts besides fictional characters and shows the sinking accurate in way, time and people.
2012 > 100 Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic.
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