The sinking of Titanic Titanic sets sail ueenstown At noon, on 10th April 1912, Titanic set sail from Southampton Southampton on its maiden voyage to New York City. It ewfoundland Cherbourg had around 2200 people on board, including passengers Introduction Titanic and crew. ew ork The sinking of RMS Titanic in April 1912 is one of the most famous maritime disasters in British history. Titanic was a luxurious, state-of-the-art liner that was heralded Iceberg warnings Location of the sinking of RMS Titanic as ‘unsinkable’. Thousands of excited passengers embarked on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. On 14th April 1912, Titanic received several wireless Panic on board However, the tragic consequences of ignoring iceberg messages from other ships warnings became clear and believing the ship was reporting drifting ice. Believing the ship ‘unsinkable’, the crew had not been unsinkable took on a bitter irony. The icebergs were located off trained properly in emergency procedures, so panic the coast of Newfoundland. ensued. Tragically, there were only enough lifeboats for Nevertheless, Titanic half of those on board. Most lifeboats took women and continued at full steam. children only, while many third-class passengers were left trapped below decks as the ship filled with water. At 2:20am on 15th April, nearly three hours after hitting the iceberg, Titanic sank. Her stern (back) rose out of the water and the ship broke in half. Rescued passengers had to watch in horror as those who were trapped plunged into the icy water. Although the crew sent distress signals, none of the Disaster strikes ships who responded to them were able to reach Titanic before she sank. It is estimated that over 1500 people Image from: Wikimedia Commons/Public domain Wikimedia Commons/Public from: Image Four days after leaving Southampton were killed and only 700 survived. and about 370 miles from its destination, the lookout crew spotted Accommodation an iceberg in the ship’s path. Titanic Passengers on board were separated could not avoid hitting it and at into first, second and third-class 11:40pm on 14th April, Titanic collided accommodation. Amongst the first-class with an iceberg, damaging its hull. passengers were millionaires and actors, who paid up to £870 per ticket (equal to The crew soon realised Titanic almost £100,000 today). Most of the 107 was doomed, so they alerted the children on board were in the third-class passengers and attempted to prepare Image from: Wikimedia Commons/Public domain Wikimedia Commons/Public from: Image quarters below deck. domain Wikimedia Commons/Public from: Image lifeboats. First class accommodation The last lifeboat launched from Titanic Frozen Kingdoms Downloaded by Wilson at Green Park Community Primary School on 29/12/20 Develop_2/Titanic Copyright © 2020 Cornerstones Education Limited Page 1 of 6 DIRECTORY FOR THE WEATHER. ADVERTISERS CLEARING SLIGHTLY WARMER WILL BE FOUND TO-DAY ON FOR DETAILED WEATHER REPORT SEE PAGE 13, COLUMN 7. PAGE 10. COLUMN. 2 THE NEW YORK HERALD.(COPYRIGHT-1912 WHOLE .NO 27,630 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1912 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES BY THE NEW YORK HERALD COMPANY) PRICE THREE CENTS THE TITANTIC SINKS WITH 1,800 PERSONS ON BOARD; ONLY 675 OF HER PASSENGERS SAVED Image from: Wikimedia Commons/Public domain Wikimedia Commons/Public from: Image MOST APPALLING DISASTER IN MARINE HISTORY OCCURS WHEN WORLD’S LARGEST STEAMSHIP STRIKES GIGANTIC ICEBERG AT NIGHT Scores of world’s most widely known steamships, sank to the bottom of the persons, including Colonel John Jacob sea at twenty minutes past two o’clock Astor and his wife, William T Stead yesterday morning. and Isidor Straus among those whose Despatches received late last night fate is in doubt. from the Cape Race Wireless station in Newfoundland and admissions reluctantly In the darkness of night in water made at the same time by New York two miles deep, Titanic, newest of the officials of the White Star Company, White Star fleet and greatest of all ocean warrant the fear that of the 2,200 person Frozen Kingdoms Downloaded by Wilson at Green Park Community Primary School on Develop_2/Titanic 29/12/20 Page 2 of 6 Copyright © 2020 Cornerstones Education Limited who were aboard the great vessel when It was learned that the full text of the she received her mortal wound in collision message from the steamship Olympic with the iceberg, more than 1,500 have reporting the sinking of the Titanic, only gone to their death in her shattered hulk, a portion of which had been made public while 675, most of whom are women and earlier in the evening, expressed the children, have been saved. opinion that the loss of life would reach Should these grim figures be verified, 1,800 persons. That despatch said in its the loss of the Titanic –costliest, most concluding sentence: “Loss likely total powerful, greatest of all the ocean fleet – 1,800 souls.” while speeding westward on her maiden It is hoped here that this is an error, voyage, will take rank in maritime history unless the Titanic had on board more as the most terrible of all recorded passengers than was reported. The list, disasters of the sea. as given out showed 1,310 passenger There is as yet no information as and crew of 860 or 2170 in all. The to those who are among the saved and 670 reported to have been saved and the greater number of the unfortunates to be bound for New York aboard the who must be numbered with the lost. Carpathia, of the Cunard line, the loss of The officers of the White Star Company life indicated would be 1,495 persons. themselves at the hour of going to press, The full text of the despatch received from had been able to learn no details of the the Olympic is as follows: horror that will carry grief into a thousand “Carpathia reached Titanic’s position American homes, some of them among at daybreak. Titanic sank about twenty the proudest in the metropolis. minutes past two o’clock in the morning in One point is known from which 41.16 north latitude 30.14 west longitude. may be derived a sad satisfaction. In a All her boats accounted for containing desperate situation where the salvation 675 souls saved, crew and passengers of all was not possible, the women and included. Nearly all saved women and children were cared for first. These were children. Leyland liner in Californian sent away in the first of the boats launched remained an searching exact position of from the sinking ship, the only boats disaster, loss likely 1,800 souls.” apparently which did not share the fate of the mammoth vessel. America and Britain are spared the horrors that attended the sinking of the French ship, La Bourgogne, in 1898, when the women and children were trampled underfoot and cut down with knives and the mad rush of the panic stricken crew for first places in the ship’s boats. Reproduced from original article The New York Herald, 16th April 1912 Frozen Kingdoms Downloaded by Wilson at Green Park Community Primary School on Develop_2/Titanic 29/12/20 Page 3 of 6 Copyright © 2020 Cornerstones Education Limited EXTRA Baltimore 1773 1912 American. EXTRA ESTABLISHED 1772-VOL CCXII BALTIMORE. TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1912 PRICE ONE CENT TITANIC SINKS WITH 1,200 MEN; 866 WOMEN AND CHILDREN SAVED Image from: Shutterstock editorial Shutterstock from: Image after a collision with an iceberg, still Largest ship in the world remain in doubt, and it is feared more strikes iceberg on first voyage than 1,200 persons were lost, a note of good cheer came from the ocean ways by wireless between 1 and 2 o’clock this ALL RESCUED ARE ON morning. It was in the shape of a wireless message BOARD LINER CARPATHIA from the White Star liner Olympic, one of the vessels hovering near the scene of the disaster, flashing the news that 866 of the Awful tragedy of the sea at night Titantic’s passengers, mostly women and in Midocean---Wireless brings aid, children, were being brought to port by but too late to save all---the crew the Cunarder Carpathia. Other messages later brought confirmatory tidings. stuck by the ship First reports were that the Carpathia had saved but 670 persons. The new While the fate of the majority of the figures reduced the list of those whose 2,100 persons on board the mammoth fate was felt by nearly 200, and if, as White Star line Titanic, which sank early seems possible, practically all those saved yesterday on the Newfoundland Banks were passengers, it would appear that Frozen Kingdoms Downloaded by Wilson at Green Park Community Primary School on Develop_2/Titanic 29/12/20 Page 4 of 6 Copyright © 2020 Cornerstones Education Limited all but approximately 450 of the vessel’s Early last night there was hope that any passengers are accounted for. A partial moment might bring word of cheer. But list of the survivors received from the anxiety deepened and many friends and Carpathia includes the names of many relatives of those who sailed on the Titanic women of prominence who were on the began to despair as hours after hours steamer. passed and the night grew old without After the first desperate calls of the word from either of the Allan liners, Titanic for help had been sent flying Parisian or Virginian, believed to be, with through space and brought steamers the exception of the Carpathia, the vessels for hundreds of miles around speeding nearest the Titanic’s oceans burial place to the scene, what seems to have been when she made her plunge.