Gambar : Peristiwa Tenggelamnya Kapal Titanic Pada Peristiwa 10 April 1912
Titanic Memang Ditakdirkan untuk Tenggelam, Inilah Buktinya
Deskripsi :
Semua orang tahu kisahnya: Titanic "kapal yang tak dapat tenggelam" menabrak gunung es. Tragedi ini memang terjadi lebih dari 100 tahun yang lalu. Meskipun satu abad telah berlalu, Titanic tetap menjadi kecelakaan kapal tenggelam paling terkenal dalam sejarah.
Titanic menggambarkan bagaimana kegagalan teknologi sering kali berasal dari serangkaian kesalahan langkah, kegagalan kecil, dan nasib sial dibandingkan satu kesalahan besar. Bagaimana kalau Titanic tenggelam zaman sekarang, apakah skenarionya akan berbeda?
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Hari ini 109 tahun yang lalu, RMS Titanic berlepas untuk pelayaran sulungnya dari Southampton, England.
Kapal penumpang milik White Star Line sepanjang 269.1 meter dan selebar 28.2 meter itu, yang merupakan kapal terbesar pernah dibina pada ketika itu, berlepas pada tengahari Rabu dan dijadual tiba di New York pada pagi 17 April 1912.
Dari pelabuhan Southampton, Titanic membawa 920 penumpang sebelum singgah di Cherbourg, Perancis dan Queenstown (kini Cobh), Ireland. 2,224 penumpang dan kru berada di atas Titanic sebelum ia meneruskan perjalanan merentas Atlantik.
TItanic dibina sebagai simbol kemewahan terunggul, dilengkapi gimnasium, perpustakaan, kolam renang, restoran dan kabin mewah. Dengan teknologi tercanggih, Titanic diyakini oleh pereka dan kaptennya bahawa ia takkan karam.
Namun pada 14 April, selepas empat hari berlayar, Titanic menghentam aisberg pada 11.40 malam, menyebabkan sisi badannya yang berada di bawah paras air robek dan mendedahkan 5 daripada 16 bahagian kedap airnya - ia hanya mampu menanggung 4 kebocoran untuk selamat.
Kesemua yang berada di atas kapal tidak bersedia dengan keadaan tersebut, dan sayangnya Titanic hanya membawa 20 bot keselamatan yang hanya mampu membawa tidak sampai separuh daripada jumlah keseluruhan penumpangnya.
Air semakin banyak memasuki kapal dan ia mula tenggelam secara menegak, akhirnya Titanic terpatah dua sebelum karam sepenuhnya ke dasar laut Atlantik Utara pada jam 2.20 pagi, bersama lebih seribu penumpang dan kru yang masih berada di atasnya.
Dua jam selepas Titanic tenggelam, barulah kapal RMS Carpathia, yang mendapat mesej kecemasan daripada Titanic selepas ia melanggar aisberg, tiba ke lokasi. Hanya 705 orang terselamat daripada tragedi karam yang dianggap paling dahsyat dalam sejarah itu.
Sumber: Britannica, Wikipedia
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T I T A N I C | 111th Anniversary. April 10th 1912: Maiden Voyage.
On this day 111 years ago, the Titanic begins her maiden voyage. From 9:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., passengers board the ship. The large number of Third Class passengers meant they were the first to board, with First and Second Class passengers following up to an hour before departure. Stewards showed them to their cabins, and First Class passengers were personally greeted by Captain Smith on boarding.
At noon, Titanic leaves the dock, 922 passengers were recorded as having embarked at Southampton. Four hours after Titanic left Southampton, she arrived at Cherbourg and was met by Nomadic and Traffic. 274 more passengers boarded Titanic, and 24 left aboard the tenders to be conveyed to shore.
The process was completed within only 90 minutes and at 8 p.m. Titanic weighed anchor and left for Queenstown.
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T I T A N I C | 111th Anniversary.
April 15th 1912..........
On this day 111 years ago (April 15), Shortly after midnight, the Squash court, 32 feet above keel, was awash. The majority of the boilers had been shut down, and huge clouds of steam roared out of the relief pipes secured to the sides of the funnels. Smith ordered the lifeboats to be uncovered and mustered the crew and passengers. There was only enough room for 1,178 people out of an estimated 2,227 on board, if every boat was filled to capacity. Between 12:10 am and 1:50 am, several crew members on Californian saw what is thought to be a tramp steamer's lights. Rockets were also observed, but no great concern was taken. Numerous ships have heard the Titanic's wireless distress signals and many were on their way to assist, including the Cunard liner Carpathia, under the command of Arthur Rostron some 58 miles southeast of the Titanic's position. At 12:15 am, Wallace Hartley and his band began to play lively ragtime tunes in the 1st Class lounge on "A" Deck. They would continue to almost the end, and every member of the band would be lost.
At 12:25 am Smith gave the order to start loading lifeboats with women and children, and this order was particularly followed to the letter by 2nd Officer Lightoller. By 12:45 am, starboard lifeboat No. 7 was safely lowered away with only 28 people, while it could carry 65. At about this same time, the first distress rocket was fired by Quartermaster George Rowe, under the direction of Boxhall, from the bridge rail socket on the Boat Deck by the No. 1 emergency cutter. They soared 800 feet in the air and exploded into 12 brilliant white stars, along with a loud report. Boxhall sees a vessel approach and then disappear, despite attempted to contact her via Morse lamp. By 1:15 am, water had reached Titanic's name on the bow, and she now listed to port. By that time, seven boats had been lowered, but with far fewer passengers and crew than rated capacity. The tilt of the deck grew steeper and boats now began to be more fully loaded, with starboard No. 9 lowered at 1:20 am with some 56 people aboard. The Titanic had now developed a noticeable list to starboard. By 1:30 am signs of panic begin to appear as port No. 14 was lowered with 60 people, including 5th Officer Lowe. Lowe was forced to fire three warning shots along the ship's side to keep a group of unruly passengers from jumping into the already full boat.
Wireless distress calls tapped out by Phillips reached desperation status, with messages such as, "we are sinking fast" and, "cannot last much longer". Smelting magnate Ben Guggenheim, along with his manservant Victor Giglio returned to their cabins and changed into evening dress explaining, "We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen". By 1:40 am most of the forward boats had left and passengers began to move to the stern area. J. Bruce Ismay leaved on collapsible "C" with 39 aboard, the last starboard boat to be lowered. The forward Well Deck was awash. By 2:00 am water was only 10 feet below the Promenade Deck. At about this time, Hartley chose the band's final piece 'Nearer, My God, to Thee'. Hartley had always said it would be the hymn he would select for his own funeral. With more than 1,500 still on board, and just 47 positions available in Collapsible "D", Lightoller instructed the crew to lock arms and form a circle around the boat, permitting only women and children to pass through the circle. At 2:05 am, "D" began its downward journey with 44 people out of a rated capacity of 47.
The sea was pouring on to the forward end of "A" Deck, and Titanic's tilt grew steeper. At that same time, Smith went to the wireless cabin and released Phillips and Bride telling them that they have "done their duty". On the way back to his bridge, Smith told several crewmen "It's every man for himself". His last thoughts were likely of his beloved wife Eleanor and his young daughter Helen.
As Walter Lord described the scene in "A Night to Remember", "with the boats all gone, a curious calm came over the Titanic. The excitement and confusion were over and the hundreds left behind stood quietly on the upper decks. They seemed to cluster inboard, trying to keep as far away from the rail as possible". The stern began to lift clear of the water, and passengers moved further and further aft. At about 2:17 am Titanic's bow plunged under while hundreds of 2nd and 3rd Class passengers heard confession from Father Thomas Byles gathered at the aft end of the Boat Deck.
At 2:18 am a huge roar was heard as all moveable objects inside Titanic crashed towards the submerged bow. The lights blinked once and then went out, leaving Titanic visible only as a black silhouette against the starlit sky. Many were convinced that the hull broke in two between the 3rd and 4th funnels. The ship achieved a completely perpendicular position and remained there for several minutes. At 2:20 am she settled back slightly and slid down to the bed of the North Atlantic some 13,000 feet below.
Almost at once, the night was punctuated with the cries of the survivors, growing in number and anguish until in Thayer's words they became "a long continuous wailing chant". The ghastly noise continued for some time, but mercifully many would freeze to death rather than drown. The cries even affected the hardened Lightoller who heard the "heartrending, never-to-be-forgotten sounds" from overturned Collapsible "A". Later, he confessed that he had never allowed his thoughts to dwell on those terrible cries. At 3:30 am, the Carpathia's rockets were sighted by those in the lifeboats and at 4:10 am Titanic's No. 2 lifeboat was picked up. By 5:30 am, after being advised by the Frankfort of Titanic's loss, the Californian made for the disaster site and arrived about three hours later, just as the last boat, No. 12, was rescued by the Carpathia. True to form, Lightoller was the last survivor to come on board. At 8:50 am the Carpathia left the searching for survivors to other ships and headed for New York. She carried only 705 survivors. An estimated 1,522 souls were lost. J. Bruce Ismay sent the following message to the White Star Line's New York offices: "Deeply regret advise you Titanic sank this morning after collision with iceberg, resulting in serious loss of life. Full particulars later."
With the dawn on Sunday, April 14th - 111 years ago today - Titanic sees what will be her last sunrise. The day passes in tranquility for the passengers, some of whom attend religious services in all three classes. In the wireless room, however, operators Jack Phillips and Harold Bride are working through a backlog of messages held up while the apparatus was broken down earlier in the voyage. As they work to clear the pile of messages from passengers, they take in several new ice warnings. What happens to some of these warnings has been a matter of great interest ever since.
By 10pm, most passengers have gone to bed, are enjoyed some last drinks and cigars in the smoking room and the lounge, or are otherwise indoors. The weather has gotten bitterly cold throughout the day, making a turn on the promenade an unsavory proposition for even the heartiest of passengers.
High in the crow’s nest on the foremast, Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee are just a bit more than 20 minutes from the salvation of a warm bunk and some time off duty after two hours peering into the dark, moonless, motionless night. Suddenly, Fleet sees something looming in the distance directly ahead of the Titanic. He pulled the cord on the bell three times as he lifted the telephone that connected him to the bridge. Sixth Officer James Moody calmly asked what Fleet had seen, to which he responded “Iceberg, dead ahead!” Moody thanked Fleet and reported the sighting to First Officer William Murdoch, who instantly issued a series of orders.
Murdoch, with only 37 seconds to take action, called for Quartermaster Robert Hichens to turn the wheel “hard-a-starboard,” which, due to the Titanic’s tiller system of steering meant she would effectively turn to port. He also had the engine telegraphs rung to “All stop,” not the “Full astern” that has been portrayed on film. Murdoch’s efforts were in vain, however, as Titanic, at least from the perspective of the lookouts on the mast and officers on the bridge, gently grazed along the berg with her starboard side. Below, however, the damage was much more dire.
While most of the passengers and some of the crew thought that the slight jar and the stopping of the engines in mid-ocean meant the ship had thrown a propeller blade or suffered limited damage that would equate to little more than a delay and a subsequent trip back to Belfast for repairs, the reality was grave indeed.
Titanic, designed to float in the worst situations that her builders could conceive, was hopelessly holed in five compartments. After an inspection of the damage, her stricken designer, Thomas Andrews, signed the ship’s death warrant. “I give her an hour and half, maybe two. Not much more.” She would slightly exceed his prediction, but Titanic was doomed.
The next crisis to confront Captain Smith, the first such dire crisis in his nearly 40 years at sea, would be what to do with his human cargo. As he surely knew, Titanic’s twenty lifeboats could hold barely half of the number of souls aboard.
With that in mind, Smith ordered the boats to be uncovered and swung out. He then tasked Phillips and Bride with sending a call for assistance to any ships nearby.
The race to save Titanic’s passengers and crew, a race which would come up sorely short early the next morning, was on.
Titanic had just over two hours to live.
Photo Credit: Simon Fisher Maritime
Titanic Live: April 1st, 2023, midnight (GMT) - Hello friends! April is finally here again, and with it our fourth annual live presentation of Titanic month in full hosted by this page. A great number of talented and knowledgeable people have been very kind to lend advice or correction here, and I thank them very much for their help. Included here will be an increasingly long list of credits and further resources, and I advise anyone interested to take a look. It has been a lot of fun to put it together - just a few notes before we begin:
As a format, Titanic Live will be presented in much the same way other material is here, primarily, with photos and stories. There will, however, be a number of secondary resources, such as film clips, sounds, suggested reading, etc. They are all vetted and much recommended.
As much of our readership is represented by friends all over the world, our systems of measurement have been updated for the first time this year to include both metric and imperial, the latter being presented in parentheses. Likewise, we will be referring to temperatures in both Celsius and Fahrenheit (C°/F°).
Our fourth annual live presentation this year will begin based on Greenwich Mean Time to correspond to a more true linear reconstruction, with initial focus on IST (Belfast) and slowly progressing westward with the course of the ship as the month goes on. By the end of the month we will be based evenly in GMT and EST (US). Much new information has been included, which I hope both our new and long standing members will enjoy.
Corrections are always much appreciated when something may not be as clear as it seems, and the goal here is always accuracy. Please feel free to send a private message. This includes alterations to correct the photo credits if needed, which is also very important to me. I’ve done my best to get them right.
It has been a lot of fun occasionally sharing stories about subjects other than Titanic, and I’m hoping that can continue a bit here, especially after the month is over. Look for the Titanic Live: designation to follow the anniversary timeline specifically.
Finally, I believe it is important to keep up talk on subjects we care about deeply in the context of our own times. It is among the most important reasons that we look forward to sharing this anniversary month with everyone. If for any reason we need to pause this timeline in light of any current events, updates will be forthcoming - though this is unlikely at present.
Thank you all very much for your great questions, comments, and support, and very much looking forward to this 111th anniversary season.
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Paul Lee's real-time recreation of Titanic Month is here - minute to minute updates in GMT and ship's time, and a tracker to watch the vessel's progress (beginning April 2nd): http://www.paullee.com/titanic/titanicgeo/titanicjourney.php
Bill Hammack’s Engineerguy overview of Titanic’s construction comes highly recommended - it can be found here : https://youtu.be/fHmgF4ibmuk
RMS Titanic : Fascinating Engineering Facts
Photo from the collection of the National Archives (UK)
Titanic Live: April 4th, 1912, 1.15 AM (GMT) - Titanic has arrived at the White Star Dock in Southampton, with harbor tugs Ajax, Hector, Neptune, Hercules and Vulcan maneuvering the liner backwards into place at Berth 44 just before 1.30 AM and facing her slightly to the southwest with her port side to the dock - a position allowing easy sailing on Wednesday the 10th.
She will not move from this spot again (save for some minor repositioning during upcoming coaling operations) until she departs for her maiden voyage, six days from now.
Painting by Simon Fisher
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Titanic Live: April 10th, 1912, 7.30 AM - Sailing day is finally here after a week of ceaseless efforts to prepare Titanic at Southampton. Most of the crew boards at this time, followed directly by an 8.00 AM crew muster, with employee health inspections carried out and several no-shows being replaced by those eagerly awaiting the opportunity at dockside.
EJ Smith is seen here aboard Titanic (this view taken at Queenstown tomorrow, on the 11th of April) outside the officers' quarters on the liner’s starboard Boat Deck alongside Chief Purser Hugh McElroy, a fellow long time White Star veteran and recent transferee from Olympic. It is his duty this morning, along with his capable and well trained crew, to oversee and prepare for the boarding and well being of the more than 2,200 souls which will shortly be under his hand for the coming week at sea.
Photo published in The Sphere, April 1912
Wendesday, April 10th of 1912: Titanic sails from Southampton to Cherbourg.
Colorized by Steve Walker
Titanic Live: April 10th, 1912, early afternoon - As Titanic sails away from Southampton for the first and only time, a number of amateur photographers capture the departing new liner from shore, unmistakable in even century old grainy photos with her unique profile and superstructure. Several such photos have come up at auction in recent years, and a likely few still remain unseen and undiscovered to this day.
These are the haunting last views from the port city of a ship carrying more than seven hundred of its natives among her crew, the majority of whom will sadly never see Southampton again.
Photo via Henry Aldridge & Son
Titanic Live: April 10th, 1912, 9.30 AM - Titanic's second and third class passengers begin boarding the liner, many arriving from London on a special LSWR boat train that has left Waterloo station at 7.30 AM. It is a varying array of perfect order and confusion both at dockside and below decks, with luggage marked and hauled aboard which is pulled from baggage cars by horse drawn carts, and with confused stewards leading large groups into deep areas of the vessel that often they themselves are not yet completely familiar with. In Second Class, a bit more order is seen.
Pictured here is the Goodwin family of Wiltshire, traveling Third Class on Titanic on their way to Niagara Falls, New York. They, including infant son Sidney (not photographed here) will be among those boarding the liner at this time.
Photo from the collection of the National Archives (UK)
⚓️ 111 years ago #OnThisDay 10 April 1912, passengers were boarding RMS Titanic. From 9:30 to 11:30 AM, second-and-third-class boat-trains arrived and passengers were boarding ship. At 11:30 first-class boat-train from London arrived at dockside. After that first-class passengers boarded the ship and were escorted to the cabins. In all, 923 passengers boarded Titanic at Southampton, 179 First Class, 247 Second Class and 494 Third Class.
[Photo is from the Southampton set of 1997 Cameron's movie Titanic]
April 10, 1912, Wednesday: By 8:30 that night, Titanic was ready to depart Cherbourg. She raised her anchor and turned north. Her lights sparkled against the night sky as she sailed back into the English Channel.
Here, 'A Last Vision of the Titanic by Night - An Impression at Cherbourg.'
This view gives an excellent impression of the vessel during her one and only visit to the French port, her hundreds of portholes produce a kind of shimmering glow upon the darkness of the surrounding water.
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#TodayInHistory April 11, 1912, 11.30am - Titanic anchors off Roches Point at the entrance to Cork Harbour. Seven 1st Class passengers disembark and seven 2nd and 113 3rd Class passengers embark from the tenders Ireland and America.
One crewman, Fireman John Coffey a native of Queenstown, desserts the ship.
At 1.30pm Titanic departed Queenstown.
This image, taken by theological student Francis Brown as he left the ship, is one of the last-ever photographs of Titanic before she sank.
Titanic Live: April 11th, 1912, evening - Now well on her way from the ship’s last ever port of call, life aboard Titanic has begun to settle into a familiar onboard routine as she enters her second night at sea. A journey along the southern coast of Ireland and out beyond Daunt Rock where her engines are warmed up to just over 20 knots has brought her to the edge of the true North Atlantic by sunset today. Earlier this afternoon, a chance encounter with a French fishing trawler has seen Titanic steam by her so closely that water from the liner’s wake is splashed upon the deck of the smaller boat, and waves are exchanged between those on both trawler and Titanic’s bridge.
Nearly nineteen hundred miles to the west, Canadian Pacific liner RMS Corsican has reported to other vessels nearby that she will be stopping for the evening on account of heavy fog and much drifting sea ice, though not much is made of it.
Portrait of Titanic by Vasilije Ristovic
Titanic Live: April 11th, 1912, 2.00 PM - As Titanic sails away from Ireland for the last time, Third Class passenger Eugene Daly performs “Erin’s Lament” on his uilleann pipes at her stern. To hear a version of the piece played on this hauntingly beautiful instrument by the great Seamus Ennis, see the link here. https://buff.ly/3ucESJi
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View taken of Titanic’s stern at Queenstown on the 11th before departure of the tenders by the Cork Examiner’s Thomas Barker
Titanic Live: April 12th, 1912, morning - The 2,208 passengers and crew aboard Titanic awaken to her first full day on the open Atlantic. She is keeping a brisk pace, and by noon today will have already travelled nearly five hundred miles from Queenstown. The new liner will not be going for any speed records on this trip nor any planned in future, though her performance has so far met or exceeded expectation, and rumors of an early arrival on Tuesday night have persisted since the morning of sailing day.
Though settled, the recent coal strike still weighs heavy on the minds of White Star managers, and in agreement with recent restrictions on usage Titanic’s speeds will be kept well below those of her initial crossing over from Belfast which capped out at just a pulse over to 23 knots. The Olympic class has not been designed to compete with rivals Cunard in swiftness in any case, and though an increase and further test of her speed is tentatively planned for this coming Monday or Tuesday, these are not to be record setting tests in any way - other than, of course, to compare with her eleven months senior sister.
Further off to the west, other more troubling whispers are sparking around the airwaves, telling of an unusually active ice season, though Titanic has not been officially notified of any such danger just yet.
Painting by Ken Marschall, 1997
Titanic Live: April 12th, 1912, afternoon - As Carpathia steams east, several of those aboard document her voyage to the Mediterranean with handheld cameras, novelties still seldomly seen enough at this time that her captain Arthur Rostron makes note of which passengers are traveling with one. Here, members of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hutchinson’s group on Carpathia pose for a photo near her starboard bridge in a rare peek into life aboard the liner during the days immediately preceding the upcoming rescue. This view is taken sometime between April 11th and April 14th on the very same decks upon which Titanic’s survivors will be walking in just under seventy-two hours.
Among those with cameras aboard are the Fenwicks, the Ogdens, and seventeen year old Bernice Palmer, traveling with last year's Christmas present - a Kodak 2A Brownie.
Photo courtesy Henry Aldridge & Son
Titanic Live: April 12th, 1912, 12.00 PM - Lunch is being served during Titanic's second full day at sea, and much talk is still of the wondrous new liner. Shipping lines of the early 20th Century developed devoted passenger followings, and the White Star Line was no exception. Naturally, some comparisons must be being made with Olympic, which sailed on her own maiden voyage in June of last year, and which has already carried many passengers and crew alike now aboard Titanic.
Among the new surprises to those familiar with the older of the two sisters are the Cafe Parisian on B-Deck (pictured), two extended suites on the same level with their own private promenades, and a re-arranged Turkish Bath that echoes the successful sister version already sailing.
Photo published by Newspaper Illustrations Ltd., 1912
Titanic Live: April 12th, 1912, 11.00 AM - From the deck of aging steamer SS Etonian eighteen hundred miles west of Titanic, Captain W.F. Wood photographs this iceberg directly in the heart of the spring Atlantic shipping route. In his period notation written soon after the disaster, he describes the ice as “blue”, or recently turned over and relatively dark in color - thus hard to see at night. Conditions are unusual enough this season that several other views of similar drifting icebergs have already been published in shipping newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic during the early months of the year, though these up to now have remained notices of little consequence.
“Blue berg taken by Captain Wood SS Etonian on 12/04/12 in Lat 41°50N Long 49°50W Titanic Struck 14/04/12 and sank in three hours”
The inscribed coordinates places the ice pictured within 30 nautical miles of Titanic’s final position two days from now, on the evening of the 14th. It should be noted that there is no particular indication that this is in fact the very same iceberg that Titanic will encounter on Sunday evening, but it does illustrate well conditions further west at this time.
Photo courtesy of RR Auctions
Titanic Live: April 13th, 1912, 11.00 PM - In Titanic’s Marconi Room, a short in a transformer tucked into the back corner of the Silent Room causes the ship’s wireless radio to go down for hours, with operators Phillips and Bride searching at length for the problem while private messages pile up.
Company policy dictates that in the event of failure, operators should refrain from repairing equipment themselves, and instead should switch to the much less powerful emergency set until an official Marconi technician can perform the job on shore. Luckily for Titanic’s future survivors, the confident Phillips ignores this policy, eventually finding the source of the short and patching it up in just a matter of minutes once located.
The Marconi equipment will be back up and running by 5.00 AM tomorrow, with a then huge back log of passenger traffic for the tired operators to get through.
Titanic’s Marconi Room photographed on April 11th by Fr. Francis Browne
Titanic Live: April 13th, 1912, late morning - An accidental coal fire that has been burning in Boiler Room 5 since before leaving Belfast is finally declared extinguished. Such fires are common aboard vessels at this time, caused primarily by spontaneous combustion or errant sparks from lit boilers, with coal embers sometimes smoldering for days under piles and in bunkers - as is the case aboard Titanic. In fact, the fire is more truly shoveled out than actually extinguished, a job which when finished reveals little more than burned away paint and a slight warping of the forward bulkhead inboard.
It cannot be overstated that the coal fire - though more than a bit of a nuisance and certainly to be taken seriously - is definitively not believed by historical consensus to have contributed to the destruction of the vessel, nor did it in any way compromise her structural integrity, contrary to some recent dishonest and frankly irresponsible claims toward the opposite based on poor research. Any and all such claims have been meticulously and thoroughly discredited at length by an overwhelming majority of well respected historians on the subject.
Portrait of Titanic’s boiler room via Titanic: Honor & Glory
Titanic Live: April 14th, 1912, 9.12 AM - Cunard liner RMS Caronia reports ice to Titanic, spotted during her eastbound journey from New York City to Liverpool.
“Captain, 'Titanic.' West-bound steamers report bergs, growlers, and field ice in 42 degrees N., from 49 to 51 W. April 12. Compliments. Barr."
Postcard credit CNE Maritime Museum
Titanic Live: April 14th, 1912, early afternoon - The air temperature outside drops throughout the day, accented by a particularly cold wind that drives most passengers indoors, though little seems to have been better there at times.
Heating issues throughout the vessel have meant that temperatures in her public and private spaces alike have been uncomfortably low during much of the duration of the voyage, with some passengers (including Lucy Duff Gordon) describing wearing overcoats and furs indoors - while a few other rooms on the other hand become swelteringly hot.
Still, this is one of only a few complaints recorded during the trip so far, a lack thereof in truth an accomplishment in itself on the voyage of any transatlantic vessel so new.
More interesting ongoing shipboard talk among her passengers is of the liner’s speed - after what is perceived by several of those aboard as a rather disappointing run posted on Friday, she has made now her best miles yet this on voyage over the last twenty-four hours and there is every reason to believe that the run into Monday afternoon will be better still.
Illustration credit Roger-Viollet
Titanic Live: April 14th, 1912, afternoon - Second Class passengers Esther Hart and daughter Eva write a letter home while escaping the cold of the day in the ship’s library. They are traveling to Winnipeg along with husband and father Benjamin Hart, and together intend to open a drug store there. Esther mentions in this letter an illness which has kept her in her cabin during most of the voyage, one seemingly, perhaps, brought on by immigration nerves, as she has been quite vocal about her dread of sailing aboard Titanic in the days before the voyage. Eva will go on to become one of Titanic’s most prominent survivors in her later years before her death in 1996, and this letter will sell at auction in 2014, having survived itself in the pocket of a sheepskin coat given to Esther by her husband later this evening.
“Onboard R.M.S. ‘Titanic’
Sunday afternoon, 191(2)
My Dear ones all,
As you see it is Sunday afternoon and we are resting in the library after luncheon. I was very bad all day yesterday could not eat or drink and sick all the while, but today I have got over it.
This morning Eva and I went to church and she was so pleased they sang “Oh God our help in ages past” that is her Hymn she sang so nicely. So she sang out loudly she is very bonny. She has had a nice ball and a box of toffee and a photo of this ship bought her today. Everybody takes notice of her through the Teddy Bear.
There is to be a concert on board tomorrow night in aid of the Sailors’ Home and she is going to sing so am I. Well, the sailors say we have had a wonderful passage up to now. There has been no tempest, but God knows what it must be when there is one. This mighty expanse of water, no land in sight and the ship rolling from side to side is being wonderful. Tho they say this Ship does not roll on account of its size. Any how it rolls enough for me, I shall never forget it.
It is very nice weather but awfully windy and cold. They say we may get into New York Tuesday night but we are really due early Wednesday morning, shall write as soon as we get there. This letter won’t leave the ship but will remain and come back to England where she is due again on the 26th. Where you see the letter all of a screw is where she rolls and shakes my arm.
I am sending you on a menu to show you how we live. I shall be looking forward to a line from somebody to cheer me up a bit. I am always shutting my eyes and I see everything as I left it. I hope you are all quite well. Let this be an all round letter as I can’t write properly to all ‘till I can set my foot on shore again. We have met some nice people on board, Lucy, and so it has been nice so far. But oh the long, long days and nights. It’s the longest break I have ever spent in my life.
I must close now with all our fondest love to all of you.
From your loving Ess”
Charmingly, seven year old Eva writes below it:
“heaps of love to all and kisses from Eva xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”
Letter via Henry Aldridge & Son
Titanic Live: April 14th, 1912, 11.00 PM - Titanic steams along at 22.5 knots into a dead calm evening. She is overseen on her bridge by officers Murdoch and Moody, with Boxhall nearby in the chart room where he has spent much of the evening working out the liner's position. A slight miscalculation made earlier by Second Officer Lightoller will mean his numbers are off by several miles.
Also on duty are Quartermasters Robert Hichens (at the helm) and Alfred Olliver, who will be heading aft shortly to trim lamps on the vessel's raised compass platform.
At the stern, Quartermaster George Rowe is keeping watch, while in the crow's nest, lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee are just at the halfway point of their shift - due to end at midnight.
The air temperature is hovering around 31°F (-0.5°C), the sea is 28°F (-2°C).
Painting by Simon Fisher
Sunday, April 14, 1912
It's 23:39 and as the Titanic steams at 22 knots, lookout Frederick Fleet high up in the crow's nest, see's the iceberg directly in their path. He quickly rings the Crow's Nest Bell three times, and quickly picks up the phone to contact the bridge. A moment later sixth officer James Moody answers the telephone. 'Yes what do you see?'
'Iceberg Right Ahead!' Replies Fleet.
First officer William Murdoch who is officer of the Watch sees the iceberg at almost the same time as lookout Fleet does and immediately orders quartermaster Robert Hitchens hard to starboard and orders the engines full Stern.
Just 38 seconds after Frederick Fleet first sighted the iceberg, the Titanic begins scrapes alongside busting her plates and letting in the icey cold water of the North-Atlantic.
Ice from the burg falls on to the ship and soon third class Passengers are seen playing with it unaware the danger their all in.
Captain Smith rushes on to the bridge and asks what all the commotion was.
Painting by Ken Marschall, 1992
Titanic Live: April 14th, 1912, 11.39 PM - Peering into the darkness ahead of the ship, lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee suddenly see a looming shape, blacker than the horizon of the moonless sky. Three bells and a call to the bridge conveys the message to Sixth Officer Moody - “Iceberg right ahead”, answered with a quick “Thank you.”
First Officer Murdoch, who has spotted the ice simultaneously from the starboard bridge wing, orders the ship turned hard-a-starboard after signaling "All Ahead Stop" from the bridge telegraph. Quartermaster Robert Hichens turns the wheel, her engine telegraph dings in reply, and an agonizing thirty seven seconds elapse.
Painting by Ken Marschall, 1992
Titanic Live: April 14th, 1912, 11.40 PM - Titanic collides with the iceberg, opening up a series of holes along her starboard side that critically extend along her forward compartments, including an estimated twenty-four inches into Boiler Room 5. It has been calculated that perhaps as little as 1.2 square meters have been opened up to the sea, though at this time, immediate concern is for the handling of the vessel.
Murdoch now orders Titanic to come hard a-port to prevent both the stern of the ship and her propellors from striking the ice, the iceberg then disappearing off into the night just as quickly as it appeared.
The watertight doors are ordered closed.
Painting by Simon Fisher
RMS Titanic Real Time Sinking Remastered
- 12:22 am -
Titanic to Cape Race:
TO HARRISON SANDFORD, NEW YORK. HELLO BOY. DINING WITH YOU IN SPIRIT TONIGHT. HEART WITH YOU. ALWAYS. BEST LOVE, GIRL.
GEORGE SIMUND, NEW YORK. WEATHER DELIGHTFUL. FEELING FINE. HOPE ALL
- 12:27 am -
CQD THIS IS TITANIC
CQD THIS IS TITANIC
CQD THIS IS TITANIC
CQD THIS IS TITANIC
CQD THIS IS TITANIC
CQD THIS IS TITANIC
POSITION 41.44N 50.24W
- 12:27 am -
Frankfurt to Titanic : WHAT IS THE MATTER?
Titanic : CQD THIS IS TITANIC. POSITION 41.44N 50.24W
Frankfurt to Titanic : OK. STAND BY.
- 12:28 am -
Titanic : CQD CQD THIS IS TITANIC
Mount Temple to Titanic : WHAT IS THE MATTER?
- 12:28 am -
Titanic to Mount Temple :
CANNOT READ YOU OLD MAN BUT HERE MY POSITION 41.46N 50.24W. COME AT ONCE. HAVE STRUCK A BERG.
Mount Temple to Titanic : RECEIVE WILL TELL CAPTAIN
Titanic :
CQD THIS IS TITANIC
CQD
CQD
Mount Temple :
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS : THIS IS MOUNT TEMPLE. TITANIC SENDING CQD. SAYS
REQUIRES ASSISTANCE. GIVES POSITION. CANNOT HEAR ME. ADVISE MY CAPTAIN HIS POSITION. AT 41.46N 50.24W
- 12:28 am -
Cape Race :
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS : THIS IS CAPE RACE. TITANIC GIVING POSITION ON CQD
POSITION 41.44N 50.24W
- 12:29 am -
Ypiranga :
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS : THIS IS YPIRANGA. TITANIC GIVES.
CQD HERE: 41.44N 50.24W. REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS : THIS IS YPIRANGA. TITANIC GIVES
CQD HERE: 41.44N 50.24W. REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS : THIS IS YPIRANGA. TITANIC GIVES
CQD HERE: 41.44N 50.24W. REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS : THIS IS YPIRANGA. TITANIC GIVES
CQD HERE: 41.44N 50.24W. REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS : THIS IS YPIRANGA. TITANIC GIVES
CQD HERE: 41.44N 50.24W. REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
- 12:30 am -
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS :THIS IS YPIRANGA. TITANIC GIVES
CQD HERE: 41.44N 50.24W. REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS : THIS IS YPIRANGA. TITANIC GIVES
CQD HERE: 41.44N 50.24W. REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS : THIS IS YPIRANGA. TITANIC GIVES
CQD HERE: 41.44N 50.24W. REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS : THIS IS YPIRANGA. TITANIC GIVES
CQD HERE: 41.44N 50.24W. REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
ATTENTION ALL STATIONS : THIS IS YPIRANGA. TITANIC GIVES
CQD HERE: 41.44N 50.24W. REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
- 12:35 am -
Carpathia to Titanic :
DO YOU KNOW THAT CAPE COD IS SENDING A BATCH OF MESSAGES FOR YOU?
Titanic to Carpathia :
COME AT ONCE. WE HAVE STRUCK. A BERG. IT'S A CQD OLD MAN.
POSITION 41.46N 50.14W
Carpathia to Titanic :
SHALL I TELL MY CAPTAIN? DO YOU REQUIRE ASSISTANCE?
Titanic to Carpathia : YES. COME QUICK
Titanic : CQD REQUIRE ASSISTANCE. CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W STRUCK ICEBERG. CQD
- 12:36 am -
Cape Race : ATTTENTION ALL SHIPS : THIS IS CAPE RACE.
TITANIC GIVES CORRECTED POSITION. 41.46N 50.14W
CALLING HIM. NO ANSWER.
Burma to Titanic : WHAT IS YOUR POSITION?
Titanic to Burma:
POSITION 41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH AN ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
- 12:38 am -
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD. HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD. HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG.
SINKING. CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD. HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga:
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga:
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga :
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga:
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
Titanic to Ypiranga:
TITANIC CQD
HERE CORRECTED POSITION
41.46N 50.14W
REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING.
CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.
- 12:39 am -
Titanic:
TITANIC CQD. I REQUIRE ASSISTANCE IMMEDIATELY.
STRUCK BY ICEBERG IN 41.46N 50.14W
- 12:40 am -
Caronia to all ships and Baltic :
CQD TITANIC STRUCK ICEBERG. REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE.
Mount Temple to Titanic :
OUR CAPTAIN REVERSES SHIP. WE ARE ABOUT 50 MILES OFF.
- 12:44 am -
Frankfurt to Titanic : POSITION 39.47N 50.10W
Titanic to Frankfurt : ARE YOU COMING TO OUR ASSISTANCE?
Frankfurt to Titanic : WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?
Titanic to Frankfurt :
WE HAVE STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. PLEASE TELL CAPTAIN TO COME.
Frankfurt to Titanic : OK. WILL TELL THE BRIDGE RIGHT AWAY.
Titanic to Frankfurt : OK. YES QUICK.
- 12:45 am -
Titanic to Carpathia : WE REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE.
Carpathia to Titanic : OLD MAN WE ARE 58 MILES OFF.
Titanic to Carpathia : ALRIGHT OLD MAN
Olympic to Titanic : SENDING SERVICE MESSAGE. OLYMPIC TO TITANIC
- 12:49 am -
Carpathia to Titanic : DON'T YOU HEAR OLYMPIC CALLING YOU?
Titanic to Carpathia :
NO OLD MAN I CAN'T READ HIM FOR RUSH OF AIR AND NOISE OF STEAM.
- 12:50 am -
Carpathia to Titanic :
PUTTING ABOUT AND HEADING FOR YOU. EXPECT TO ARRIVE ON FOUR HOURS.
Titanic to Carpathia : RECEIVED THANKS OLD MAN.
- 12:55 am -
Titanic to Olympic : SOS
Titanic :
CQD SOS THIS IS TITANIC. WE HAVE STRUCK ICEBERG. SINKING FAST. COME TO OUR
ASSISTANCE.
Titanic to Californian :
CQD CQD STRUCK ICEBERG. SINKING. REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE.
Cape Race to Californian :
SOS FROM TITANIC
CQD IN 41.46N 50.14W
WANTS IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE.
- 12:59 am -
Titanic :
CQD CQD THIS IS TITANIC
I REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE.
POSITION 41.46N 50.14W
Caronia to Baltic :
SOS CQD TITANIC IN 41.46N 50.14W
WANTS IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE.
Baltic to Caronia : RECEIVED
- 1:03 am -
Mount Temple to all ships : TITANIC CALLING SOS
Titanic :
CQD CQD SOS SOS SOS CQD CQD
THIS IS TITANIC 41.46N 50.14W
- 1:10 am -
Olympic : WHO HAS STRUCK AN ICEBERG?
Titanic:
THIS IS TITANIC. WE HAVE STRUCK AN ICEBERG.
POSITION 41.46N 50.14W
TELL CAPTAIN.
Olympic to Titanic : RECEIVED OK
- 1:12 am -
Titanic : CQD CQD SOS SOS
- 1:13 am -
Titanic to Asian :
WANT. IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE.
POSITION 41.46N 50.14W
Asian to Titanic : RECEIVED
Vriginia to Titanic : WHAT IS THE MATTER?
Cape Race to Virginia :
REPORT TO YOUR CAPTAIN TITANIC. HAS STRUCK ICEBERG AND REQUIRES
IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE.
Virginia to Cape Race : RECEIVED
Titanic : [Signals jammed]
- 1:15 am -
Carpathia to Titanic :
WE ARE COMING YOUR WAY. COMING AT FULL SPEED. DOING 15 KNOTS
Titanic to Carpathia : RECEIVED
Titanic : [Multiple signals jammed]
- 1:21 am -
Olympic to Titanic : [Signal jammed]
Titanic to Olympic : WE ARE IN COLLISION WITH A BERG. SINKING HEAD DOWN
Titanic : [Multiple signals jammed]
Olympic to all ships : [Signals jams]
Olympic :
STOP TALKING. STOP TRANSMITTING. JAMMING. ALL STATIONS STOP TALKING
Titanic to Olympic : CAPTAIN SAYS GET YOUR BOATS. READY. WHAT IS YOUR POSITION?
- 1:25 am -
Baltic to Caronia :
PLEASE TELL TITANIC WE ARE. MAKING TOWARDS HER.
WE ARE 243 MILES EAST OF TITANIC.
- 1:30 am -
Virginia to Cape Race :
WE ARE GOING TO TITANIC'S ASSISTANCE. WE ARE 170 MILES NORTH OF TITANIC.
Cape Race to Titanic :
VIRGINIA IS GOING TO YOUR ASSISTANCE. THEIR POSITION.
170 MILES NORTH OF TITANIC.
Titanic to Cape Race : RECEIVED
- 1:35 am -
Caronia to Titanic : BALTIC COMING TO YOUR. ASSISTANCE.
Titanic to Baltic : CAPTAIN SMITH SAYS GET ALL. YOUR BOATS READY. SINKING.
Caronia :
THIS IS CARONIA. TITANIC WE ARE MAKING FOR YOU. KEEP IN TOUCH WITH US.
Titanic to Caronia : RECEIVED
- 1:37 am -
Olympic to Titanic :
POSITION 40.52N 61.18W
ARE YOU STEERING SOUTHERLY. TO MEET US?
Titanic to Olympic : WE ARE PUTTING THE WOMEN OFF IN THE BOATS.
Olympic to Titanic : RECEIVED
- 1:40 am -
Titanic :
WE ARE PUTTING THE WOMEN OFF IN THE BOATS.
WE ARE PUTTING PASSENGERS OFF IN SMALL BOATS
WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN BOATS.
CANNOT LAST MUCH LONGER. LOSING POWER.
- 1:45 am -
Olympic to Titanic : WHAT WEATHER HAVE YOU HAD?
Titanic to Olympic : CLEAR AND CALM
Titanic :
THIS IS TITANIC
ENGINE ROOM GETTING FLOODED
ENGINE ROON GETTING FLOODED
Frankfurt to Titanic :
ARE THERE ANY BOATS AROUND. YOU ALREADY?
Titanic :
CQD SOS CQD SOS CQD SOS
ENGINE ROOM FLOODED
ENGINE ROOM FLOODED
CQD SOS CQD SOS
- 1:47 am -
Baltic to Titanic : BALTIC COMING 200 MILES EAST. WE ARE RUSHING TO YOU
- 1:50 am -
Olympic to Titanic : AM LIGHTING UP ALL POSSIBLE. BOILERS AS FAST AS WE CAN.
Cape Race to Virginia :
PLEASE TELL YOUR CAPTAIN THIS : OLYMPIC IS MAKING ALL SPEED
FOR TITANIC BUT OLYMPIC IS 500 MILES AWAY FROM HER. VIRGINIA
YOU ARE MUCH CLOSER TO TITANIC TITANIC IS ALREADY PUTTING WOMEN
OFF IN THE BOATS AND HE SAYS THE WEATHER IS CALM AND CLEAR. THE
OTHERS MUST BE A LONG WAY FROM TITANIC.
Virginia to Cape Race : OK. PUTTING ON SPEED.
- 1:53 am -
Titanic :
CQD CQD SOS SOS
THIS IS TITANIC
- 1:54 am -
Carpathia to Titanic : BALTIC COMING TO YOUR ASSISTANCE.
- 1:55 am -
Titanic to Carpathia :
COME AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. OLD MAN. THE ENGINE ROOM.
IS FILLING UP TO THE BOILERS.
Carpathia to Titanic : RECEIVED
- 1:57 am -
Frankfurt to Titanic : ARE THERE ANY BOATS AROUND. YOU ALREADY?
- 1:58 am -
Titanic :
CQD CQD CQD SOS SOS SOS
CQD THIS IS TITANIC
Titanic to Carpathia :
COME QUICK. SHE'S TAKING ON WATER. IT'S FILL UP TO THE BOILERS.
Carpathia to Titanic:
ALL OUR BOATS ARE READY.
WE ARE COMING AS HARD AS WE CAN OLD MAN.
DOUBLE WATCH ON ENGINE ROOM. HAVE YOUR LIFEBOATS READY WHEN WE ARRIVE.
Titanic to Carpathia : COME AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE OLD MAN
Titanic : CQD SOS SOS SOS CQD
- 2:00 am-
Frankfurt to Titanic : WE ARE 100 MILES OFF. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?
Titanic to Frankfurt :
FOOL. YOU FOOL. STAND BY. STAND BY. STAND BY AND KEEP OUT. KEEP OUT.
Baltic to Caronia : WE ARE HEADING FOR TITANIC BUT I CAN'T AGREE TO SIGNALS.
Caronia to Baltic :
TITANIC GIVES CQD AND SOS HER ENGINE ROOM IS FILLING UP TO THE BOILERS.
Asian to Cape Race : HAVE CALLED TITANIC BUT NO REPLY. HE CANNOT HEAR ME.
- 2:05 am -
Baltic to Cape Race : TITANIC SIGNAL IS WEAK. DO YOU HAVE NEWS OF TITANIC?
Cape Race :
WE HAVE NOT HEARD FROM TITANIC FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR.
HIS POWER MAY BE GONE.
- 2:07 am -
Titanic :
[Captain Smith relieves the Wireless Operators from their duty. Declares all crew to abandon ship]
Titanic : [Wireless operators argues over leaving their post]
- 2:10 am -
Titanic : CQD CQD THIS IS TITANIC
- 2:10 am -
Titanic :
CQD TITANIC
WE ARE SINKING FAST. PASSENGERS ARE BEING PUT IN BOATS. TITANIC
- 2:12 am -
Virginia to Titanic :
CANNOT READ YOUR SIGNAL. YOU NEED TO TRY YOUR EMERGENCY SET.
- 2:13 am -
Titanic : SOS SOS CQD CQD TITANIC
- 2:14 am -
Titanic :
CQD THIS IS TITANIC
CQD THIS
- 2:15 am -
Titanic : [Wireless operators abandons their post as the signals has been lost]
- 2:17 am -
Virginia to Titanic : YOU NEED TO TRY YOUR EMERGENCY SET.
- 2:20 am -
[Titanic founders]
Olympic :
NO. KEEPING STRICT WATCH BUT HEAR NOTHING MORE FROM TITANIC.
NO REPLY FROM HIM.
- 3:05 am -
Carpathia to Titanic : IF YOU ARE THERE WE ARE FIRING ROCKETS.
- 3:30 am -
Carpathia : [Calls for Titanic]
- 3:35 am -
Carpathia : [Spots a green flare. Rescue has arrive]
- 3:48 am -
Birma to Titanic :
STREAMSHIP FULL SPEED FOR YOU. SHALL ARRIVE YOU 6-0 IN MORNING. HOPE
YOU ARE SAFE. WE ARE 50 MILES NOW.
- 4:10am -
Carpathia : [Begins picking up the 712 survivors]
- 4:28 am -
La Provence to Celtic : NOBODY HAS HEARD FROM THE TITANIC FOR ABOUT 2 HOURS.
- 5:34 am -
Californian : [askes for information]
Mount Temple to Californian : [Informs them of Titanic's situation and last reported position]
- 8:45 am -
Carpathia : [Reports that she rescued the Titanic survivors]
- 8:45 am -
Carpathia to Baltic :
AM PROCEEDING TO HALIFAX OR NEW YORK
FULL SPEED. YOU BETTER PROCEED TO LIVERPOOL.
HAVE ABOUT 800 PASSENGERS ABOARD.
- 8:50 am -
Carpathia to Virginian :
WE ARE LEAVING HERE WITH ALL ON BOARD ABOUT 800 PASSENGERS.
PLEASE RETURN TO YOUR NORTHERN COURSE.
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Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 12.06 AM - Passengers begin gathering in Titanic’s reopened lounge on A-Deck to escape the cold outside before boats are made ready for launching. The ship’s band is nearby, beginning a few minutes later in the grand staircase and playing ragtime, mostly, or standards of the day. The mood is still light, though it is now quite clear that something has happened which will likely at least delay the voyage significantly. Rumors circulate of a thrown propellor blade, and several aboard wonder out loud whether this may mean a return to Belfast for repairs.
Above a doorway in the Lounge hangs this ornately carved oak panel (inset, original location onboard indicated by yellow arrow) which will be recovered from the sea in the weeks after the disaster and which is now in the collection of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax.
Hear I Salonisti perform Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band", performed at this time aboard Titanic as musicians keep the air cheery - here: https://buff.ly/3cE4kRZ
Titanic Orchestra "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
Olympic’s Lounge here photographed by Robert Welch, 1911 (none surviving from Titanic), inset photo credit CNE Maritime Museum via the Peabody Essex Museum
Launch of Lifeboat #7 (at left), photo credit 20th Century Fox
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 12.45 AM - Starboard lifeboat number seven is the first away from Titanic, overseen by officers Murdoch and Lowe and carrying nearly 30 people, including silent film actress Dorothy Gibson, on her way back to the US after a vacation in Europe with her mother. "I shall never ride in my little gray car again," Gibson laments as the boat is launched, followed directly by neighboring Boat #5 just a few minutes later. Upon reaching the water, it is discovered that no rainwater plug is present in the bottom of the boat, and stockings and undergarments are duly handed up to fill this purpose.
Additionally, Dr. Frauenthal, who just hours ago helped see to Mrs. Harris's broken arm, now leaps to safety as Boat #5 inches down the falls, landing on passenger Annie Stengel and breaking several of her ribs in the process.
In the wireless room, operators Phillips and Bride begin using the new SOS distress signal.
Painting by Tom Freeman, 1994
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 12.47 AM - Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall launches the first in a series of rockets from Titanic's port bridge wing in an attempt to signal any nearby vessels, including one that has been first spotted off Titanic’s port side some twenty minutes ago. These lights appear to be so close by that early lifeboats launched from the sinking liner do so under orders to row to them and unload passengers before returning. Note the lights of this steamer on the horizon at left in this view, here showing Titanic slightly later in the night, around 1.30 AM or so.
No response is ever seen from them, and the lights will disappear from view a few minutes before 2.00 AM.
Photo credit to 20th Century Fox
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 2.10 AM - Water is now quickly sweeping up Titanic's Boat Deck, covering over her bridge and washing both collapsibles A and B off the ship, each with a number of passengers and crew attempting to hold on. Of those who survive the liner's final plunge, most will be near by to these rafts as she goes under by the head.
It is also around this time that Titanic's band members stop playing, the ragtime of the earlier evening long since switched to hymns. Though it isn't known with certainty which was the last song played, it is "Nearer My God to Thee" which will always be most closely associated with the disaster.
Taryn Harbridge has recorded a lovely version, which can be heard here : https://youtu.be/oOwXwB5wf5w
Nearer My God To Thee on Violin - Taryn Harbridge
Titanic now has ten minutes to live.
Illustration published in the Illustrated London News, May 1912
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 3.30 AM - As the 712 survivors of the Titanic disaster find themselves alone and adrift in the middle of the freezing North Atlantic, all facets of the human experience are exposed, often in odd ways.
Dick Williams, having been saved from his precarious position aboard swamped Collapsible A, finds himself obsessed with a dent in a fellow passenger’s bowler hat, attempting several times to alert him to this, though the passenger does not speak English, and seems confused by his interest.
In Lifeboat #6, a gloomy Robert Hichens, already having been rebuked by several of the boat’s passengers, sees fit to speculate that it is likely that they will be adrift and starving for days. When Carpathia is spotted shortly before 4.00 AM, he announces that she is only here to pick up the remains of the dead.
Lightoller on the other hand has almost seized the moment, directing a coordinated effort to keep upside down Collapsible B from foundering with the weight of the almost 30 men aboard its hull. He is described later by some nearby survivors as seeming nearly impervious to the cold, despite having been pulled under deeply by the sinking liner, very nearly losing his life in the process.
Most, however simply wait quietly, stunned by the magnitude of what has just transpired. Across the sea, little is heard except an occasional officer’s whistle, or a distant hymn sung by other groups of survivors.
Painting by Ken Marschall
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, early morning - As dawn begins breaking, the scene of Titanic’s sinking has long grown quiet. In the boats, stunned survivors have waited out the night, some silently, others in open grief. Carpathia’s rockets sighted on the horizon in the pre-dawn hours are the first comfort to many - likewise, aboard the little Cunarder, green flares from Titanic boats are the first sign that she has arrived at the site of the disaster. Rostron and her officers had held out hope that perhaps Titanic had lost power but remained afloat.
All that is gone now as a ragged flotilla of survivors becomes clearer with the growing light of day, adrift in a sea of ice that nearly destroyed Carpathia herself on her own journey north. Stoically, and with great purpose, Rostron takes oversight of the rescue of 712 souls.
Photo credit CNE Maritime Museum
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 6.45 AM - This is the first known photo taken of a Titanic lifeboat from the deck of Carpathia (it in fact shows two), taken from the rail of the rescue ship by Mabel Fenwick a few minutes before 7.00 AM.
In front, we see Lifeboat #14 commanded by Fifth Officer Lowe, notably with its mast and sail up. Towed behind is Collapsible D, lowered late in the sinking and filled to the brim with survivors. These two boats will arrive at the side of Carpathia at approximately the same time, and will be offloaded around 7.15.
Among the saved between the two will be Renée Harris, Esther and Eva Hart, Charlotte and Marjorie Collyer, and R. Norris Williams, picked up previously from swamped Collapsible A.
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 6.50 AM - Carpathia awaits as a warm welcome to those shivering in Titanic’s approaching boats, each loaded to varying degrees of capacity in the chaos of the previous evening. Here we see the approach of number 14 (with sail raised), with Collapsible D in tow, 5th Officer Lowe at the tiller, and Mrs. Harris aboard the latter boat with her injured arm in a sling. The Cunarder’s arrival marks the first bastion of safety for those still numbed by the horrific evening they have just endured, her name now forever synonymous with heroism at sea.
Many thanks extended to Tatiana Yamshanova for her excellent work in creating this painting for us during our first Titanic Live running in 2020, based primarily around our original negative taken by Mabel Fenwick. For more of her wonderful artworks, be sure to visit her page here : https://buff.ly/3wY10cv
That is beautiful artwork. I'd like to see the original negative as well. Was the original taken by a survivor from the Titanic?
Photo courtesy Tyne & Wear Archives
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 8.30 AM - Lifeboat #12 is unloaded by Carpathia, the last picked up by the vessel. The boat is sluggish, being filled to beyond capacity by additional survivors picked up from Collapsible B, including Second Officer Lightoller, who will be the last survivor to board the rescue ship.
As the final rescue finishes up, last hopes for many who had waited for their loved ones begin to fade. Rumors circulate that other ships may have picked up survivors, but these are unfounded wishes, nothing more.
The liner’s public rooms and her decks are filled to the brim, some of them Titanic’s men but a majority women and children. An additional load of more than seven hundred has found survivors seeking a place in nearly every nook of the vessel, and Carpathia’s passengers and crew rise to the occasion, offering out their own cabins or donating clothes.
Here is this staircase again from above, with the last A in Carpathia again tiled into the floor just visible at bottom left. Tyne & Wear Archives
The rescue complete, Carpathia will shortly be leaving the scene.
Titanic was only the second ship to have a pool, the first being her sister ship Olympic, and by modern standards it wouldn't have been much to look at. It was indoor on F deck, 30ft long by 14ft wide, so about 10m x 4.75m, forward on the starboard side and was reserved for first class passengers only. It would be emptied during rough seas to prevent the water sloshing, but at the time it was revolutionary.
The water would have been seawater as water purification wasn't possible on ships at the time and freshwater supply was limited. All ship’s plumbing not for drinking—baths, toilets and pool—was saltwater and heated, including the pool.
Colonel Archibald Gracie used it in the afternoon before the collision and he found it the nicest swim he'd ever had. He then wrote how his pleasure would have been “curtailed had I known how close that would've been to being my last plunge and before the dawn of another day I'd be swimming for my life in mid ocean”.
Other ocean liners quickly jumped on the bandwagon, in particular the German liners of the Hamburg-American line like the Imperator class which incorporated larger pools.
By the 20s it was a standard for a top liner to have at least one or more. Today almost every cruise ship has three or more, and the largest has at least 7, including surf simulators.
Here, the first class swimming bath on Olympic. Also, the only known photo of Titanic’s pool.
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Titanic's First Class accommodations were located amidships where the rocking of the ship was less keenly felt and passengers were less likely to get seasick.
The suites came with wardrobe rooms, private baths, and in some cases, private promenades. Rooms were equipped with heaters and special gimbal lamps that were designed not to tip over in choppy seas.
A wealthy family could purchase several adjacent First Class cabins and open the interconnecting doors and walk directly from one room to another without stepping into the hallway.
First Class catered to 735 passengers and featured single-room cabins, as well as multi-room suites. The staterooms were decorated in period styles, including styles ranging from the periods of Louis XVI, Louis XV, Georgian and Queen Anne.
Also on the First Class wing were several single-bed standard cabins used by servants and staff. Naturally, every suite had a call bell for summoning the steward.
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Undated photo of Birma via Hidden Liverpool
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 8.40 AM - An often forgotten ship involved in Titanic’s story is SS Birma, built in Glasgow as Arundel Castle for the Castle Line in 1894. By April 1912 she is working under the Russian American Line and had left New York on April 11th bound for Libau (now Liepāja, Latvia) when she received Titanic’s distress call during the early hours of the 15th.
Unlike most other vessels which responded, Birma actually made it to the site of Titanic’s sinking while Carpathia was still picking up boats, and was photographed from the rescue ship searching the area herself. The vessel will find little however, save for strewn wreckage and ice.
A week after the disaster, a group of British passengers aboard Birma held a memorial for those lost on Titanic and even raised a small British flag to half staff aboard the Russian liner, itself having been hand sewn from scraps by those who had inadvertently been to the scene just days earlier.
Postcard credit CNE Maritime Museum
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, mid morning - The rescue of Titanic’s survivors now complete, Carpathia has left the scene at approximately 8.50 AM. SS Californian and SS Birma have been left behind to search the area for anyone remaining, though only scattered wreckage is seen, including chairs, wood fragments, and a large amount of insulating cork.
Rostron has debated what exactly to do with his new charges - going onward to Gibraltar is now out of the question. The Azores are considered for a time, as is Halifax to the north, but worries over possible loss of radio contact and the ice before them ends these ideas as well.
It is decided that Carpathia will return to New York, the decision relayed by wireless to the offices of both the White Star and Cunard Lines.
Photo from the collection of the National Archives (UK), inset photo by Lawrence Stoudenmire
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, late morning - As Carpathia steams west toward New York, passengers and crew navigate an incredibly cluttered deck, now loaded with an additional thirteen Titanic lifeboats. Cast adrift this morning after the rescue are the four collapsibles (we’ll see more of two of them later), as well as boats 4, 14, and 15.
Causing more trouble still is a crated automobile carried on Carpathia’s deck (see inset photo). The Packard is owned by passenger Louisa Fowler, traveling to Italy on the liner with her two sisters. The three intend to use the car to tour in mainland Europe, and one can only presume that they did indeed carry out their plan on their eventual, if delayed arrival. In the meantime however, the car causes quite a bit of nuisance for those trying to work around it in the chaos.
Photo by Bernice Palmer, from the collection of the National Museum of American History
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, afternoon - Across Carpathia’s decks, some semblance of strange routine begins to set in through the preparedness and foresight of her officers and crew. Meals are served, blankets are distributed, sleeping arrangements are beginning to be sorted out, and lists of names are taken to be transmitted over the wireless and back to shore.
Among those crossing her decks is seventeen year old Carpathia passenger Bernice Palmer with her Kodak Brownie. She will take some of the most iconic images of the hours following the rescue - ones which she will sell later to Underwood & Underwood in New York for the unfortunate sum of ten dollars, unaware of the great value of the images she has captured.
Here, George and Dorothy Harder (at left) speak with fellow Titanic survivor Sallie Beckwith, who has escaped the liner along with her husband and daughter Helen Newsom. The Harders have themselves been married since only January, and have been traveling through Europe since, boarding Titanic at Cherbourg on the evening of the 10th. All have escaped in early lifeboat #5, along with tennis player Karl Behr.
Portrait of Olympic at Plymouth via the Plymouth City Arts Council
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 4.37 PM - Olympic radios Carpathia to ask whether she should steam to the rescue ship’s location to take on survivors. Rostron has his own feelings about this, but nonetheless seeks out the opinion of Bruce Ismay, who is at present holed up in the cabin of Carpathia’s surgeon and heavily sedated with opiates. Ismay shudders at the suggestion, and an understanding Rostron sends a decline in response, wary of what the appearance of a nearly identical vessel on the scene will likely do to those who have just escaped Titanic.
Olympic will stand by, then proceed on toward Southampton, cancelling all extracurriculars onboard and flying her flags at half staff as a mark of respect for the dead.
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, evening - News of the disaster has leaked out slowly to the rest of the world via wireless, though a tight-lipped policy aboard Carpathia initially leads to some truly speculative journalism even by 1912 standards.
False reports abound, with headline claims that all aboard have been rescued or that Titanic is being towed into Halifax being two of the most popular. In New York, IMM president Philip Franklin has continued to deny that that the liner has gone down, convinced by an erroneous report via Montreal that she is on her way to Nova Scotia. Over the course of the evening however, the news trickling into the White Star offices grows more and more grim.
By 6.30, Franklin will receive word from Halifax that there is no such operation to tow her in, and that Titanic has in fact been lost. He will reveal the now known truth in an emotional press conference shortly thereafter, saying “I thought her unsinkable and I based my opinion on the best expert advice. I do not understand it.”
Newspaper headlines from the archives of the Oakland Tribune, the Washington Times, the Seattle Star, the Vancouver World, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Photo from the archives of the New York Times
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 10.32 PM EST - A chaotic news room at the New York Times is photographed this evening as reporters frantically race to correct what they can of previous reports with the little information available at hand. Note here the calendar date on the post at center, the rubbish strewn floor covered in previous copy, and the late time indicated by the wall clock at right, the liner now on the seabed 22 hours. These are the last that only a select few ashore know the true fate of Titanic - namely, officials at White Star, a few family and friends who have been contacted by those on Carpathia directly, and those here who have been tasked with breaking the news. The public at large will learn the truth at last with the early editions of tomorrow’s papers.
On Carpathia, survivors are settling into their first evening aboard her, tucked mostly uncomfortably into spare nooks and in beds set up hastily in her saloons and other spaces, though a few have been given access to staterooms by the generosity and kindness of the Cunarder’s passengers and crew alike. Doctors are attending to those with injuries or frostbite, and in several private meetings Arthur Rostron has been given a more thorough synopsis of last night’s terrible events by a few of those who have escaped with their lives.
In still sleeping England, pioneering American aviator Harriet Quimby is during these wee hours readying her Blériot XI monoplane for the coming morning’s flight from Dover to Calais. Her success tomorrow will make her the first woman to pilot a flight solo over the English Channel, though she has probably not yet heard the news of Titanic, and what little she may have anyway would not seem likely to be of seriousness enough to overshadow her fine upcoming achievement.
Note: This story has gone up several hours earlier than the true timeline being run here, with this view having been taken just after 10.30 PM EST, but this choice was made to allow readers an earlier chance to prepare for tomorrow’s news where possible. It is the only post this month which will purposefully be out of alignment.
Titanic Live: April 15th, 1912, 2.18 AM - Titanic's lights go out, flash, and then go out again forever as her electrical system fails. Nearly simultaneously, the dark shape of her hull continues rising against the sky until the stresses against it become too great and she breaks in two, sparks flying from metal contact and with several deck lights likely still glowing at her stern.
Slowly, she rises upright again until she points nearly straight up just as she vanishes beneath the surface.
Painting by Ken Marschall, 2002
Titanic Live: April 16th, 1912, early morning - All doubt is gone now as the worst is confirmed, and Tuesday morning finds those who may have until now held on to some measure of hope or disbelief facing the news spread across every early edition the world over.
Titanic is indeed lost, and a tragically high number of those aboard have clearly gone with her.
Facsimile of original printed by the Boston Daily Globe, April 16th, 1912
Titanic Live: April 17th, 1912, late afternoon - By now, an insatiable public interest in the Titanic disaster has taken hold around the world, spurred on by both ceaseless reporting and the continuing worry over the fate of those known to be aboard her. Proving immediately popular are the few remaining postcards originally printed to advertise the new liner, the earliest of these sent still proudly proclaiming her “one of the largest vessels afloat at the present time”. The written messages, however, carry a very different feeling, such as this rather vague message (inset), expressed here today by a family member awaiting news:
“London.E.C
5.30 PM
APL 17 12
Dear George,
Just a line to thank you for your letter, glad to see you are improving and hope your sister is better than she was last night. No more at present.
Edie”
Postcard credit CNE Maritime Museum
Opposite side, still printed as saying that Titanic was afloat. Versions printed after the disaster will refer to the ship in past tense, and add the date and circumstances of her sinking at bottom.
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On this date in 1912, Titanic’s 24-year old look-out man Frederick Fleet, through a slight haze, spotted what he later described as something ‘about the size of two tables’ lying directly in the vessel’s path (April 14, 1912)
He immediately rang the ship’s crow’s nest bell three times and telephoned the Bridge and reported to Sixth Officer James P. Moody. The deck officer asked 'What do you see?', Fleet replied ‘Iceberg right ahead’ and Moody ended their short conversation with 'Thank you.'
The message was immediately relayed to First Officer William Murdoch who ordered the engines full astern and the helm hard-a-starboard. As Titanic slowly turned to port (in 1912 helm orders were the reverse, a leftover from sailing ship days) at 11.40pm she collided with an iceberg. The impact caused underwater damaged to her first six compartments, the first five flooding out of control.
She eventually sank during the early hours of the following morning - the 15th April 1912 - after approximately 2 hours 40 minutes.
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The White Star Line RMS Olympic 1911-1935, "The Old Reliable" at New York Harbour,
United States.
Photographer : Unknown
Colorized picture by Rhett Young Joubert.
A crowd of spectators looks on as the RMS Olympic slowly docks in New York City. On the other side of the world, her sister ship, the RMS Titanic, was already underway from Southampton on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
April 10, 1912
Credit: Library of Congress
On this day : February 7 1924
RMS Olympic departed from Belfast for the last time. RMS Olympic returned to Harland & Wolff in December 1923 for a major refit lasting eight weeks.
This photograph was taken on 7 February 1924 after her departure was delayed from the 5th due to high winds.
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RMS Olympic, in the lower reaches of the Tyne in October 1935, on her way to commence demolition at Jarrow.
Olympic after the loss of Titanic, note the added lifeboats
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