RMS Titanic (point of collision)
Canada /
Newfoundland and Labrador /
Goulds /
World
/ Canada
/ Newfoundland and Labrador
/ Goulds
World
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"Titanic" (RMS Titanic) - an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by British shipping company White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom. For her time, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world.
She departed on her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, colliding with an iceberg shortly before midnight on April 14; it took just 2 hours of 40 minutes for her to sink. Of 1,317 passengers and 891 crew, only 712 survived. The media frenzy surrounding Titanic's famous victims, the legends about the sinking, the resulting changes to maritime law and the discovery of the wreck in 1985 have contributed to the continuing interest in, and notoriety of, the Titanic. Numerous books have been written and several films both dramatic and documentary have been made.
The last known survivor of the Titanic died on June 1, 2009 at the age of 97. Milvina Dean (who was just nine weeks old at the time of the wreck) died in her sleep in a nursing home in Southampton, which, coincidentally, is the port from which the Titanic departed for New York.
New Titanic images:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118217/New-Titanic-im...
Additions to description:
www.titanic-titanic.com/titanic_wreck_location.shtml . This site Heavily documents Robert Ballard's finding of the Titanic. Well worth the read.
Location of the bow: 49 degrees 56 minutes 49 seconds west, 41 degrees 43 minutes 47 seconds north.
Location of the stern: 49 degrees 56 minutes 54 seconds west, 41 degrees 43 minutes 35 seconds north.
Location of heavier wreckage: Location of the bow: 49 degrees 56 minutes 49 seconds west, 41 degrees 43 minutes 32 seconds north.
For great info on Titanic artifacts check these two sites:
www.rmstitanic.net/
www.sdnhm.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/titanic-t...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic . This site has a great deal of detail about the history of Titanic and White Star Ship Line.
Titanic received a series of warnings from other ships of drifting ice in the area of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.[113] Nonetheless the ship continued to steam at full speed, which was standard practice at the time.[114] It was generally believed that ice posed little danger to large vessels and Captain Smith himself had declared that he could not "imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder."
At 11.40 pm (ship's time), lookout Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. First Officer William Murdoch ordered the ship to be steered around the obstacle and the engines to be put in reverse, but it was too late; the starboard side of Titanic struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline. Five of the ship's watertight compartments were breached. It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as she could not survive more than four compartments being flooded. Titanic began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment as her angle in the water became steeper.
Those aboard Titanic were ill-prepared for such an emergency. The ship's lifeboats only had enough space to carry about half of those on board; if the ship had carried its full complement, only about a third could have been accommodated in the lifeboats. The crew had not been trained adequately in carrying out an evacuation. The officers did not know how many they could safely put aboard the lifeboats and launched many of them barely half-full. Third-class passengers were largely left to fend for themselves, causing many of them to become trapped below decks as the ship filled with water. A "women and children first" protocol was generally followed for the loading of the lifeboats and most of the male passengers and crew were left aboard.
Two hours and forty minutes after Titanic struck the iceberg, her rate of sinking suddenly increased as her forward deck dipped underwater and the sea poured in through open hatches and grates. As her unsupported stern rose out of the water, exposing the propellers, the ship split apart between the third and fourth funnels due to the immense strain on the keel. The stern remained afloat for a few minutes longer, rising to a nearly vertical angle with hundreds of people still clinging to it. At 2.20 am, it sank, breaking loose from the bow section. The remaining passengers and crew were plunged into lethally cold water with a temperature of only 28 °F (−2 °C). Almost all of those in the water died of hypothermia or cardiac arrest within minutes or drowned. Only 13 of them were helped into the lifeboats though these had room for almost 500 more occupants.
Distress signals were sent by wireless, rockets and lamp, but none of the ships that responded were near enough to reach her before she sank. A nearby ship, the Californian, which was the last to have been in contact with her before the collision, saw her flares but failed to assist. Around 4 am, RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene in response to Titanic's earlier distress calls. 712 people survived the disaster and were conveyed by Carpathia to New York, Titanic's original destination, while 1,496 people lost their lives.
She departed on her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, colliding with an iceberg shortly before midnight on April 14; it took just 2 hours of 40 minutes for her to sink. Of 1,317 passengers and 891 crew, only 712 survived. The media frenzy surrounding Titanic's famous victims, the legends about the sinking, the resulting changes to maritime law and the discovery of the wreck in 1985 have contributed to the continuing interest in, and notoriety of, the Titanic. Numerous books have been written and several films both dramatic and documentary have been made.
The last known survivor of the Titanic died on June 1, 2009 at the age of 97. Milvina Dean (who was just nine weeks old at the time of the wreck) died in her sleep in a nursing home in Southampton, which, coincidentally, is the port from which the Titanic departed for New York.
New Titanic images:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118217/New-Titanic-im...
Additions to description:
www.titanic-titanic.com/titanic_wreck_location.shtml . This site Heavily documents Robert Ballard's finding of the Titanic. Well worth the read.
Location of the bow: 49 degrees 56 minutes 49 seconds west, 41 degrees 43 minutes 47 seconds north.
Location of the stern: 49 degrees 56 minutes 54 seconds west, 41 degrees 43 minutes 35 seconds north.
Location of heavier wreckage: Location of the bow: 49 degrees 56 minutes 49 seconds west, 41 degrees 43 minutes 32 seconds north.
For great info on Titanic artifacts check these two sites:
www.rmstitanic.net/
www.sdnhm.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/titanic-t...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic . This site has a great deal of detail about the history of Titanic and White Star Ship Line.
Titanic received a series of warnings from other ships of drifting ice in the area of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.[113] Nonetheless the ship continued to steam at full speed, which was standard practice at the time.[114] It was generally believed that ice posed little danger to large vessels and Captain Smith himself had declared that he could not "imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder."
At 11.40 pm (ship's time), lookout Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. First Officer William Murdoch ordered the ship to be steered around the obstacle and the engines to be put in reverse, but it was too late; the starboard side of Titanic struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline. Five of the ship's watertight compartments were breached. It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as she could not survive more than four compartments being flooded. Titanic began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment as her angle in the water became steeper.
Those aboard Titanic were ill-prepared for such an emergency. The ship's lifeboats only had enough space to carry about half of those on board; if the ship had carried its full complement, only about a third could have been accommodated in the lifeboats. The crew had not been trained adequately in carrying out an evacuation. The officers did not know how many they could safely put aboard the lifeboats and launched many of them barely half-full. Third-class passengers were largely left to fend for themselves, causing many of them to become trapped below decks as the ship filled with water. A "women and children first" protocol was generally followed for the loading of the lifeboats and most of the male passengers and crew were left aboard.
Two hours and forty minutes after Titanic struck the iceberg, her rate of sinking suddenly increased as her forward deck dipped underwater and the sea poured in through open hatches and grates. As her unsupported stern rose out of the water, exposing the propellers, the ship split apart between the third and fourth funnels due to the immense strain on the keel. The stern remained afloat for a few minutes longer, rising to a nearly vertical angle with hundreds of people still clinging to it. At 2.20 am, it sank, breaking loose from the bow section. The remaining passengers and crew were plunged into lethally cold water with a temperature of only 28 °F (−2 °C). Almost all of those in the water died of hypothermia or cardiac arrest within minutes or drowned. Only 13 of them were helped into the lifeboats though these had room for almost 500 more occupants.
Distress signals were sent by wireless, rockets and lamp, but none of the ships that responded were near enough to reach her before she sank. A nearby ship, the Californian, which was the last to have been in contact with her before the collision, saw her flares but failed to assist. Around 4 am, RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene in response to Titanic's earlier distress calls. 712 people survived the disaster and were conveyed by Carpathia to New York, Titanic's original destination, while 1,496 people lost their lives.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°43'52"N 49°56'42"W
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