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Why the Titanic Still Fascinates Us | History | Smithsonian MagazineSuperstitious Titanic buffs sometimes point to this as the worst kind of omen for a ship departing on her maiden voyage. On April 14, after fourdays of uneventful sailing, Titanic received sporadic reports of ice from other ships, but she was sailing on calm seas under a moonless, clear sky.At about p. The engines were quickly reversed and the ship was turned sharply—instead of making direct impact, Titanic seemed to graze alongthe side of the berg, sprinkling ice fragments on the forward deck. Sensing no collision, the lookouts were relieved. Andrews did a quickcalculation and estimated that Titanic might remain afloat for an hour and a half, perhaps slightly more.

At that point the captain, who had already instructed his wireless operator to call for help, ordered the lifeboats to be loaded. A little more than anhour after contact with the iceberg, a largely disorganized and haphazard evacuation began with the lowering of the first lifeboat. The craft wasdesigned to hold 65 people; it left with only 28 aboard. Tragically, this was to be the norm: During the confusion and chaos during the precioushours before Titanic plunged into the sea, nearly every lifeboat would be launched woefully under-filled, some with only a handful of passengers. Incompliance with the law of the sea, women and children boarded the boats first; only when there were no women or children nearby were menpermitted to board. Yet many of the victims were in fact women and children, the result of disorderly procedures that failed to get them to theboats in the first place.

Those hours witnessed acts of craven cowardice and extraordinary bravery. In the end, people survived the sinking of the Titanic. Ismay, theWhite Star managing director, helped load some of the boats and later stepped onto a collapsible as it was being lowered. Although no women orchildren were in the vicinity when he abandoned ship, he would never live down the ignominy of surviving the disaster while so many othersperished. Astor deposited his wife Madeleine into a lifeboat and, remarking that she was pregnant, asked if he could accompany her; refusedentry, he managed to kiss her goodbye just before the boat was lowered away. Although offered a seat on account of his age, Isidor Strausrefused any special consideration, and his wife Ida would not leave her husband behind.

The couple retired to their cabin and perished together. Molly Brown helped load the boats and finally was forced into one of the last to leave. Sheimplored its crewmen to turn back for survivors, but they refused, fearing they would be swamped by desperate people trying to escape the icyseas. They contained only survivors. Every conceivable subject was investigated, from the conduct of the officers and crew to the construction ofthe ship. Titanic conspiracy theories abounded. Newspapers initially reported that the ship had collided with an iceberg but remained afloat andwas being towed to port with everyone on board.

It took many hours for accurate accounts to become widely available, and even then people had trouble accepting that this paragon of moderntechnology could sink on her maiden voyage, taking more than 1, souls with her. In that case, the world reeled at the notion that one of the mostsophisticated inventions ever created could explode into oblivion along with its crew. Both tragedies triggered a sudden collapse in confidence,revealing that we remain subject to human frailties and error, despite our hubris and a belief in technological infallibility. But if you see somethingthat doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. The R. Titanic has gone downas one of the most famous ships in history for its lavish design and tragic fate.

It was a massive 46,ton ship, measuring feet long and feet high. The "Ship of Dreams" included a swimming pool, gym, Turkish baths, a Pivotalevents have a way of attracting harmful myths and conspiracy theories. Four days into the journey, at about p. One crew member later comparedthe sound of the When the RMS Titanic disappeared beneath the dark waves of the North Atlantic in the early morning hours of April 15, , it leftmany mysteries in its wake. One of the most puzzling, even now, was the behavior of the passengers and crew.

Why did so many people on board act so There will be a record number of women in Congress. When the th Congress begins on January 3, it willhave a record-breaking women. The much-heralded ocean liner, on its glamorous five-day maiden voyage from Southampton, England to NewYork City, headed out across the Atlantic on April 10, , counting among its passengers the The White Star Line faced an increasing challenge fromits main rivals Cunard , which had recently launched the Lusitania and the Mauretania —the fastest passenger ships then in service—and theGerman lines Hamburg America and Norddeutscher Lloyd.

Ismay preferred to compete on size rather than speed and proposed to commission a new class of liners that would be larger than anything thathad gone before as well as being the last word in comfort and luxury. Teutonic was replaced by Olympic while Majestic was replaced by Titanic.The ships were constructed by the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff , who had a long-established relationship with the White Star Line datingback to Cost considerations were relatively low on the agenda and Harland and Wolff was authorised to spend what it needed on the ships, plus afive percent profit margin. Harland and Wolff put their leading designers to work designing the Olympic -class vessels. The design was overseen byLord Pirrie , a director of both Harland and Wolff and the White Star Line; naval architect Thomas Andrews , the managing director of Harlandand Wolff's design department; Edward Wilding, Andrews' deputy and responsible for calculating the ship's design, stability and trim; andAlexander Carlisle , the shipyard's chief draughtsman and general manager.

On 29 July , Harland and Wolff presented the drawings to J. Bruce Ismay and other White Star Line executives. Ismay approved the design andsigned three "letters of agreement" two days later, authorising the start of construction. Titanic was based on a revised version of the same designand was given the number Titanic was feet 9 inches Her total height, measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge, was feet 32 m.All three of the Olympic -class ships had ten decks excluding the top of the officers' quarters , eight of which were for passenger use. From top tobottom, the decks were:.

Titanic was equipped with three main engines—two reciprocating four- cylinder , triple-expansion steam engines and one centrally placed low-pressure Parsons turbine —each driving a propeller. The two reciprocating engines had a combined output of 30, horsepower 22, kW. The outputof the steam turbine was 16, horsepower 12, kW. The two reciprocating engines were each 63 feet 19 m long and weighed tons, with theirbedplates contributing a further tons.

They were heated by burning coal, 6, tons of which could be carried in Titanic ' s bunkers , with a further 1, tons in Hold 3. The furnaces requiredover tons of coal a day to be shovelled into them by hand, requiring the services of firemen working around the clock. Exhaust steam leaving thereciprocating engines was fed into the turbine, which was situated aft. From there it passed into a surface condenser , to increase the efficiency ofthe turbine and so that the steam could be condensed back into water and reused. There were three, one for each engine; the outer or wingpropellers were the largest, each carrying three blades of manganese-bronze alloy with a total diameter of Titanic ' s electrical plant was capable ofproducing more power than an average city power station of the time. Titanic lacked a searchlight in accordance with the ban on the use ofsearchlights in the merchant navy. The interiors of the Olympic -class ships were subdivided into 16 primary compartments divided by 15bulkheads that extended above the waterline.

Eleven vertically closing watertight doors could seal off the compartments in the event of an emergency. Two masts, each ft 47 m high, supportedderricks for working cargo. Titanic ' s rudder was so large—at 78 feet 8 inches Two steam-powered steering engines were installed, though onlyone was used at any one time, with the other one kept in reserve.

They were connected to the short tiller through stiff springs, to isolate the steering engines from any shocks in heavy seas or during fast changes ofdirection. The ship was equipped with her own waterworks, capable of heating and pumping water to all parts of the vessel via a complex networkof pipes and valves. The main water supply was taken aboard while Titanic was in port, but in an emergency, the ship could also distil fresh waterfrom seawater, though this was not a straightforward process as the distillation plant quickly became clogged by salt deposits. A network ofinsulated ducts conveyed warm air, driven by electric fans, around the ship, and First Class cabins were fitted with additional electric heaters.Titanic 's radiotelegraph equipment then known as wireless telegraphy was leased to the White Star Line by the Marconi International MarineCommunication Company , which also supplied two of its employees, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride , as operators.

The service maintained a hour schedule, primarily sending and receiving passenger telegrams, but also handling navigation messages includingweather reports and ice warnings. The radio room was located on the Boat Deck, in the officers' quarters. A soundproofed "Silent Room", next tothe operating room, housed loud equipment, including the transmitter and a motor-generator used for producing alternating currents. The operators'living quarters were adjacent to the working office. The ship was equipped with a 'state of the art' 5 kilowatt rotary spark-gap transmitter ,operating under the radio callsign MGY, and communication was conducted in Morse code. This transmitter was one of the first Marconiinstallations to use a rotary spark-gap, which gave Titanic a distinctive musical tone that could be readily distinguished from other signals.

The transmitter was one of the most powerful in the world and guaranteed to broadcast over a radius of miles km. An elevated T-antenna thatspanned the length of the ship was used for transmitting and receiving. The normal operating frequency was kHz m wavelength ; however, theequipment could also operate on the "short" wavelength of 1, kHz m wavelength that was employed by smaller vessels with shorter antennas. Thepassenger facilities aboard Titanic aimed to meet the highest standards of luxury. According to Titanic ' s general arrangement plans, the ship couldaccommodate First Class Passengers, in Second Class and 1, in Third Class, for a total passenger capacity of 2, In addition, her capacity for crewmembers exceeded , as most documents of her original configuration have stated that her full carrying capacity for both passengers and crew wasapproximately 3, Her interior design was a departure from that of other passenger liners, which had typically been decorated in the rather heavystyle of a manor house or an English country house.

Titanic was laid out in a much lighter style similar to that of contemporary high-class hotels—the Ritz Hotel was a reference point—with First Classcabins finished in the Empire style. The aim was to convey an impression that the passengers were in a floating hotel rather than a ship; as onepassenger recalled, on entering the ship's interior a passenger would "at once lose the feeling that we are on board ship, and seem instead to beentering the hall of some great house on shore". Among the more novel features available to first-class passengers was a 7 ft 2.

For an extra cost, first-class passengers could enjoy the finest French haute cuisine in the most luxurious of surroundings. At ft 35 m long by 92 ft28 m wide, the Dining Saloon on D Deck, designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll , was the largest room afloat and could seat almost passengers at atime. Titanic 's staircase would have looked nearly identical. No known photos of Titanic 's staircase exist. Third Class commonly referred to asSteerage accommodations aboard Titanic were not as luxurious as First or Second Class, but even so, were better than on many other ships of thetime.

They reflected the improved standards which the White Star Line had adopted for trans-Atlantic immigrant and lower-class travel. On most otherNorth Atlantic passenger ships at the time, Third Class accommodations consisted of little more than open dormitories in the forward end of thevessels, in which hundreds of people were confined, often without adequate food or toilet facilities. The White Star Line had long since broken thatmould. As seen aboard Titanic , all White Star Line passenger ships divided their Third Class accommodations into two sections, always atopposite ends of the vessel from one another. The established arrangement was that single men were quartered in the forward areas, while singlewomen, married couples and families were quartered aft. In addition, while other ships provided only open berth sleeping arrangements, WhiteStar Line vessels provided their Third Class passengers with private, small but comfortable cabins capable of accommodating two, four, six, eightand ten passengers.

Third Class accommodations also included their own dining rooms, as well as public gathering areas including adequate open deck space, whichaboard Titanic comprised the Poop Deck at the stern, the forward and aft well decks, and a large open space on D Deck which could be used asa social hall. This was supplemented by the addition of a smoking room for men and a General Room on C Deck which women could use forreading and writing. Although they were not as glamorous in design as spaces seen in upper-class accommodations, they were still far aboveaverage for the period.

Leisure facilities were provided for all three classes to pass the time. As well as making use of the indoor amenities such as the library, smokingrooms, and gymnasium, it was also customary for passengers to socialise on the open deck, promenading or relaxing in hired deck chairs orwooden benches. A passenger list was published before the sailing to inform the public which members of the great and good were on board, andit was not uncommon for ambitious mothers to use the list to identify rich bachelors to whom they could introduce their marriageable daughtersduring the voyage.

Built of solid English oak with a sweeping curve, the staircase descended through seven decks of the ship, between the Boat Deck to E deck,before terminating in a simplified single flight on F Deck. At the uppermost landing was a large carved wooden panel containing a clock, withfigures of "Honour and Glory Crowning Time" flanking the clock face. It has been suggested that during the real event, the entire Grand Staircasewas ejected upwards through the dome. Although Titanic was primarily a passenger liner, she also carried a substantial amount of cargo. For thestorage of letters, parcels and specie bullion, coins and other valuables , 26, cubic feet m 3 of space in her holds was allocated.

The Sea Post Office on G Deck was manned by five postal clerks; three Americans and two Britons, who worked 13 hours a day, seven days a

week sorting up to 60, items daily. The ship's passengers brought with them a huge amount of baggage; another 19, cubic feet In addition, therewas a considerable quantity of regular cargo, ranging from furniture to foodstuffs, and a Renault Type CE Coupe de Ville motor car. Titanic wasequipped with eight electric cranes, four electric winches and three steam winches to lift cargo and baggage in and out of the holds.

It is estimated that the ship used some tons of coal whilst in Southampton, simply generating steam to operate the cargo winches and provide heatand light. Like Olympic , Titanic carried a total of 20 lifeboats: 14 standard wooden Harland and Wolff lifeboats with a capacity of 65 people eachand four Engelhardt "collapsible" wooden bottom, collapsible canvas sides lifeboats identified as A to D with a capacity of 47 people each. Inaddition, she had two emergency cutters with a capacity of 40 people each. Those on the starboard side were odd-numbered 1—15 from bow tostern, while those on the port side were even-numbered 2—16 from bow to stern. Both cutters were kept swung out, hanging from the davits,ready for immediate use, while collapsible lifeboats C and D were stowed on the boat deck connected to davits immediately inboard of boats 1and 2 respectively.

A and B were stored on the roof of the officers' quarters, on either side of number 1 funnel. There were no davits to lower them and their weightwould make them difficult to launch by hand. Lifeline ropes on the boats' sides enabled them to save additional people from the water if necessary.Titanic had 16 sets of davits, each able to handle four lifeboats as Carlisle had planned. This gave Titanic the ability to carry up to 64 woodenlifeboats [80] which would have been enough for 4, people—considerably more than her actual capacity. However, the White Star Line decidedthat only 16 wooden lifeboats and four collapsibles would be carried, which could accommodate 1, people, only one-third of Titanic 's totalcapacity. At the time, the Board of Trade 's regulations required British vessels over 10, tons to only carry 16 lifeboats with a capacity ofoccupants. Therefore, the White Star Line actually provided more lifeboat accommodation than was legally required.

Had the SS Californian responded to Titanic 's distress calls , the lifeboats may have been adequate to ferry the passengers to safety as planned.The sheer size of Titanic and her sister ships posed a major engineering challenge for Harland and Wolff; no shipbuilder had ever before attemptedto construct vessels this size. Harland and Wolff had to demolish three existing slipways and build two new ones, the largest ever constructed up tothat time, to accommodate both ships. The Arrol Gantry stood feet 69 m high, was feet 82 m wide and feet m long, and weighed more than 6,tons.

It accommodated a number of mobile cranes. A separate floating crane, capable of lifting tons, was brought in from Germany. The construction ofOlympic and Titanic took place virtually in parallel, with Olympic ' s keel laid down first on 16 December and Titanic ' s on 31 March They weredesigned essentially as an enormous floating box girder , with the keel acting as a backbone and the frames of the hull forming the ribs. At the baseof the ships, a double bottom 5 feet 3 inches 1. They terminated at the bridge deck B Deck and were covered with steel plates which formed theouter skin of the ships. The 2, hull plates were single pieces of rolled steel plate , mostly up to 6 feet 1.

Above that point they were laid in the "in and out" fashion, where strake plating was applied in bands the "in strakes" with the gaps covered by the"out strakes", overlapping on the edges. Commercial oxy-fuel and electric arc welding methods, ubiquitous in fabrication today, were still in theirinfancy; like most other iron and steel structures of the era, the hull was held together with over three million iron and steel rivets , which bythemselves weighed over 1, tons. They were fitted using hydraulic machines or were hammered in by hand.

It is believed that, by the standards of the time, the steel plate's quality was good, not faulty, but that it was inferior to what would be used forshipbuilding purposes in later decades, owing to advances in the metallurgy of steelmaking. Among the last items to be fitted on Titanic before theship's launch were her two side anchors and one centre anchor. The anchors themselves were a challenge to make, with the centre anchor beingthe largest ever forged by hand and weighing nearly 16 tons. From there it was shipped by rail to Fleetwood in Lancashire before being loadedaboard a ship and sent to Belfast. The work of constructing the ships was difficult and dangerous. For the 15, men who worked at Harland andWolff at the time, [96] safety precautions were rudimentary at best; a lot of the work was carried out without equipment like hard hats or handguards on machinery. As a result, during Titanic ' s construction, injuries were recorded, 28 of them "severe", such as arms severed by machines orlegs crushed under falling pieces of steel.

Six people died on the ship herself while she was being constructed and fitted out, and another two died in the shipyard workshops and sheds.Titanic was launched at p. Pierpont Morgan, J. Bruce Ismay and , onlookers. Although Titanic was virtually identical to the class's lead shipOlympic , a few changes were made to distinguish both ships. The most noticeable exterior difference was that Titanic and the third vessel in class,Britannic had a steel screen with sliding windows installed along the forward half of the A Deck promenade. This was installed as a last minutechange at the personal request of Bruce Ismay, and was intended to provide additional shelter to First Class passengers. These changes madeTitanic slightly heavier than her sister, and thus she could claim to be the largest ship afloat. The work took longer than expected due to designchanges requested by Ismay and a temporary pause in work occasioned by the need to repair Olympic , which had been in a collision inSeptember Had Titanic been finished earlier, she might well have missed her collision with an iceberg.

Titanic ' s sea trials began at 6 a. No domestic staff appear to have been aboard. Sanderson of IMM. Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie were too ill toattend. Jack Phillips and Harold Bride served as radio operators and performed fine-tuning of the Marconi equipment. Francis Carruthers, asurveyor from the Board of Trade, was also present to see that everything worked and that the ship was fit to carry passengers. The sea trialsconsisted of a number of tests of her handling characteristics, carried out first in Belfast Lough and then in the open waters of the Irish Sea.

Over the course of about 12 hours, Titanic was driven at different speeds, her turning ability was tested and a "crash stop" was performed in whichthe engines were reversed full ahead to full astern, bringing her to a stop in yd m or 3 minutes and 15 seconds. On returning to Belfast at about 7pm, the surveyor signed an "Agreement and Account of Voyages and Crew", valid for 12 months, which declared the ship seaworthy.

An hour later, Titanic departed Belfast to head to Southampton, a voyage of about nautical miles mi; 1, km. After a journey lasting about 28 hours,she arrived about midnight on 4 April and was towed to the port's Berth 44, ready for the arrival of her passengers and the remainder of her crew.Both Olympic and Titanic registered Liverpool as their home port. The offices of the White Star Line, as well as Cunard, were in Liverpool, and

up until the introduction of the Olympic , most British ocean liners for both Cunard and White Star, such as Lusitania and Mauretania , sailed out ofLiverpool followed by a port of call in Queenstown, Ireland. Since the company's founding in , a vast majority of their operations had taken placeout of Liverpool.

However, in White Star Line established another service out of the port of Southampton on England's south coast, which became known as WhiteStar's "Express Service". Southampton had many advantages over Liverpool, the first being its proximity to London. In addition, Southampton,being on the south coast, allowed ships to easily cross the English Channel and make a port of call on the northern coast of France, usually atCherbourg. This allowed British ships to pick up clientele from continental Europe before recrossing the channel and picking up passengers atQueenstown. Out of respect for Liverpool, ships continued to be registered there until the early s. Queen Elizabeth 2 was one of the first shipsregistered in Southampton when introduced into service by Cunard in Titanic 's maiden voyage was intended to be the first of many trans-Atlanticcrossings between Southampton and New York via Cherbourg and Queenstown on westbound runs, returning via Plymouth in England whileeastbound.

Indeed, her entire schedule of voyages through to December still exists. When the Olympic entered service in June , she replaced Teutonic , whichafter completing her last run on the service in late April was transferred to the Dominion Line's Canadian service. The following August, Adriaticwas transferred to White Star Line's main Liverpool-New York service, and in November, Majestic was withdrawn from service impending thearrival of Titanic in the coming months, and was mothballed as a reserve ship. White Star Line's initial plans for Olympic and Titanic on theSouthampton run followed the same routine as their predecessors had done before them. Each would sail once every three weeks fromSouthampton and New York, usually leaving at noon each Wednesday from Southampton and each Saturday from New York, thus enabling theWhite Star Line to offer weekly sailings in each direction.

Special trains were scheduled from London and Paris to convey passengers to Southampton and Cherbourg respectively. Titanic had around crewmembers on board for her maiden voyage. The original Second Officer, David Blair , was dropped altogether. Pitman was the second to lastsurviving officer. Titanic ' s crew were divided into three principal departments: Deck, with 66 crew; Engine, with ; and Victualling, with The lower-paid victualling staff could, however, supplement their wages substantially through tips from passengers.

Titanic ' s passengers numbered approximately 1, people: in First Class, in Second Class, and in Third Class. There were children aboard, thelargest number of whom were in Third Class. Usually, a high prestige vessel like Titanic could expect to be fully booked on its maiden voyage.However, a national coal strike in the UK had caused considerable disruption to shipping schedules in the spring of , causing many crossings to becancelled.

Many would-be passengers chose to postpone their travel plans until the strike was over. The strike had finished a few days before Titanic sailed;however, that was too late to have much of an effect. Titanic was able to sail on the scheduled date only because coal was transferred from othervessels which were tied up at Southampton, such as SS City of New York and RMS Oceanic , as well as coal Olympic had brought back from aprevious voyage to New York, which had been stored at the White Star Dock. Some of the most prominent people of the day booked a passageaboard Titanic , travelling in First Class. Charles M. Hays , Mr. Henry S. Harper , Mr. Walter D. Douglas , Mr. George D. Wick , Mr. Henry B.Harris , Mr. Arthur L. Ryerson , Mr. Allison , Mr. Alfons Simonius-Blumer, James A. Ross, Washington Roebling 's nephew Washington A.

Clark 's nephew Walter M. Pears with wife, John S. Pillsbury 's honeymooning grandson John P. Titanic ' s owner J. Morgan was scheduled totravel on the maiden voyage but cancelled at the last minute. The exact number of people aboard is not known, as not all of those who had bookedtickets made it to the ship; about 50 people cancelled for various reasons, [] and not all of those who boarded stayed aboard for the entirejourney.

Titanic ' s maiden voyage began on Wednesday, 10 April Following the embarkation of the crew, the passengers began arriving at am, when theLondon and South Western Railway 's boat train from London Waterloo station reached Southampton Terminus railway station on the quayside,alongside Titanic ' s berth. Stewards showed them to their cabins, and First Class passengers were personally greeted by Captain Smith.Additional passengers were to be picked up at Cherbourg and Queenstown. The maiden voyage began at noon, as scheduled. An accident wasnarrowly averted only a few minutes later, as Titanic passed the moored liners SS City of New York of the American Line and Oceanic of theWhite Star Line, the latter of which would have been her running mate on the service from Southampton.

Her huge displacement caused both of the smaller ships to be lifted by a bulge of water and then dropped into a trough. New York ' s mooringcables could not take the sudden strain and snapped, swinging her around stern-first towards Titanic. A nearby tugboat, Vulcan , came to therescue by taking New York under tow, and Captain Smith ordered Titanic ' s engines to be put "full astern". The incident delayed Titanic ' sdeparture for about an hour, while the drifting New York was brought under control. After making it safely through the complex tides and channelsof Southampton Water and the Solent , Titanic disembarked the Southampton pilot at the Nab Lightship and headed out into the English Channel.

Both had been designed specifically as tenders for the Olympic -class liners and were launched shortly after Titanic. Four hours after Titanic leftSouthampton, she arrived at Cherbourg and was met by the tenders. Twenty-four passengers left aboard the tenders to be conveyed to shore,having booked only a cross-Channel passage. The process was completed within only 90 minutes and at 8 p. Titanic weighed anchor and left forQueenstown [] with the weather continuing cold and windy. At a. It was a partly cloudy but relatively warm day, with a brisk wind. In addition tothe 24 cross-Channel passengers who had disembarked at Cherbourg, another seven passengers had booked an overnight passage fromSouthampton to Queenstown. Among the seven was Father Francis Browne , a Jesuit trainee who was a keen photographer and took manyphotographs aboard Titanic , including the last known photograph of the ship.

A decidedly unofficial departure was that of a crew member, stoker John Coffey, a Queenstown native who sneaked off the ship by hiding undermail bags being transported to shore. Titanic was planned to arrive at New York Pier 59 [] on the morning of 17 April. From there she travelled 1,nautical miles 1, mi; 3, km along a Great Circle route across the North Atlantic to reach a spot in the ocean known as "the corner" south-east of

Newfoundland, where westbound steamers carried out a change of course. Titanic sailed only a few hours past the corner on a rhumb line leg of 1,nautical miles 1, mi; 1, km to Nantucket Shoals Light when she made her fatal contact with an iceberg.

From 11 April to local apparent noon the next day, Titanic covered nautical miles mi; km ; the following day, nautical miles mi; km ; and by noonon the final day of her voyage, nautical miles mi; 1, km. The weather cleared as she left Ireland under cloudy skies with a headwind. Temperaturesremained fairly mild on Saturday 13 April, but the following day Titanic crossed a cold weather front with strong winds and waves of up to 8 feet2. These died down as the day progressed until, by the evening of Sunday 14 April, it became clear, calm and very cold. The first three days of thevoyage from Queenstown had passed without apparent incident. A fire had begun in one of Titanic 's coal bunkers approximately 10 days prior tothe ship's departure, and continued to burn for several days into its voyage, [] but passengers were unaware of this situation.

Fires occurred frequently on board steamships at the time, due to spontaneous combustion of the coal. Titanic received a series of warnings fromother ships of drifting ice in the area of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland , but Captain Edward Smith chose to ignore them. Close calls with icewere not uncommon, and even head-on collisions had not been disastrous. In SS Kronprinz Wilhelm , a German liner, had rammed an iceberg butstill had been able to complete her voyage, and Captain Smith himself had declared in that he "could not imagine any condition which would causea ship to founder.

Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. At p. Five of the ship's watertight compartments were breached. It soon became clear that the shipwas doomed, as she could not survive more than four compartments being flooded. Titanic began sinking bow-first, with water spilling fromcompartment to compartment as her angle in the water became steeper. Those aboard Titanic were ill-prepared for such an emergency. Inaccordance with accepted practices of the time, as ships were seen as largely unsinkable and lifeboats were intended to transfer passengers tonearby rescue vessels, [] [m] Titanic only had enough lifeboats to carry about half of those on board; if the ship had carried her full complement ofabout 3, passengers and crew, only about a third could have been accommodated in the lifeboats. The officers did not know how many they couldsafely put aboard the lifeboats and launched many of them barely half-full.

Between and a. With the bow underwater, and air trapped in the stern, the stern remained afloat and buoyant for a few minutes longer, rising to anearly vertical angle with hundreds of people still clinging to it, [] before foundering at am. Sudden immersion into freezing water typically causesdeath within minutes, either from cardiac arrest , uncontrollable breathing of water, or cold incapacitation not, as commonly believed, fromhypothermia , [n] and almost all of those in the water died of cardiac arrest or other bodily reactions to freezing water, within 15—30 minutes.Distress signals were sent by wireless, rockets, and lamp, but none of the ships that responded were near enough to reach Titanic before she sank.

Meanwhile, the SS Californian , which was the last to have been in contact before the collision, saw Titanic ' s flares but failed to assist. Aboutpeople survived the disaster and were conveyed by Carpathia to New York, Titanic ' s original destination, while at least 1, people lost their lives.Her journey was slowed by pack ice, fog, thunderstorms and rough seas. The initial reports were confusing, leading the American press to reporterroneously on 15 April that Titanic was being towed to port by the SS Virginian. Later that day, confirmation came through that Titanic had beenlost and that most of her passengers and crew had died. Carpathia docked at p. Some of the wealthier survivors chartered private trains to takethem home, and the Pennsylvania Railroad laid on a special train free of charge to take survivors to Philadelphia.

Titanic ' s surviving crew members were taken to the Red Star Line 's steamer SS Lapland , where they were accommodated in passenger cabins.Carpathia was hurriedly restocked with food and provisions before resuming her journey to Fiume , Austria-Hungary. The ship's arrival in NewYork led to a frenzy of press interest, with newspapers competing to be the first to report the survivors' stories. Some reporters bribed their wayaboard the pilot boat New York , which guided Carpathia into harbour, and one even managed to get onto Carpathia before she docked.

Lloyd's paid the White Star Line the full sum owed to them within 30 days. Many charities were set up to help the victims and their families, manyof whom lost their sole wage earner , or, in the case of many Third Class survivors, everything they owned. In New York City, for example, a jointcommittee of the American Red Cross and Charity Organization Society formed to disburse financial aid to survivors and dependents of those whodied. One such fund was still in operation as late as the s. In the United States and Britain, more than 60 survivors combined to sue the White StarLine for damages connected to loss of life and baggage. Even before the survivors arrived in New York, investigations were being planned todiscover what had happened, and what could be done to prevent a recurrence.

Inquiries were held in both the United States and the United Kingdom, the former more robustly critical of traditions and practices, and scathing ofthe failures involved, and the latter broadly more technical and expert-orientated. Smith also needed to subpoena all surviving British passengersand crew while they were still on American soil, which prevented them from returning to the UK before the American inquiry was completed on 25May.

Smith, however, already had a reputation as a campaigner for safety on US railroads, and wanted to investigate any possible malpractices byrailroad tycoon J. Morgan, Titanic ' s ultimate owner. Being run by the Board of Trade, who had previously approved the ship, it was seen bysome [ Like whom? Each inquiry took testimony from both passengers and crew of Titanic , crew members of Leyland Line's Californian , CaptainArthur Rostron of Carpathia and other experts. The American inquiry concluded that since those involved had followed standard practice, thedisaster was an act of God. Lord Mersey did, however, find fault with the "extremely high speed twenty-two knots which was maintained"following numerous ice warnings, [] noting that without hindsight, "what was a mistake in the case of the Titanic would without doubt be negligencein any similar case in the future". The recommendations included strong suggestions for major changes in maritime regulations to implement newsafety measures, such as ensuring that more lifeboats were provided, that lifeboat drills were properly carried out and that wireless equipment onpassenger ships was manned around the clock.

Its final report recommended that all liners carry the system and that sufficient operators maintain a constant service. One of the most controversialissues examined by the inquiries was the role played by SS Californian , which had been only a few miles from Titanic but had not picked up herdistress calls or responded to her signal rockets. Californian had warned Titanic by radio of the pack ice that was the reason Californian had

stopped for the night but was rebuked by Titanic ' s senior wireless operator, Jack Phillips. Testimony before the British inquiry revealed that atpm, Californian observed the lights of a ship to the south; it was later agreed between Captain Stanley Lord and Third Officer C. Groves who hadrelieved Lord of duty at pm that this was a passenger liner.

A reasonable and prudent course of action would have been to awaken the wireless operator and to instruct him to attempt to contact Titanic bythat method. Had Lord done so, it is possible he could have reached Titanic in time to save additional lives. Captain Lord had gone to thechartroom at p. Lord wanted to know if they were company signals, that is, coloured flares used for identification. Stone said that he did not knowand that the rockets were all white.

Captain Lord instructed the crew to continue to signal the other vessel with the Morse lamp, and went back to sleep. Three more rockets wereobserved at a. At am, Lord was notified that the ship could no longer be seen. Lord asked again if the lights had had any colours in them, and hewas informed that they were all white. Californian eventually responded. At around am, Chief Officer George Stewart awakened wireless operatorCyril Furmstone Evans , informed him that rockets had been seen during the night, and asked that he try to communicate with any ship. He gotnews of Titanic ' s loss, Captain Lord was notified, and the ship set out to render assistance. She arrived well after Carpathia had already pickedup all the survivors. The inquiries found that the ship seen by Californian was in fact Titanic and that it would have been possible for Californian tocome to her rescue; therefore, Captain Lord had acted improperly in failing to do so.

The number of casualties of the sinking is unclear, due to a number of factors. These include confusion over the passenger list, which included somenames of people who cancelled their trip at the last minute, and the fact that several passengers travelled under aliases for various reasons andwere therefore double-counted on the casualty lists. The water temperature was well below normal in the area where Titanic sank.

It also contributed to the rapid death of many passengers during the sinking. Fewer than a third of those aboard Titanic survived the disaster. Somesurvivors died shortly afterwards; injuries and the effects of exposure caused the deaths of several of those brought aboard Carpathia. Similarly,five of six first-class and all second-class children survived, but 52 of the 79 in third-class perished.

The differences by gender were even bigger: nearly all female crew members, first- and second-class passengers were saved. Men from the FirstClass died at a higher rate than women from the Third Class. The last living survivor, Millvina Dean from England, who at only nine weeks old wasthe youngest passenger on board, died aged 97 on 31 May Of the victims that were eventually recovered, were retrieved by the Canadian shipsand five more by passing North Atlantic steamships.

The first ship to reach the site of the sinking, the CS Mackay-Bennett , found so many bodies that the embalming supplies aboard were quicklyexhausted. Health regulations required that only embalmed bodies could be returned to port. As a result, many third-class passengers and crewwere buried at sea. Larnder identified many of those buried at sea as crew members by their clothing, and stated that as a mariner, he himselfwould be contented to be buried at sea. Bodies recovered were preserved for transport to Halifax, the closest city to the sinking with direct railand steamship connections. The Halifax coroner, John Henry Barnstead , developed a detailed system to identify bodies and safeguard personalpossessions.

Relatives from across North America came to identify and claim bodies. A large temporary morgue was set up in the curling rink of the MayflowerCurling Club and undertakers were called in from all across eastern Canada to assist. About two-thirds of the bodies were identified. Unidentifiedvictims were buried with simple numbers based on the order in which their bodies were discovered.

The majority of recovered victims, bodies, were buried in three Halifax cemeteries, the largest being Fairview Lawn Cemetery followed by thenearby Mount Olivet and Baron de Hirsch cemeteries. In mid-May , RMS Oceanic recovered three bodies over miles km from the site of thesinking who were among the original occupants of Collapsible A. When Fifth Officer Harold Lowe and six crewmen returned to the wreck sitesometime after the sinking in a lifeboat to pick up survivors, they rescued a dozen males and one female from Collapsible A, but left the deadbodies of three of its occupants.

Only bodies of Titanic victims were recovered, one in five of the over 1, victims. Some bodies sank with the ship while currents quickly dispersedbodies and wreckage across hundreds of miles making them difficult to recover. By June, one of the last search ships reported that life jacketssupporting bodies were coming apart and releasing bodies to sink. Titanic was long thought to have sunk in one piece and, over the years, manyschemes were put forward for raising the wreck. None came to fruition. The team discovered that Titanic had in fact split apart, probably near orat the surface, before sinking to the seabed. The separated bow and stern sections lie about a third of a mile 0. They are located Both sectionsstruck the sea bed at considerable speed, causing the bow to crumple and the stern to collapse entirely. The bow is by far the more intact sectionand still contains some surprisingly intact interiors. In contrast, the stern is completely wrecked; its decks have pancaked down on top of eachother and much of the hull plating was torn off and lies scattered across the sea floor.

The much greater level of damage to the stern is probably due to structural damage incurred during the sinking. Thus weakened, the remainder ofthe stern was flattened by the impact with the sea bed. The two sections are surrounded by a debris field measuring approximately 5 by 3 miles 8.Most of the bodies and clothes were consumed by sea creatures and bacteria, leaving pairs of shoes and boots—which have proved to be inedible—as the only sign that bodies once lay there. Since its initial discovery, the wreck of Titanic has been revisited on numerous occasions byexplorers, scientists, filmmakers, tourists and salvagers, who have recovered thousands of items from the debris field for conservation and publicdisplay.

The ship's condition has deteriorated significantly over the years, particularly from accidental damage by submersibles but mostly because of anaccelerating rate of growth of iron-eating bacteria on the hull. On 16 April , the day after the th anniversary of the sinking, photos [] were releasedshowing possible human remains resting on the ocean floor. The photos, taken by Robert Ballard during an expedition led by NOAA in , show aboot and a coat close to Titanic 's stern which experts called "compelling evidence" that it is the spot where somebody came to rest, and that

human remains could be buried in the sediment beneath them. This means that all states party to the convention will prohibit the pillaging,commercial exploitation, sale and dispersion of the wreck and its artefacts.

Because of the location of the wreck in international waters and the lack of any exclusive jurisdiction over the wreckage area, the conventionprovides a state co-operation system, by which states inform each other of any potential activity concerning ancient shipwreck sites, like the Titanic, and co-operate to prevent unscientific or unethical interventions. Submersible dives in have found further deterioration of the wreck, including lossof the captain's bathtub.

EYOS Expeditions executed the sub dives. It reported that the strong currents pushed the sub into the wreck leaving a "red rust stain on the side ofthe sub. After the disaster, recommendations were made by both the British and American Boards of Inquiry stating that ships should carry enoughlifeboats for all aboard, mandated lifeboat drills would be implemented, lifeboat inspections would be conducted, etc. Many of theserecommendations were incorporated into the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea passed in Further, the United Statesgovernment passed the Radio Act of This Act, along with the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, stated that radiocommunications on passenger ships would be operated 24 hours a day, along with a secondary power supply, so as not to miss distress calls.Also, the Radio Act of required ships to maintain contact with vessels in their vicinity as well as coastal onshore radio stations. Once the Radio Actof was passed, it was agreed that rockets at sea would be interpreted as distress signals only, thus removing any possible misinterpretation fromother ships.

Finally, the disaster led to the formation and international funding of the International Ice Patrol , an agency of the United States Coast Guard thatto the present day monitors and reports on the location of North Atlantic Ocean icebergs that could pose a threat to transatlantic sea traffic. CoastGuard aircraft conduct the primary reconnaissance. In addition, information is collected from ships operating in or passing through the ice area.Except for the years of the two World Wars, the International Ice Patrol has worked each season since During the period, there has not been asingle reported loss of life or property due to collision with an iceberg in the patrol area.

A Marconi wireless was installed to enable her to communicate with stations on the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland. Titanic has gone downin history as the ship that was called unsinkable. She is commemorated by monuments for the dead and by museums exhibiting artefacts from thewreck. Just after the sinking, memorial postcards sold in huge numbers [] together with memorabilia ranging from tin candy boxes to plates,whiskey jiggers, [] and even black mourning teddy bears. Several survivors wrote books about their experiences, [] but it was not until that the firsthistorically accurate book — A Night to Remember — was published.

The first film about the disaster, Saved from the Titanic , was released only 29 days after the ship sank and had an actual survivor as its star—thesilent film actress Dorothy Gibson. The Titanic disaster was commemorated through a variety of memorials and monuments to the victims, erectedin several English-speaking countries and in particular in cities that had suffered notable losses. RMS Titanic Inc.

It also runs an exhibition which travels around the world. They include pieces of woodwork such as panelling from the ship's First Class Loungeand an original deckchair, [] as well as objects removed from the victims. In a frequently commented-on literary coincidence, Morgan Robertsonauthored a novel called Futility in about a fictional British passenger liner with the plot bearing a number of similarities to the Titanic disaster. In thenovel, the ship is the SS Titan , a four-stacked liner, the largest in the world and considered unsinkable. And like the Titanic , she sinks after hittingan iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats.

Only recently has the significance of Titanic most notably been given by Northern Ireland where it was built by Harland and Wolff in the capitalcity, Belfast. While the rest of the world embraced the glory and tragedy of Titanic , in its birth city, Titanic remained a taboo subject throughoutthe 20th century. The sinking brought tremendous grief and was a blow to the city's pride. Its shipyard was also a place many Catholics regardedas hostile. While the fate of Titanic remained a well-known story within local households throughout the 20th century, commercial investment inprojects recalling RMS Titanic 's legacy was modest because of these issues.

In on the ship's centenary, the Titanic Belfast visitor attraction was opened on the site of the shipyard where Titanic was built. Despite over 1, shipsbeing built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast Harbour, Queen's Island became renamed after its most famous ship, Titanic Quarter in Once asensitive story, Titanic is now considered one of Northern Ireland's most iconic and uniting symbols. In late August , several groups were vying forthe right to purchase the 5, Titanic relics that were an asset of the bankrupt Premier Exhibitions. The group intended to keep all of the itemstogether as a single exhibit. Oceanographer Robert Ballard said he favored this bid since it would ensure that the memorabilia would bepermanently displayed in Belfast where Titanic was built and in Greenwich.

There have been several proposals and studies for a project to build a replica ship based on the Titanic. The vessel will house many features of theoriginal, such as a ballroom, dining hall, theatre, first-class cabins, economy cabins and swimming pool. It will be permanently docked at the resortand feature an audiovisual simulation of the sinking, which has caused some criticism. The interior decoration of the dining salon and the grandstaircase were in identical style and created by the same craftsmen.

Large parts of the interior of the Olympic were later sold and are now in the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick , which gives an impression of how theinterior of the Titanic looked. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. British transatlantic passenger liner, launched and foundered in For the ship'ssinking, see Sinking of the Titanic. For the film by James Cameron, see Titanic film. For other uses, see Titanic disambiguation. Titanic departingSouthampton on 10 April Play media. Marconi Company receiving equipment for a 5 kilowatt ocean liner station in the picture, the wireless radioroom of Titanic 's sister ship, the Olympic. The only known picture of Titanic 's wireless radio room, taken by the catholic priest Francis Browne.

Harold Bride is seated at the desk. Further information: Grand Staircase of the Titanic , First-class facilities of the Titanic , and Second- and third-class facilities on the Titanic. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliablesources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

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Whether you're a history buff or simply seeking help for a school project, this is the ultimate tribute to Titanic. Dinosaurs a children's Encyclopedia.Amazing Giant Dinosaurs. Invention Eyewitness. The differences by gender were even bigger: nearly all female crew members, first- and second-class passengers were saved. Men from the First Class died at a higher rate than women from the Third Class. The last living survivor, MillvinaDean from England, who at only nine weeks old was the youngest passenger on board, died aged 97 on 31 May Of the victims that wereeventually recovered, were retrieved by the Canadian ships and five more by passing North Atlantic steamships.

The first ship to reach the site of the sinking, the CS Mackay-Bennett , found so many bodies that the embalming supplies aboard were quicklyexhausted. Health regulations required that only embalmed bodies could be returned to port. As a result, many third-class passengers and crewwere buried at sea. Larnder identified many of those buried at sea as crew members by their clothing, and stated that as a mariner, he himselfwould be contented to be buried at sea.

Bodies recovered were preserved for transport to Halifax, the closest city to the sinking with direct rail and steamship connections. The Halifaxcoroner, John Henry Barnstead , developed a detailed system to identify bodies and safeguard personal possessions. Relatives from across NorthAmerica came to identify and claim bodies. A large temporary morgue was set up in the curling rink of the Mayflower Curling Club andundertakers were called in from all across eastern Canada to assist. About two-thirds of the bodies were identified. Unidentified victims wereburied with simple numbers based on the order in which their bodies were discovered. The majority of recovered victims, bodies, were buried inthree Halifax cemeteries, the largest being Fairview Lawn Cemetery followed by the nearby Mount Olivet and Baron de Hirsch cemeteries.

In mid-May , RMS Oceanic recovered three bodies over miles km from the site of the sinking who were among the original occupants ofCollapsible A. When Fifth Officer Harold Lowe and six crewmen returned to the wreck site sometime after the sinking in a lifeboat to pick upsurvivors, they rescued a dozen males and one female from Collapsible A, but left the dead bodies of three of its occupants. Only bodies of Titanicvictims were recovered, one in five of the over 1, victims. Some bodies sank with the ship while currents quickly dispersed bodies and wreckageacross hundreds of miles making them difficult to recover. By June, one of the last search ships reported that life jackets supporting bodies werecoming apart and releasing bodies to sink.

Titanic was long thought to have sunk in one piece and, over the years, many schemes were put forward for raising the wreck. None came tofruition. The team discovered that Titanic had in fact split apart, probably near or at the surface, before sinking to the seabed. The separated bowand stern sections lie about a third of a mile 0. They are located Both sections struck the sea bed at considerable speed, causing the bow tocrumple and the stern to collapse entirely.

The bow is by far the more intact section and still contains some surprisingly intact interiors. In contrast, the stern is completely wrecked; its deckshave pancaked down on top of each other and much of the hull plating was torn off and lies scattered across the sea floor. The much greater levelof damage to the stern is probably due to structural damage incurred during the sinking. Thus weakened, the remainder of the stern was flattenedby the impact with the sea bed. The two sections are surrounded by a debris field measuring approximately 5 by 3 miles 8. Most of the bodies andclothes were consumed by sea creatures and bacteria, leaving pairs of shoes and boots—which have proved to be inedible—as the only sign thatbodies once lay there. Since its initial discovery, the wreck of Titanic has been revisited on numerous occasions by explorers, scientists,filmmakers, tourists and salvagers, who have recovered thousands of items from the debris field for conservation and public display.

The ship's condition has deteriorated significantly over the years, particularly from accidental damage by submersibles but mostly because of anaccelerating rate of growth of iron-eating bacteria on the hull. On 16 April , the day after the th anniversary of the sinking, photos [] were releasedshowing possible human remains resting on the ocean floor. The photos, taken by Robert Ballard during an expedition led by NOAA in , show aboot and a coat close to Titanic 's stern which experts called "compelling evidence" that it is the spot where somebody came to rest, and thathuman remains could be buried in the sediment beneath them. This means that all states party to the convention will prohibit the pillaging,commercial exploitation, sale and dispersion of the wreck and its artefacts. Because of the location of the wreck in international waters and thelack of any exclusive jurisdiction over the wreckage area, the convention provides a state co-operation system, by which states inform each otherof any potential activity concerning ancient shipwreck sites, like the Titanic , and co-operate to prevent unscientific or unethical interventions.

Submersible dives in have found further deterioration of the wreck, including loss of the captain's bathtub. EYOS Expeditions executed the subdives. It reported that the strong currents pushed the sub into the wreck leaving a "red rust stain on the side of the sub. After the disaster,recommendations were made by both the British and American Boards of Inquiry stating that ships should carry enough lifeboats for all aboard,mandated lifeboat drills would be implemented, lifeboat inspections would be conducted, etc.

Many of these recommendations were incorporated into the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea passed in Further, the UnitedStates government passed the Radio Act of This Act, along with the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, stated that radiocommunications on passenger ships would be operated 24 hours a day, along with a secondary power supply, so as not to miss distress calls.Also, the Radio Act of required ships to maintain contact with vessels in their vicinity as well as coastal onshore radio stations.

Once the Radio Act of was passed, it was agreed that rockets at sea would be interpreted as distress signals only, thus removing any possiblemisinterpretation from other ships. Finally, the disaster led to the formation and international funding of the International Ice Patrol , an agency ofthe United States Coast Guard that to the present day monitors and reports on the location of North Atlantic Ocean icebergs that could pose athreat to transatlantic sea traffic. Coast Guard aircraft conduct the primary reconnaissance. In addition, information is collected from shipsoperating in or passing through the ice area. Except for the years of the two World Wars, the International Ice Patrol has worked each seasonsince During the period, there has not been a single reported loss of life or property due to collision with an iceberg in the patrol area. A Marconiwireless was installed to enable her to communicate with stations on the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland.

Titanic has gone down in history as the ship that was called unsinkable. She is commemorated by monuments for the dead and by museumsexhibiting artefacts from the wreck. Just after the sinking, memorial postcards sold in huge numbers [] together with memorabilia ranging from tincandy boxes to plates, whiskey jiggers, [] and even black mourning teddy bears. Several survivors wrote books about their experiences, [] but itwas not until that the first historically accurate book — A Night to Remember — was published. The first film about the disaster, Saved from theTitanic , was released only 29 days after the ship sank and had an actual survivor as its star—the silent film actress Dorothy Gibson.

The Titanic disaster was commemorated through a variety of memorials and monuments to the victims, erected in several English-speakingcountries and in particular in cities that had suffered notable losses. RMS Titanic Inc. It also runs an exhibition which travels around the world.They include pieces of woodwork such as panelling from the ship's First Class Lounge and an original deckchair, [] as well as objects removedfrom the victims. In a frequently commented-on literary coincidence, Morgan Robertson authored a novel called Futility in about a fictional Britishpassenger liner with the plot bearing a number of similarities to the Titanic disaster.

In the novel, the ship is the SS Titan , a four-stacked liner, the largest in the world and considered unsinkable. And like the Titanic , she sinks afterhitting an iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats. Only recently has the significance of Titanic most notably been given by Northern Irelandwhere it was built by Harland and Wolff in the capital city, Belfast. While the rest of the world embraced the glory and tragedy of Titanic , in itsbirth city, Titanic remained a taboo subject throughout the 20th century. The sinking brought tremendous grief and was a blow to the city's pride.

Its shipyard was also a place many Catholics regarded as hostile. While the fate of Titanic remained a well-known story within local householdsthroughout the 20th century, commercial investment in projects recalling RMS Titanic 's legacy was modest because of these issues. In on theship's centenary, the Titanic Belfast visitor attraction was opened on the site of the shipyard where Titanic was built. Despite over 1, ships beingbuilt by Harland and Wolff in Belfast Harbour, Queen's Island became renamed after its most famous ship, Titanic Quarter in Once a sensitivestory, Titanic is now considered one of Northern Ireland's most iconic and uniting symbols. In late August , several groups were vying for the rightto purchase the 5, Titanic relics that were an asset of the bankrupt Premier Exhibitions. The group intended to keep all of the items together as asingle exhibit.

Oceanographer Robert Ballard said he favored this bid since it would ensure that the memorabilia would be permanently displayed in Belfastwhere Titanic was built and in Greenwich. There have been several proposals and studies for a project to build a replica ship based on the Titanic.The vessel will house many features of the original, such as a ballroom, dining hall, theatre, first-class cabins, economy cabins and swimming pool.It will be permanently docked at the resort and feature an audiovisual simulation of the sinking, which has caused some criticism. The interiordecoration of the dining salon and the grand staircase were in identical style and created by the same craftsmen.

Large parts of the interior of the Olympic were later sold and are now in the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick , which gives an impression of how theinterior of the Titanic looked. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. British transatlantic passenger liner, launched and foundered in For the ship'ssinking, see Sinking of the Titanic. For the film by James Cameron, see Titanic film. For other uses, see Titanic disambiguation. Titanic departingSouthampton on 10 April Play media.

Marconi Company receiving equipment for a 5 kilowatt ocean liner station in the picture, the wireless radio room of Titanic 's sister ship, theOlympic. The only known picture of Titanic 's wireless radio room, taken by the catholic priest Francis Browne. Harold Bride is seated at thedesk. Further information: Grand Staircase of the Titanic , First-class facilities of the Titanic , and Second- and third-class facilities on the Titanic.This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced materialmay be challenged and removed. April Learn how and when to remove this template message. The gymnasium on the Boat Deck, which wasequipped with the latest exercise machines. Main article: Lifeboats of the Titanic. See also: Animals aboard the Titanic. Main article: Sinking of theTitanic. The sinking, based on Jack Thayer 's description. Sketched by L. Skidmore on board Carpathia.

The iceberg thought to have been hit by Titanic , photographed on the morning of 15 April Note the dark spot just along the berg's waterline,which was described by onlookers as a smear of red paint. The New York Times had first gone to press Monday, 15 April with knowledge of theiceberg collision, but before knowledge of the actual sinking. London newsboy Ned Parfett with news of the disaster, as reported on Tuesday, 16April.

Arrival of Titanic's survivors at New York artist concept [o]. Titanic had been scheduled for a 20 April departure from America, documented in anadvertisement in The New York Times that apparently did not have time to be pulled, overnight, before this printing in the 15 April issue. Diagramsof RMS Titanic. Diagram of RMS Titanic showing the arrangement of the bulkheads in red. Compartments in the engineering area at the bottom ofthe ship are noted in blue. Names of decks are listed to the right starting at top on Boat deck, going from A through F and ending on Lower deckat the waterline. Areas of damage made by the iceberg are shown in green. The scale's smallest unit is 10 feet 3. A cutaway diagram of Titanic ' smidship section. S: Sun deck. A: Upper promenade deck. B: Promenade deck, glass-enclosed. C: Saloon deck. E: Main deck. F: Middle deck.G: Lower deck: cargo, coal bunkers, boilers, engines. Comparison of Titanic in size to modern means of transport and a person.

Timeline of RMS Titanic. Leaves Southampton dock, narrowly escaping collision with American liner New York. Transport portal Oceans portalUnited Kingdom portal. Sir Alfred Chalmers, nautical adviser to the Board of Trade from to , had considered the matter of adjusting the scale"from time to time", but because he not only assumed that experienced sailors would need to be carried "uselessly" aboard ship only to lower andman the extra lifeboats, but also anticipated the difficulty in getting away a greater number than 16 boats in any emergency, he "did not consider itnecessary to increase [the scale]".

Even though that ship was designed to sink others by ramming them, it suffered greater damage than Olympic , thereby strengthening the image ofthe class being unsinkable. Even though she did not have enough lifeboats for all passengers, they were all saved because the ship was able to stayafloat long enough for them to be ferried to ships coming to assist. The victims would have died from bodily reactions to freezing water rather thanhypothermia loss of core temperature. Night and day that crowd of pale, anxious faces had been waiting patiently for the news that did not come.

Nearly every one in the crowd had lost a relative. The waiting crowds thinned, and silent men and women sought their homes. In the humblerhomes of Southampton there is scarcely a family who has not lost a relative or friend. Children returning from school appreciated something oftragedy, and woeful little faces were turned to the darkened, fatherless homes. Titanic Museum Belfast. Archived from the original on 6 JanuaryRetrieved 22 October Newcastle University Library. Retrieved 14 November London: The final board of inquiry.

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No domestic staff appear to have been aboard. Sanderson of IMM. Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie were too ill to attend. Jack Phillips and HaroldBride served as radio operators and performed fine-tuning of the Marconi equipment. Francis Carruthers, a surveyor from the Board of Trade,was also present to see that everything worked and that the ship was fit to carry passengers. The sea trials consisted of a number of tests of herhandling characteristics, carried out first in Belfast Lough and then in the open waters of the Irish Sea. Over the course of about 12 hours, Titanicwas driven at different speeds, her turning ability was tested and a "crash stop" was performed in which the engines were reversed full ahead to fullastern, bringing her to a stop in yd m or 3 minutes and 15 seconds.

On returning to Belfast at about 7 pm, the surveyor signed an "Agreement and Account of Voyages and Crew", valid for 12 months, whichdeclared the ship seaworthy. An hour later, Titanic departed Belfast to head to Southampton, a voyage of about nautical miles mi; 1, km. After ajourney lasting about 28 hours, she arrived about midnight on 4 April and was towed to the port's Berth 44, ready for the arrival of her passengersand the remainder of her crew. Both Olympic and Titanic registered Liverpool as their home port. The offices of the White Star Line, as well asCunard, were in Liverpool, and up until the introduction of the Olympic , most British ocean liners for both Cunard and White Star, such asLusitania and Mauretania , sailed out of Liverpool followed by a port of call in Queenstown, Ireland.

Since the company's founding in , a vast majority of their operations had taken place out of Liverpool. However, in White Star Line establishedanother service out of the port of Southampton on England's south coast, which became known as White Star's "Express Service". Southamptonhad many advantages over Liverpool, the first being its proximity to London. In addition, Southampton, being on the south coast, allowed ships toeasily cross the English Channel and make a port of call on the northern coast of France, usually at Cherbourg. This allowed British ships to pick

up clientele from continental Europe before recrossing the channel and picking up passengers at Queenstown. Out of respect for Liverpool, shipscontinued to be registered there until the early s.

Queen Elizabeth 2 was one of the first ships registered in Southampton when introduced into service by Cunard in Titanic 's maiden voyage wasintended to be the first of many trans-Atlantic crossings between Southampton and New York via Cherbourg and Queenstown on westboundruns, returning via Plymouth in England while eastbound. Indeed, her entire schedule of voyages through to December still exists.

When the Olympic entered service in June , she replaced Teutonic , which after completing her last run on the service in late April was transferredto the Dominion Line's Canadian service. The following August, Adriatic was transferred to White Star Line's main Liverpool-New York service,and in November, Majestic was withdrawn from service impending the arrival of Titanic in the coming months, and was mothballed as a reserveship.

White Star Line's initial plans for Olympic and Titanic on the Southampton run followed the same routine as their predecessors had done beforethem. Each would sail once every three weeks from Southampton and New York, usually leaving at noon each Wednesday from Southamptonand each Saturday from New York, thus enabling the White Star Line to offer weekly sailings in each direction. Special trains were scheduledfrom London and Paris to convey passengers to Southampton and Cherbourg respectively. Titanic had around crew members on board for hermaiden voyage. The original Second Officer, David Blair , was dropped altogether.

Pitman was the second to last surviving officer. Titanic ' s crew were divided into three principal departments: Deck, with 66 crew; Engine, with ;and Victualling, with The lower-paid victualling staff could, however, supplement their wages substantially through tips from passengers. Titanic ' spassengers numbered approximately 1, people: in First Class, in Second Class, and in Third Class. There were children aboard, the largest numberof whom were in Third Class. Usually, a high prestige vessel like Titanic could expect to be fully booked on its maiden voyage. However, anational coal strike in the UK had caused considerable disruption to shipping schedules in the spring of , causing many crossings to be cancelled.Many would-be passengers chose to postpone their travel plans until the strike was over. The strike had finished a few days before Titanic sailed;however, that was too late to have much of an effect. Titanic was able to sail on the scheduled date only because coal was transferred from othervessels which were tied up at Southampton, such as SS City of New York and RMS Oceanic , as well as coal Olympic had brought back from aprevious voyage to New York, which had been stored at the White Star Dock.

Some of the most prominent people of the day booked a passage aboard Titanic , travelling in First Class. Charles M. Hays , Mr. Henry S.Harper , Mr. Walter D. Douglas , Mr. George D. Wick , Mr. Henry B. Harris , Mr. Arthur L. Ryerson , Mr. Allison , Mr. Alfons Simonius-Blumer, James A. Ross, Washington Roebling 's nephew Washington A. Clark 's nephew Walter M. Pears with wife, John S. Pillsbury 'shoneymooning grandson John P. Titanic ' s owner J. Morgan was scheduled to travel on the maiden voyage but cancelled at the last minute.

The exact number of people aboard is not known, as not all of those who had booked tickets made it to the ship; about 50 people cancelled forvarious reasons, [] and not all of those who boarded stayed aboard for the entire journey. Titanic ' s maiden voyage began on Wednesday, 10April Following the embarkation of the crew, the passengers began arriving at am, when the London and South Western Railway 's boat train fromLondon Waterloo station reached Southampton Terminus railway station on the quayside, alongside Titanic ' s berth. Stewards showed them totheir cabins, and First Class passengers were personally greeted by Captain Smith. Additional passengers were to be picked up at Cherbourg andQueenstown.

The maiden voyage began at noon, as scheduled. An accident was narrowly averted only a few minutes later, as Titanic passed the moored linersSS City of New York of the American Line and Oceanic of the White Star Line, the latter of which would have been her running mate on theservice from Southampton. Her huge displacement caused both of the smaller ships to be lifted by a bulge of water and then dropped into a trough.New York ' s mooring cables could not take the sudden strain and snapped, swinging her around stern-first towards Titanic. A nearby tugboat,Vulcan , came to the rescue by taking New York under tow, and Captain Smith ordered Titanic ' s engines to be put "full astern".

The incident delayed Titanic ' s departure for about an hour, while the drifting New York was brought under control. After making it safely throughthe complex tides and channels of Southampton Water and the Solent , Titanic disembarked the Southampton pilot at the Nab Lightship andheaded out into the English Channel. Both had been designed specifically as tenders for the Olympic -class liners and were launched shortly afterTitanic.

Four hours after Titanic left Southampton, she arrived at Cherbourg and was met by the tenders. Twenty-four passengers left aboard the tendersto be conveyed to shore, having booked only a cross-Channel passage. The process was completed within only 90 minutes and at 8 p. Titanicweighed anchor and left for Queenstown [] with the weather continuing cold and windy. At a. It was a partly cloudy but relatively warm day, witha brisk wind. In addition to the 24 cross-Channel passengers who had disembarked at Cherbourg, another seven passengers had booked anovernight passage from Southampton to Queenstown.

Among the seven was Father Francis Browne , a Jesuit trainee who was a keen photographer and took many photographs aboard Titanic ,including the last known photograph of the ship. A decidedly unofficial departure was that of a crew member, stoker John Coffey, a Queenstownnative who sneaked off the ship by hiding under mail bags being transported to shore. Titanic was planned to arrive at New York Pier 59 [] on themorning of 17 April. From there she travelled 1, nautical miles 1, mi; 3, km along a Great Circle route across the North Atlantic to reach a spot inthe ocean known as "the corner" south-east of Newfoundland, where westbound steamers carried out a change of course. Titanic sailed only a fewhours past the corner on a rhumb line leg of 1, nautical miles 1, mi; 1, km to Nantucket Shoals Light when she made her fatal contact with aniceberg. From 11 April to local apparent noon the next day, Titanic covered nautical miles mi; km ; the following day, nautical miles mi; km ; andby noon on the final day of her voyage, nautical miles mi; 1, km.

The weather cleared as she left Ireland under cloudy skies with a headwind. Temperatures remained fairly mild on Saturday 13 April, but the

following day Titanic crossed a cold weather front with strong winds and waves of up to 8 feet 2. These died down as the day progressed until, bythe evening of Sunday 14 April, it became clear, calm and very cold. The first three days of the voyage from Queenstown had passed withoutapparent incident.

A fire had begun in one of Titanic 's coal bunkers approximately 10 days prior to the ship's departure, and continued to burn for several days intoits voyage, [] but passengers were unaware of this situation. Fires occurred frequently on board steamships at the time, due to spontaneouscombustion of the coal. Titanic received a series of warnings from other ships of drifting ice in the area of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland , butCaptain Edward Smith chose to ignore them. Close calls with ice were not uncommon, and even head-on collisions had not been disastrous. In SSKronprinz Wilhelm , a German liner, had rammed an iceberg but still had been able to complete her voyage, and Captain Smith himself haddeclared in that he "could not imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.

At p. Five of the ship's watertight compartments were breached. It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as she could not survive morethan four compartments being flooded. Titanic began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment as her angle in thewater became steeper. Those aboard Titanic were ill-prepared for such an emergency. In accordance with accepted practices of the time, as shipswere seen as largely unsinkable and lifeboats were intended to transfer passengers to nearby rescue vessels, [] [m] Titanic only had enoughlifeboats to carry about half of those on board; if the ship had carried her full complement of about 3, passengers and crew, only about a thirdcould have been accommodated in the lifeboats. The officers did not know how many they could safely put aboard the lifeboats and launchedmany of them barely half-full. Between and a. With the bow underwater, and air trapped in the stern, the stern remained afloat and buoyant for afew minutes longer, rising to a nearly vertical angle with hundreds of people still clinging to it, [] before foundering at am.

Sudden immersion into freezing water typically causes death within minutes, either from cardiac arrest , uncontrollable breathing of water, or coldincapacitation not, as commonly believed, from hypothermia , [n] and almost all of those in the water died of cardiac arrest or other bodilyreactions to freezing water, within 15—30 minutes. Distress signals were sent by wireless, rockets, and lamp, but none of the ships that respondedwere near enough to reach Titanic before she sank. Meanwhile, the SS Californian , which was the last to have been in contact before the collision,saw Titanic ' s flares but failed to assist. About people survived the disaster and were conveyed by Carpathia to New York, Titanic ' s originaldestination, while at least 1, people lost their lives.

Her journey was slowed by pack ice, fog, thunderstorms and rough seas. The initial reports were confusing, leading the American press to reporterroneously on 15 April that Titanic was being towed to port by the SS Virginian. Later that day, confirmation came through that Titanic had beenlost and that most of her passengers and crew had died. Carpathia docked at p. Some of the wealthier survivors chartered private trains to takethem home, and the Pennsylvania Railroad laid on a special train free of charge to take survivors to Philadelphia. Titanic ' s surviving crewmembers were taken to the Red Star Line 's steamer SS Lapland , where they were accommodated in passenger cabins. Carpathia was hurriedlyrestocked with food and provisions before resuming her journey to Fiume , Austria-Hungary. The ship's arrival in New York led to a frenzy ofpress interest, with newspapers competing to be the first to report the survivors' stories. Some reporters bribed their way aboard the pilot boatNew York , which guided Carpathia into harbour, and one even managed to get onto Carpathia before she docked.

Lloyd's paid the White Star Line the full sum owed to them within 30 days. Many charities were set up to help the victims and their families, manyof whom lost their sole wage earner , or, in the case of many Third Class survivors, everything they owned. In New York City, for example, a jointcommittee of the American Red Cross and Charity Organization Society formed to disburse financial aid to survivors and dependents of those whodied. One such fund was still in operation as late as the s. In the United States and Britain, more than 60 survivors combined to sue the White StarLine for damages connected to loss of life and baggage. Even before the survivors arrived in New York, investigations were being planned todiscover what had happened, and what could be done to prevent a recurrence.

Inquiries were held in both the United States and the United Kingdom, the former more robustly critical of traditions and practices, and scathing ofthe failures involved, and the latter broadly more technical and expert-orientated. Smith also needed to subpoena all surviving British passengersand crew while they were still on American soil, which prevented them from returning to the UK before the American inquiry was completed on 25May. Smith, however, already had a reputation as a campaigner for safety on US railroads, and wanted to investigate any possible malpractices byrailroad tycoon J. Morgan, Titanic ' s ultimate owner. Being run by the Board of Trade, who had previously approved the ship, it was seen bysome [ Like whom? Each inquiry took testimony from both passengers and crew of Titanic , crew members of Leyland Line's Californian , CaptainArthur Rostron of Carpathia and other experts.

The American inquiry concluded that since those involved had followed standard practice, the disaster was an act of God. Lord Mersey did,however, find fault with the "extremely high speed twenty-two knots which was maintained" following numerous ice warnings, [] noting that withouthindsight, "what was a mistake in the case of the Titanic would without doubt be negligence in any similar case in the future".

The recommendations included strong suggestions for major changes in maritime regulations to implement new safety measures, such as ensuringthat more lifeboats were provided, that lifeboat drills were properly carried out and that wireless equipment on passenger ships was mannedaround the clock. Its final report recommended that all liners carry the system and that sufficient operators maintain a constant service. One of themost controversial issues examined by the inquiries was the role played by SS Californian , which had been only a few miles from Titanic but hadnot picked up her distress calls or responded to her signal rockets.

Californian had warned Titanic by radio of the pack ice that was the reason Californian had stopped for the night but was rebuked by Titanic ' ssenior wireless operator, Jack Phillips. Testimony before the British inquiry revealed that at pm, Californian observed the lights of a ship to thesouth; it was later agreed between Captain Stanley Lord and Third Officer C. Groves who had relieved Lord of duty at pm that this was apassenger liner. A reasonable and prudent course of action would have been to awaken the wireless operator and to instruct him to attempt tocontact Titanic by that method. Had Lord done so, it is possible he could have reached Titanic in time to save additional lives.

Captain Lord had gone to the chartroom at p. Lord wanted to know if they were company signals, that is, coloured flares used for identification.Stone said that he did not know and that the rockets were all white. Captain Lord instructed the crew to continue to signal the other vessel with theMorse lamp, and went back to sleep. Three more rockets were observed at a. At am, Lord was notified that the ship could no longer be seen.Lord asked again if the lights had had any colours in them, and he was informed that they were all white.

Californian eventually responded. At around am, Chief Officer George Stewart awakened wireless operator Cyril Furmstone Evans , informed himthat rockets had been seen during the night, and asked that he try to communicate with any ship. He got news of Titanic ' s loss, Captain Lord wasnotified, and the ship set out to render assistance. She arrived well after Carpathia had already picked up all the survivors. The inquiries found thatthe ship seen by Californian was in fact Titanic and that it would have been possible for Californian to come to her rescue; therefore, Captain Lordhad acted improperly in failing to do so.

The number of casualties of the sinking is unclear, due to a number of factors. These include confusion over the passenger list, which included somenames of people who cancelled their trip at the last minute, and the fact that several passengers travelled under aliases for various reasons andwere therefore double-counted on the casualty lists. The water temperature was well below normal in the area where Titanic sank. It alsocontributed to the rapid death of many passengers during the sinking. Fewer than a third of those aboard Titanic survived the disaster. Somesurvivors died shortly afterwards; injuries and the effects of exposure caused the deaths of several of those brought aboard Carpathia. Similarly,five of six first-class and all second-class children survived, but 52 of the 79 in third-class perished.

The differences by gender were even bigger: nearly all female crew members, first- and second-class passengers were saved. Men from the FirstClass died at a higher rate than women from the Third Class. The last living survivor, Millvina Dean from England, who at only nine weeks old wasthe youngest passenger on board, died aged 97 on 31 May Of the victims that were eventually recovered, were retrieved by the Canadian shipsand five more by passing North Atlantic steamships.

The first ship to reach the site of the sinking, the CS Mackay-Bennett , found so many bodies that the embalming supplies aboard were quicklyexhausted. Health regulations required that only embalmed bodies could be returned to port. As a result, many third-class passengers and crewwere buried at sea. Larnder identified many of those buried at sea as crew members by their clothing, and stated that as a mariner, he himselfwould be contented to be buried at sea. Bodies recovered were preserved for transport to Halifax, the closest city to the sinking with direct railand steamship connections. The Halifax coroner, John Henry Barnstead , developed a detailed system to identify bodies and safeguard personalpossessions.

Relatives from across North America came to identify and claim bodies. A large temporary morgue was set up in the curling rink of the MayflowerCurling Club and undertakers were called in from all across eastern Canada to assist. About two-thirds of the bodies were identified. Unidentifiedvictims were buried with simple numbers based on the order in which their bodies were discovered. The majority of recovered victims, bodies,were buried in three Halifax cemeteries, the largest being Fairview Lawn Cemetery followed by the nearby Mount Olivet and Baron de Hirschcemeteries.

In mid-May , RMS Oceanic recovered three bodies over miles km from the site of the sinking who were among the original occupants ofCollapsible A. When Fifth Officer Harold Lowe and six crewmen returned to the wreck site sometime after the sinking in a lifeboat to pick upsurvivors, they rescued a dozen males and one female from Collapsible A, but left the dead bodies of three of its occupants. Only bodies of Titanicvictims were recovered, one in five of the over 1, victims. Some bodies sank with the ship while currents quickly dispersed bodies and wreckageacross hundreds of miles making them difficult to recover.

By June, one of the last search ships reported that life jackets supporting bodies were coming apart and releasing bodies to sink. Titanic was longthought to have sunk in one piece and, over the years, many schemes were put forward for raising the wreck. None came to fruition. The teamdiscovered that Titanic had in fact split apart, probably near or at the surface, before sinking to the seabed. The separated bow and stern sectionslie about a third of a mile 0. They are located Both sections struck the sea bed at considerable speed, causing the bow to crumple and the stern tocollapse entirely. The bow is by far the more intact section and still contains some surprisingly intact interiors.

In contrast, the stern is completely wrecked; its decks have pancaked down on top of each other and much of the hull plating was torn off and liesscattered across the sea floor. The much greater level of damage to the stern is probably due to structural damage incurred during the sinking. Thusweakened, the remainder of the stern was flattened by the impact with the sea bed. The two sections are surrounded by a debris field measuringapproximately 5 by 3 miles 8. Most of the bodies and clothes were consumed by sea creatures and bacteria, leaving pairs of shoes and boots—which have proved to be inedible—as the only sign that bodies once lay there. Since its initial discovery, the wreck of Titanic has been revisited onnumerous occasions by explorers, scientists, filmmakers, tourists and salvagers, who have recovered thousands of items from the debris field forconservation and public display. The ship's condition has deteriorated significantly over the years, particularly from accidental damage bysubmersibles but mostly because of an accelerating rate of growth of iron-eating bacteria on the hull.

On 16 April , the day after the th anniversary of the sinking, photos [] were released showing possible human remains resting on the ocean floor.The photos, taken by Robert Ballard during an expedition led by NOAA in , show a boot and a coat close to Titanic 's stern which experts called"compelling evidence" that it is the spot where somebody came to rest, and that human remains could be buried in the sediment beneath them. Thismeans that all states party to the convention will prohibit the pillaging, commercial exploitation, sale and dispersion of the wreck and its artefacts.

Because of the location of the wreck in international waters and the lack of any exclusive jurisdiction over the wreckage area, the conventionprovides a state co-operation system, by which states inform each other of any potential activity concerning ancient shipwreck sites, like the Titanic, and co-operate to prevent unscientific or unethical interventions. Submersible dives in have found further deterioration of the wreck, including lossof the captain's bathtub. EYOS Expeditions executed the sub dives. It reported that the strong currents pushed the sub into the wreck leaving a"red rust stain on the side of the sub.

After the disaster, recommendations were made by both the British and American Boards of Inquiry stating that ships should carry enoughlifeboats for all aboard, mandated lifeboat drills would be implemented, lifeboat inspections would be conducted, etc. Many of theserecommendations were incorporated into the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea passed in Further, the United Statesgovernment passed the Radio Act of This Act, along with the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, stated that radiocommunications on passenger ships would be operated 24 hours a day, along with a secondary power supply, so as not to miss distress calls.Also, the Radio Act of required ships to maintain contact with vessels in their vicinity as well as coastal onshore radio stations. Once the Radio Actof was passed, it was agreed that rockets at sea would be interpreted as distress signals only, thus removing any possible misinterpretation fromother ships.

Finally, the disaster led to the formation and international funding of the International Ice Patrol , an agency of the United States Coast Guard thatto the present day monitors and reports on the location of North Atlantic Ocean icebergs that could pose a threat to transatlantic sea traffic. CoastGuard aircraft conduct the primary reconnaissance. In addition, information is collected from ships operating in or passing through the ice area.Except for the years of the two World Wars, the International Ice Patrol has worked each season since During the period, there has not been asingle reported loss of life or property due to collision with an iceberg in the patrol area. A Marconi wireless was installed to enable her tocommunicate with stations on the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland.

Titanic has gone down in history as the ship that was called unsinkable. She is commemorated by monuments for the dead and by museumsexhibiting artefacts from the wreck. Just after the sinking, memorial postcards sold in huge numbers [] together with memorabilia ranging from tincandy boxes to plates, whiskey jiggers, [] and even black mourning teddy bears. Several survivors wrote books about their experiences, [] but itwas not until that the first historically accurate book — A Night to Remember — was published. The first film about the disaster, Saved from theTitanic , was released only 29 days after the ship sank and had an actual survivor as its star—the silent film actress Dorothy Gibson. The Titanicdisaster was commemorated through a variety of memorials and monuments to the victims, erected in several English-speaking countries and inparticular in cities that had suffered notable losses.

RMS Titanic Inc. It also runs an exhibition which travels around the world. They include pieces of woodwork such as panelling from the ship'sFirst Class Lounge and an original deckchair, [] as well as objects removed from the victims. In a frequently commented-on literary coincidence,Morgan Robertson authored a novel called Futility in about a fictional British passenger liner with the plot bearing a number of similarities to theTitanic disaster. In the novel, the ship is the SS Titan , a four-stacked liner, the largest in the world and considered unsinkable. And like the Titanic, she sinks after hitting an iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats.

Only recently has the significance of Titanic most notably been given by Northern Ireland where it was built by Harland and Wolff in the capitalcity, Belfast. While the rest of the world embraced the glory and tragedy of Titanic , in its birth city, Titanic remained a taboo subject throughoutthe 20th century. The sinking brought tremendous grief and was a blow to the city's pride. Its shipyard was also a place many Catholics regardedas hostile. While the fate of Titanic remained a well-known story within local households throughout the 20th century, commercial investment inprojects recalling RMS Titanic 's legacy was modest because of these issues.

In on the ship's centenary, the Titanic Belfast visitor attraction was opened on the site of the shipyard where Titanic was built. Despite over 1, shipsbeing built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast Harbour, Queen's Island became renamed after its most famous ship, Titanic Quarter in Once asensitive story, Titanic is now considered one of Northern Ireland's most iconic and uniting symbols. In late August , several groups were vying forthe right to purchase the 5, Titanic relics that were an asset of the bankrupt Premier Exhibitions. The group intended to keep all of the itemstogether as a single exhibit.

Oceanographer Robert Ballard said he favored this bid since it would ensure that the memorabilia would be permanently displayed in Belfastwhere Titanic was built and in Greenwich. There have been several proposals and studies for a project to build a replica ship based on the Titanic.The vessel will house many features of the original, such as a ballroom, dining hall, theatre, first-class cabins, economy cabins and swimming pool.It will be permanently docked at the resort and feature an audiovisual simulation of the sinking, which has caused some criticism. The interiordecoration of the dining salon and the grand staircase were in identical style and created by the same craftsmen.

Large parts of the interior of the Olympic were later sold and are now in the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick , which gives an impression of how theinterior of the Titanic looked. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. British transatlantic passenger liner, launched and foundered in For the ship'ssinking, see Sinking of the Titanic. For the film by James Cameron, see Titanic film. For other uses, see Titanic disambiguation. Titanic departingSouthampton on 10 April Play media. Marconi Company receiving equipment for a 5 kilowatt ocean liner station in the picture, the wireless radioroom of Titanic 's sister ship, the Olympic. The only known picture of Titanic 's wireless radio room, taken by the catholic priest Francis Browne.Harold Bride is seated at the desk. Further information: Grand Staircase of the Titanic , First-class facilities of the Titanic , and Second- and third-class facilities on the Titanic. This section needs additional citations for verification.

In the midst of the cold war—when there was a perceived threat that, at any moment, the world could end in nuclear Armageddon—the Titanicrepresented a containable, understandable tragedy. A mist of nostalgia hung over the disaster—nostalgia for a society that maintained fixed roles, inwhich each man and woman knew his or her place; for a certain gentility, or at least an imagined gentility, by which people behaved according to astrict set of rules; for a tragedy that gave its participants time to consider their fates. She plays Julia Sturges, a woman in the midst of an emotionalcrisis.

Trapped in an unhappy marriage to a cold but wealthy husband, Richard Clifton Webb , she boards the Titanic with the intention of stealing theirtwo children away from him. The film, directed by Jean Negulesco, was not so much about the loss of the liner as the loss, and subsequentrekindling, of love. Yet the story had its roots in real life. Immediately after the Carpathia docked in New York, it came to light that on board theliner were two young French boys—Lolo Michel and Momon Edmond —who had been kidnapped by their father traveling on the Titanic underthe assumed name Louis Hoffman. Fellow second-class passenger Madeleine Mellenger, who was 13 at the time, remembered the two dark-

haired boys, one aged nearly 4, the other 2.

My brother and I played on the forward deck and were thrilled to be there. One morning, my father, my brother, and I were eating eggs in thesecond-class dining room. The sea was stunning. My feeling was one of total and utter well-being. When I think of it now, I am very moved. Theyknew they were going to die. Despite this, the man calling himself Louis Hoffman—real name Michel Navratil—did everything in his power to helpfellow passengers safely into the boats. She escaped to safety with her mother in Lifeboat 14, leaving the sinking ship at a. Witnesses recall seeingthe man they knew as Hoffman crouching on his knees, ensuring that each of his boys was wrapped up warmly. As he handed his elder son over toSecond Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller, who was responsible for loading the boat, Michel stepped back, raised his hand in a salute anddisappeared into the crowd on the port side of the ship.

His son Michel later recalled the feel of the lifeboat hitting the water. After the Carpathia docked in New York, the two boys became instantlyfamous. Back in Nice, Marcelle Navratil, desperate to know about the fate of her children, appealed to the British and French consulates. Sheshowed the envoys a photograph of Michel, and when it was learned that Thomas Cook and Sons in Monte Carlo had sold a second-class ticketto a Louis Hoffman—a name Navratil had borrowed from one of their neighbors in Nice—she began to understand what her estranged husbandhad done. Only a matter of weeks later, Marcelle Navratil arrived in New York. She found Michel sitting in a corner of the room, in the windowseat, turning the pages of an illustrated alphabet book. Edmond was on the floor, playing with the pieces of a puzzle. He let out one long-drawnand lusty wail and ran blubbering into the outstretched arms of his mother.

The mother was trembling with sobs and her eyes were dim with tears as she ran forward and seized both youngsters. Since then I have been afare-dodger of life. A gleaner of time. Edith, a fashion buyer, journalist and stylist, had contacted producer Charles Brackett when she had firstlearned that the Barbara Stanwyck film was going to be made, outlining her experiences and offering her services. The letter elicited no response,as Brackett had decided not to speak to any individual survivors. The filmmakers were more interested in constructing their own story, one thatwould meet all the criteria of melodrama without getting bogged down by the real-life experiences of people like Edith.

The production team did, however, invite her—and a number of other survivors—to a preview of Titanic in New York in April It was anemotional experience for many of them, not least third-class passengers Leah Aks, who had been 18 at the time of the disaster, and her son, Philip,who had been only 10 months old. Leah tried to push her way into this vessel, but was directed into the next lifeboat to leave the ship.

The reunion brought all these memories back. Edith enjoyed the event, she said, and had the opportunity of showing off the little musical pig,together with the dress she had worn on the night of the disaster. Edith congratulated Brackett on the film, yet, as a survivor, she said she hadnoticed some obvious errors. It fairly shot into the water whereas yours gracefully slid into the water. After the melodrama of the Titanic film—themovie won an Academy Award in for its screenplay—the public wanted to know more about the doomed liner. The demand was satisfied byWalter Lord, a bespectacled advertising copywriter who worked for J. Walter Thompson in New York. With an almost military precision—Lordhad worked as both a code clerk in Washington and as an intelligence analyst in London during World War II—he amassed a mountain of materialabout the ship, and, most important, managed to locate, and interview, more than 60 survivors.

The resulting book, A Night to Remember , is a masterpiece of restraint and concision, a work of narrative nonfiction that captures the full dramaof the sinking. On its publication in the winter of , the book was an immediate success—entering the New York Times best-seller list at Number12 in the week of December 11—and since then has never been out of print. Madeleine Mellenger wrote to Lord himself, telling him of heremotions when the Carpathia pulled into New York. I live it all over again and shall walk around in a daze for a few days. Walter Lord became areceptacle into which survivors could spill their memories and fears. The rights to the book were bought by William MacQuitty, an Irish-bornproducer who, like Walter Lord, had been fascinated by the Titanic since he was a boy.

The overall effect MacQuitty wanted to achieve was one of near-documentary realism. Art director Alex Vetchinsky employed his obsessive eyefor detail to recreate the Titanic itself. Working from original blueprints of the ship, Vetchinsky built the center third of the liner, including twofunnels and four lifeboats, an undertaking that required 4, tons of steel. Survivor Edith Russell still felt possessive of the Titanic story—she believedit was hers alone to tell—and she wanted to exploit it for all it was worth. The gentleman writer and the grand lady of fashion hit it off immediately,drawn together by a shared passion for the Titanic and a sense of nostalgia, a longing for an era that had died somewhere between the sinking ofthe majestic liner and the beginning of World War I.

Even though Edith was not employed on the project, MacQuitty was wise enough to realize there was little point in making an enemy of her. AsEdith aged, she became even more eccentric. When she died, on April 4, , she was 96 years old. The woman who defined herself by the very factthat she had escaped the Titanic left behind a substantial inheritance and a slew of Titanic stories. To Walter Lord she pledged her famous musicalpig. Yet, at this time, the membership comprised a relatively small group of specialists, maritime history buffs and a clutch of survivors. BySeptember , when the group held its tenth anniversary meeting, the society had a membership of only A little more than an hour after contact withthe iceberg, a largely disorganized and haphazard evacuation began with the lowering of the first lifeboat.

The craft was designed to hold 65 people; it left with only 28 aboard. Tragically, this was to be the norm: During the confusion and chaos duringthe precious hours before Titanic plunged into the sea, nearly every lifeboat would be launched woefully under-filled, some with only a handful ofpassengers. In compliance with the law of the sea, women and children boarded the boats first; only when there were no women or childrennearby were men permitted to board. Yet many of the victims were in fact women and children, the result of disorderly procedures that failed toget them to the boats in the first place.

Those hours witnessed acts of craven cowardice and extraordinary bravery. In the end, people survived the sinking of the Titanic. Ismay, theWhite Star managing director, helped load some of the boats and later stepped onto a collapsible as it was being lowered. Although no women orchildren were in the vicinity when he abandoned ship, he would never live down the ignominy of surviving the disaster while so many othersperished. Astor deposited his wife Madeleine into a lifeboat and, remarking that she was pregnant, asked if he could accompany her; refused

entry, he managed to kiss her goodbye just before the boat was lowered away. Although offered a seat on account of his age, Isidor Strausrefused any special consideration, and his wife Ida would not leave her husband behind. The couple retired to their cabin and perished together.Molly Brown helped load the boats and finally was forced into one of the last to leave.

She implored its crewmen to turn back for survivors, but they refused, fearing they would be swamped by desperate people trying to escape theicy seas. They contained only survivors. Every conceivable subject was investigated, from the conduct of the officers and crew to the constructionof the ship. Titanic conspiracy theories abounded. Newspapers initially reported that the ship had collided with an iceberg but remained afloat andwas being towed to port with everyone on board. It took many hours for accurate accounts to become widely available, and even then people hadtrouble accepting that this paragon of modern technology could sink on her maiden voyage, taking more than 1, souls with her. In that case, theworld reeled at the notion that one of the most sophisticated inventions ever created could explode into oblivion along with its crew.

Both tragedies triggered a sudden collapse in confidence, revealing that we remain subject to human frailties and error, despite our hubris and abelief in technological infallibility. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating storiesconnecting the past to the present. The R. Titanic has gone down as one of the most famous ships in history for its lavish design and tragic fate.

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Meet the captain, crew, and passengers from all walks of life who lost their lives or survived the sinking. Discover exactly what happened on thedisastrous voyage, the reasons why Titanic sank, and what lessons were learned for the future. Watch the drama unfold as ordinary peoplebecame unsung heroes and the supposedly unsinkable ship became an underwater wreck.?? Whether you're a history buff or simply seeking helpfor a school project, this is the ultimate tribute to Titanic. Many of these recommendations were incorporated into the International Convention forthe Safety of Life at Sea passed in Further, the United States government passed the Radio Act of This Act, along with the InternationalConvention for the Safety of Life at Sea, stated that radio communications on passenger ships would be operated 24 hours a day, along with asecondary power supply, so as not to miss distress calls.

Also, the Radio Act of required ships to maintain contact with vessels in their vicinity as well as coastal onshore radio stations. Once the Radio Actof was passed, it was agreed that rockets at sea would be interpreted as distress signals only, thus removing any possible misinterpretation fromother ships. Finally, the disaster led to the formation and international funding of the International Ice Patrol , an agency of the United States CoastGuard that to the present day monitors and reports on the location of North Atlantic Ocean icebergs that could pose a threat to transatlantic seatraffic. Coast Guard aircraft conduct the primary reconnaissance. In addition, information is collected from ships operating in or passing through theice area. Except for the years of the two World Wars, the International Ice Patrol has worked each season since During the period, there has notbeen a single reported loss of life or property due to collision with an iceberg in the patrol area.

A Marconi wireless was installed to enable her to communicate with stations on the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland. Titanic has gone downin history as the ship that was called unsinkable. She is commemorated by monuments for the dead and by museums exhibiting artefacts from thewreck. Just after the sinking, memorial postcards sold in huge numbers [] together with memorabilia ranging from tin candy boxes to plates,whiskey jiggers, [] and even black mourning teddy bears. Several survivors wrote books about their experiences, [] but it was not until that the firsthistorically accurate book — A Night to Remember — was published.

The first film about the disaster, Saved from the Titanic , was released only 29 days after the ship sank and had an actual survivor as its star—thesilent film actress Dorothy Gibson. The Titanic disaster was commemorated through a variety of memorials and monuments to the victims, erectedin several English-speaking countries and in particular in cities that had suffered notable losses. RMS Titanic Inc. It also runs an exhibition whichtravels around the world.

They include pieces of woodwork such as panelling from the ship's First Class Lounge and an original deckchair, [] as well as objects removedfrom the victims. In a frequently commented-on literary coincidence, Morgan Robertson authored a novel called Futility in about a fictional Britishpassenger liner with the plot bearing a number of similarities to the Titanic disaster. In the novel, the ship is the SS Titan , a four-stacked liner, thelargest in the world and considered unsinkable. And like the Titanic , she sinks after hitting an iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats. Onlyrecently has the significance of Titanic most notably been given by Northern Ireland where it was built by Harland and Wolff in the capital city,Belfast.

While the rest of the world embraced the glory and tragedy of Titanic , in its birth city, Titanic remained a taboo subject throughout the 20thcentury. The sinking brought tremendous grief and was a blow to the city's pride. Its shipyard was also a place many Catholics regarded as hostile.While the fate of Titanic remained a well-known story within local households throughout the 20th century, commercial investment in projectsrecalling RMS Titanic 's legacy was modest because of these issues. In on the ship's centenary, the Titanic Belfast visitor attraction was opened onthe site of the shipyard where Titanic was built. Despite over 1, ships being built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast Harbour, Queen's Island becamerenamed after its most famous ship, Titanic Quarter in Once a sensitive story, Titanic is now considered one of Northern Ireland's most iconic anduniting symbols. In late August , several groups were vying for the right to purchase the 5, Titanic relics that were an asset of the bankrupt PremierExhibitions.

The group intended to keep all of the items together as a single exhibit. Oceanographer Robert Ballard said he favored this bid since it wouldensure that the memorabilia would be permanently displayed in Belfast where Titanic was built and in Greenwich. There have been severalproposals and studies for a project to build a replica ship based on the Titanic. The vessel will house many features of the original, such as aballroom, dining hall, theatre, first-class cabins, economy cabins and swimming pool.

It will be permanently docked at the resort and feature an audiovisual simulation of the sinking, which has caused some criticism. The interiordecoration of the dining salon and the grand staircase were in identical style and created by the same craftsmen. Large parts of the interior of theOlympic were later sold and are now in the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick , which gives an impression of how the interior of the Titanic looked.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. British transatlantic passenger liner, launched and foundered in For the ship's sinking, see Sinking of theTitanic. For the film by James Cameron, see Titanic film. For other uses, see Titanic disambiguation. Titanic departing Southampton on 10 AprilPlay media. Marconi Company receiving equipment for a 5 kilowatt ocean liner station in the picture, the wireless radio room of Titanic 's sistership, the Olympic. The only known picture of Titanic 's wireless radio room, taken by the catholic priest Francis Browne.

Harold Bride is seated at the desk. Further information: Grand Staircase of the Titanic , First-class facilities of the Titanic , and Second- and third-class facilities on the Titanic. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliablesources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. April Learn how and when to remove this template message. The gymnasium on theBoat Deck, which was equipped with the latest exercise machines. Main article: Lifeboats of the Titanic.

See also: Animals aboard the Titanic. Main article: Sinking of the Titanic. The sinking, based on Jack Thayer 's description. Sketched by L.Skidmore on board Carpathia. The iceberg thought to have been hit by Titanic , photographed on the morning of 15 April Note the dark spot justalong the berg's waterline, which was described by onlookers as a smear of red paint. The New York Times had first gone to press Monday, 15April with knowledge of the iceberg collision, but before knowledge of the actual sinking.

London newsboy Ned Parfett with news of the disaster, as reported on Tuesday, 16 April. Arrival of Titanic's survivors at New York artistconcept [o]. Titanic had been scheduled for a 20 April departure from America, documented in an advertisement in The New York Times thatapparently did not have time to be pulled, overnight, before this printing in the 15 April issue. Diagrams of RMS Titanic. Diagram of RMS Titanicshowing the arrangement of the bulkheads in red. Compartments in the engineering area at the bottom of the ship are noted in blue. Names ofdecks are listed to the right starting at top on Boat deck, going from A through F and ending on Lower deck at the waterline.

Areas of damage made by the iceberg are shown in green. The scale's smallest unit is 10 feet 3. A cutaway diagram of Titanic ' s midship section.S: Sun deck. A: Upper promenade deck. B: Promenade deck, glass-enclosed. C: Saloon deck. E: Main deck. F: Middle deck. G: Lower deck:cargo, coal bunkers, boilers, engines. Comparison of Titanic in size to modern means of transport and a person. Timeline of RMS Titanic. LeavesSouthampton dock, narrowly escaping collision with American liner New York. Transport portal Oceans portal United Kingdom portal.

Sir Alfred Chalmers, nautical adviser to the Board of Trade from to , had considered the matter of adjusting the scale "from time to time", butbecause he not only assumed that experienced sailors would need to be carried "uselessly" aboard ship only to lower and man the extra lifeboats,but also anticipated the difficulty in getting away a greater number than 16 boats in any emergency, he "did not consider it necessary to increase[the scale]".

Even though that ship was designed to sink others by ramming them, it suffered greater damage than Olympic , thereby strengthening the image ofthe class being unsinkable. Even though she did not have enough lifeboats for all passengers, they were all saved because the ship was able to stayafloat long enough for them to be ferried to ships coming to assist. The victims would have died from bodily reactions to freezing water rather thanhypothermia loss of core temperature.

Night and day that crowd of pale, anxious faces had been waiting patiently for the news that did not come. Nearly every one in the crowd had losta relative. The waiting crowds thinned, and silent men and women sought their homes. In the humbler homes of Southampton there is scarcely afamily who has not lost a relative or friend. Children returning from school appreciated something of tragedy, and woeful little faces were turned tothe darkened, fatherless homes.

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The film, directed by Jean Negulesco, was not so much about the loss of the liner as the loss, and subsequent rekindling, of love. Yet the story hadits roots in real life. Immediately after the Carpathia docked in New York, it came to light that on board the liner were two young French boys—Lolo Michel and Momon Edmond —who had been kidnapped by their father traveling on the Titanic under the assumed name Louis Hoffman.Fellow second-class passenger Madeleine Mellenger, who was 13 at the time, remembered the two dark-haired boys, one aged nearly 4, theother 2. My brother and I played on the forward deck and were thrilled to be there. One morning, my father, my brother, and I were eating eggs inthe second-class dining room.

The sea was stunning. My feeling was one of total and utter well-being. When I think of it now, I am very moved. They knew they were going todie. Despite this, the man calling himself Louis Hoffman—real name Michel Navratil—did everything in his power to help fellow passengers safelyinto the boats. She escaped to safety with her mother in Lifeboat 14, leaving the sinking ship at a. Witnesses recall seeing the man they knew asHoffman crouching on his knees, ensuring that each of his boys was wrapped up warmly. As he handed his elder son over to Second OfficerCharles Herbert Lightoller, who was responsible for loading the boat, Michel stepped back, raised his hand in a salute and disappeared into thecrowd on the port side of the ship.

His son Michel later recalled the feel of the lifeboat hitting the water. After the Carpathia docked in New York, the two boys became instantlyfamous. Back in Nice, Marcelle Navratil, desperate to know about the fate of her children, appealed to the British and French consulates. Sheshowed the envoys a photograph of Michel, and when it was learned that Thomas Cook and Sons in Monte Carlo had sold a second-class ticketto a Louis Hoffman—a name Navratil had borrowed from one of their neighbors in Nice—she began to understand what her estranged husbandhad done.

Only a matter of weeks later, Marcelle Navratil arrived in New York. She found Michel sitting in a corner of the room, in the window seat, turningthe pages of an illustrated alphabet book. Edmond was on the floor, playing with the pieces of a puzzle. He let out one long-drawn and lusty wailand ran blubbering into the outstretched arms of his mother. The mother was trembling with sobs and her eyes were dim with tears as she ranforward and seized both youngsters.

Since then I have been a fare-dodger of life. A gleaner of time. Edith, a fashion buyer, journalist and stylist, had contacted producer CharlesBrackett when she had first learned that the Barbara Stanwyck film was going to be made, outlining her experiences and offering her services. Theletter elicited no response, as Brackett had decided not to speak to any individual survivors. The filmmakers were more interested in constructingtheir own story, one that would meet all the criteria of melodrama without getting bogged down by the real-life experiences of people like Edith.The production team did, however, invite her—and a number of other survivors—to a preview of Titanic in New York in April It was anemotional experience for many of them, not least third-class passengers Leah Aks, who had been 18 at the time of the disaster, and her son, Philip,who had been only 10 months old.

Leah tried to push her way into this vessel, but was directed into the next lifeboat to leave the ship. The reunion brought all these memories back.Edith enjoyed the event, she said, and had the opportunity of showing off the little musical pig, together with the dress she had worn on the night ofthe disaster. Edith congratulated Brackett on the film, yet, as a survivor, she said she had noticed some obvious errors. It fairly shot into the waterwhereas yours gracefully slid into the water. After the melodrama of the Titanic film—the movie won an Academy Award in for its screenplay—the public wanted to know more about the doomed liner. The demand was satisfied by Walter Lord, a bespectacled advertising copywriter whoworked for J. Walter Thompson in New York. With an almost military precision—Lord had worked as both a code clerk in Washington and asan intelligence analyst in London during World War II—he amassed a mountain of material about the ship, and, most important, managed tolocate, and interview, more than 60 survivors.

The resulting book, A Night to Remember , is a masterpiece of restraint and concision, a work of narrative nonfiction that captures the full dramaof the sinking. On its publication in the winter of , the book was an immediate success—entering the New York Times best-seller list at Number12 in the week of December 11—and since then has never been out of print. Madeleine Mellenger wrote to Lord himself, telling him of heremotions when the Carpathia pulled into New York. I live it all over again and shall walk around in a daze for a few days. Walter Lord became areceptacle into which survivors could spill their memories and fears. The rights to the book were bought by William MacQuitty, an Irish-bornproducer who, like Walter Lord, had been fascinated by the Titanic since he was a boy.

The overall effect MacQuitty wanted to achieve was one of near-documentary realism. Art director Alex Vetchinsky employed his obsessive eyefor detail to recreate the Titanic itself. Working from original blueprints of the ship, Vetchinsky built the center third of the liner, including twofunnels and four lifeboats, an undertaking that required 4, tons of steel. Survivor Edith Russell still felt possessive of the Titanic story—she believedit was hers alone to tell—and she wanted to exploit it for all it was worth. The gentleman writer and the grand lady of fashion hit it off immediately,drawn together by a shared passion for the Titanic and a sense of nostalgia, a longing for an era that had died somewhere between the sinking ofthe majestic liner and the beginning of World War I. Even though Edith was not employed on the project, MacQuitty was wise enough to realizethere was little point in making an enemy of her. As Edith aged, she became even more eccentric.

When she died, on April 4, , she was 96 years old. The woman who defined herself by the very fact that she had escaped the Titanic left behind asubstantial inheritance and a slew of Titanic stories. To Walter Lord she pledged her famous musical pig. Yet, at this time, the membershipcomprised a relatively small group of specialists, maritime history buffs and a clutch of survivors. By September , when the group held its tenthanniversary meeting, the society had a membership of only The celebration, held in Greenwich, Connecticut, was attended by year-old EdwinaMackenzie, who had sailed on the Titanic as year-old second-class passenger Edwina Troutt.

Many people assumed that, after 50 years, the liner, and the myths surrounding it, would finally be allowed to rest in peace. But in the early hoursof September 1, , oceanographer and underwater archaeologist Robert Ballard from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution—together withFrench explorer Jean-Louis Michel from the French organization Ifremer—discovered the wreck of the Titanic lying at a depth of roughly two andhalf miles, and around miles southeast of Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.

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