The Titanic is a British steamship operated by the White Star Line, one of three Olympic-class twin ships. The largest passenger liner in the world at the time of its construction. During the first voyage on April 14, 1912, she collided with an iceberg and sank after 2 hours and 40 minutes. There were 1,316 passengers and 892 crew members on board, for a total of 2,208 people. Of these, 704 people survived, more than 1,500 died. The Titanic disaster became legendary and was one of the largest shipwrecks in history. Several feature films have been shot on its plot.
Statistics
Common data:
- Port of registry - Liverpool.
- Board number - 401.
- The call sign is MGY.
- Ship dimensions:
- Length - 259.83 meters.
- Width - 28.19 meters.
- Weight - 46328 tons.
- Displacement - 52310 tons.
- The height from the waterline to the boat deck is 19 meters.
- From the keel to the top of the pipe - 55 meters.
- Draft - 10.54 meters.
Technical data:
- Steam boilers - 29.
- Waterproof compartments - 16.
- Maximum speed - 23 knots.
Rescue equipment:
- Standard boats - 14 (65 places).
- Collapsible boats - 4 (47 seats).
Passengers:
- I class: 180 men and 145 women (including 6 children).
- II class: 179 men and 106 women (including 24 children).
- III class: 510 men and 196 women (including 79 children).
Team members:
- Officers - 8 people (including the captain).
- Deck crew - 66 people.
- Engine room - 325 people.
- Service staff - 494 people (including 23 women).
- In total, there were 2201 people on board.
officers
- Captain - Edward J. Smith
- Chief Officer – Henry F. Wild
- First Mate – William M. Murdoch
- Second Officer – Charles G. Lightoller
- Third Mate - Herbert J. Pitman
- Fourth Mate – Joseph G. Boxhall
- Fifth Mate – Harold P. Lowe
- 6th Mate – James P. Moody
It was laid down on March 31, 1909 at the shipyards of the Harland and Wolf shipbuilding company in Queens Island (Belfast, Northern Ireland), launched on May 31, 1911, and passed sea trials on April 2, 1912.
Specifications
height from the keel to the tops of the pipes - 53.3 m;
engine room - 29 boilers, 159 coal furnaces;
The unsinkability of the ship was ensured by 15 watertight bulkheads in the hold, creating 16 conditionally "watertight" compartments; the space between the bottom and the flooring of the second bottom was divided by transverse and longitudinal partitions into 46 watertight compartments.
Bulkheads
Watertight bulkheads, marked from bow to stern with the letters "A" to "P", rose from the second bottom and passed through 4 or 5 decks: the first two and the last five reached deck "D", eight bulkheads in the center of the liner reached only the deck "E". All bulkheads were so strong that they had to withstand significant pressure when getting a hole.
The Titanic was built to stay afloat if any two of its 16 watertight compartments, any three of the first five compartments, or all of the first four compartments were flooded.
The first two bulkheads in the bow and the last in the stern were solid, all the rest had sealed doors that allowed the crew and passengers to move between compartments. On the flooring of the second bottom, in the bulkhead "K", there were the only doors that led to the cooling chamber. On decks "F" and "E" in almost all bulkheads there were airtight doors connecting the rooms used by passengers, all of them could be battened down both remotely and manually, using a device located directly on the door and from the deck that reached bulkhead. To batten down such doors on the passenger decks, a special key was required, which was available only to the senior stewards. But on deck "G" there were no doors in the bulkheads.
In the bulkheads "D" - "O", directly above the second bottom in the compartments where the machines and boilers were located, there were 12 vertically closed doors, they were controlled by an electric drive from the navigation bridge. In case of danger or accident, or when the captain or the watch officer deemed it necessary, the electromagnets, on a signal from the bridge, released the latches and all 12 doors fell under the influence of their own gravity and the space behind them turned out to be hermetically closed. If the doors were closed by an electric signal from the bridge, then it was possible to open them only after removing the voltage from the electric drive.
In the ceiling of each compartment was a spare hatch, usually leading to the boat deck. Those who did not have time to leave the room before the doors closed could climb its iron ladder.
boats
In formal accordance with the current requirements of the British Merchant Shipping Code, the ship had 20 lifeboats, which were enough to board 1178 people, that is, for 50% of the people who were on board at that moment and 30% of the planned load. This was taken into account with the expectation of increasing the walking space on the deck of the passengers of the ship.
Decks
On the Titanic there were 8 steel decks located one above the other at a distance of 2.5-3.2 m. The uppermost one was a boat deck, under it there were seven others, indicated from top to bottom with letters from “A” to “G”. Only decks "C", "D", "E" and "F" stretched along the entire length of the vessel. The boat deck and the "A" deck did not reach either the bow or the stern, and the "G" deck was located only in the front of the liner - from the boiler rooms to the bow and in the aft - from the engine room to the stern cut. On the open boat deck there were 20 lifeboats, along the sides there were promenade decks.
Deck "A" with a length of 150 m was almost entirely intended for first-class passengers. B Deck was interrupted at the bow to form an open space above C Deck, and then continued as a 37-meter bow superstructure with anchor handling equipment and mooring arrangements. In front of deck "C" there were anchor winches for the two main side anchors, there was also a galley and a dining room for sailors and stokers. Behind the bow superstructure there was a promenade (the so-called inter-superstructure) deck for third-class passengers 15 m long. On deck “D” there was another, isolated, third-class promenade deck. Along the entire length of deck "E" were the cabins of passengers of the first and second classes, as well as the cabins of the stewards and mechanics. In the first part of deck "F" there were 64 cabins for passengers of the second class and the main living quarters for passengers of the third, stretching for 45 m and occupying the entire width of the liner.
There were two large salons, a dining room for third-class passengers, ship's laundries, a swimming pool and Turkish baths. Deck "G" captured only the bow and stern, between which the boiler rooms were located. The forward part of the deck, 58 m long, was 2 m above the waterline, gradually lowered towards the center of the liner and at the opposite end was already at the level of the waterline. There were 26 cabins for 106 third class passengers, the rest of the area was occupied by the luggage compartment for first class passengers, the ship's mail and the ball room. Behind the bow of the deck there were coal bunkers, which occupied 6 watertight compartments around the chimneys, followed by 2 compartments with steam pipes for reciprocating steam engines and a turbine compartment. This was followed by the aft part of the deck 64 m long with warehouses, pantries and 60 cabins for 186 third-class passengers, which was already below the waterline.
Masts
One was aft, the other was on the forecastle, each was steel with a teak top. On the front, at a height of 29 m from the waterline, there was a mars platform (“crow's nest”), which could be reached by an internal metal ladder.
Service premises
In front of the boat deck there was a navigation bridge, 58 m away from the bow. On the bridge there was a wheelhouse with a steering wheel and a compass, immediately behind it was a room where navigation charts were stored. To the right of the wheelhouse were the navigational cabin, the captain's cabin and part of the officers' cabins, to the left - the rest of the officers' cabins. Behind them, behind the front funnel, was the cabin of the radiotelegraph and the cabin of the radio operator. In front of deck "D" there were living quarters for 108 stokers, a special spiral ladder connected this deck directly to the boiler rooms, so that stokers could leave for work and return without passing by the cabins or saloons for passengers. In front of deck "E" there were living quarters for 72 loaders and 44 sailors. In the first part of the "F" deck there were quarters of 53 stokers of the third shift. Deck G contained quarters for 45 stokers and oilers.
Size comparison of the Titanic with the modern cruise ship Queen Mary 2, A-380 aircraft, bus, car and person
Second bottom
The second bottom was located about one and a half meters above the keel and occupied 9/10 of the ship's length, not capturing only small areas in the bow and stern. On the second day, boilers, reciprocating steam engines, a steam turbine and electric generators were installed, all firmly fixed on steel plates, the remaining space was used for cargo, coal and drinking water tanks. In the engine room section, the second bottom rose 2.1 m above the keel, which increased the protection of the liner in case of damage to the outer skin.
Power point
The registered power of steam engines and turbines was 50 thousand liters. With. (actually 55 thousand hp). The turbine was located in the fifth watertight compartment in the stern of the liner, in the next compartment, closer to the bow, steam engines were located, the other 6 compartments were occupied by twenty-four double-flow and five single-flow boilers that produced steam for the main machines, turbines, generators and auxiliary mechanisms. The diameter of each boiler was 4.79 m, the length of the double-flow boiler was 6.08 m, the single-flow boiler was 3.57 m. Each double-flow boiler had 6 fireboxes, and the single-flow boiler had 3. In addition, the Titanic was equipped with four auxiliary machines with generators, each with a capacity of 400 kilowatts, producing a current of 100 volts. Next to them were two more 30-kilowatt generators.
Pipes
The liner had 4 tubes. The diameter of each was 7.3 m, height - 18.5 m. The first three removed smoke from the boiler furnaces, the fourth, located above the turbine compartment, served as an exhaust fan, a chimney for ship kitchens was connected to it. A longitudinal section of the vessel is presented on its model exhibited at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, where it is clearly seen that the last pipe was not connected to the fireboxes. There is an opinion that when designing the vessel, the widespread opinion of the public was taken into account that the solidity and reliability of the vessel directly depends on the number of its pipes. It also follows from the literature that in the last moments of the ship leaving the water almost vertically, its fake pipe fell off its place and, falling into the water, killed a large number of passengers and crew members in the water.
Electrical supply
10,000 light bulbs, 562 electric heaters were connected to the distribution network, mainly in first-class cabins, 153 electric motors, including electric drives for eight cranes with a total capacity of 18 tons, 4 cargo winches with a capacity of 750 kg, 4 elevators, each for 12 people, and lots of phones. In addition, electricity was consumed by fans in the boiler and engine rooms, apparatus in the gym, dozens of machines and appliances in the kitchens, including refrigerators.
Connection
The telephone exchange serviced 50 lines. The radio equipment on the liner was the most modern, the power of the main transmitter was 5 kilowatts, the power came from an electric generator. The second, an emergency transmitter, was powered by batteries. 4 antennas were strung between the two masts, some up to 75 m high. The guaranteed range of the radio signal was 250 miles. During the day, under favorable conditions, communication was possible at a distance of up to 400 miles, and at night - up to 2000.
Radio equipment came on board on April 2 from Marconi, which by that time had monopolized the radio industry in Italy and England. Two young radio officer officers assembled and installed the station all day, for verification, a test connection was immediately made with the coast station at Malin Head, on the north coast of Ireland, and with Liverpool. On April 3, the radio equipment worked like clockwork, on this day a connection was established with the island of Tenerife at a distance of 2000 miles and with Port Said in Egypt (3000 miles). In January 1912, the Titanic was assigned radio call signs "MUC", then they were replaced by "MGY", previously owned by the American ship Yale. As the dominant radio company, Marconi introduced its own radio call signs, most of which began with the letter "M", regardless of its location and the country of residence of the vessel on which it was installed.
clash
The iceberg believed to have hit the Titanic
Recognizing an iceberg in a light haze, the forward looking Fleet warned “there is ice in front of us” and struck the bell three times, which meant an obstacle straight ahead, after which he rushed to the telephone connecting the “crow’s nest” with the bridge. Moody's sixth mate, who was on the bridge, responded almost immediately and heard a cry of "ice right ahead". With a polite thank you, Moody turned to the officer of the watch, Murdoch, and repeated the warning. He rushed to the telegraph, put his handle on "stop" and shouted "rudder right", at the same time transmitting the order "full back" to the engine room. According to the terminology of 1912, "rudder right" meant turning the ship's stern to the right, and the bow to the left. The steersman, Robert Hitchens, leaned on the handle of the steering wheel and quickly turned it counterclockwise to the stop, after which Murdoch was told "rudder to the right, sir." At that moment, Alfred Oliver, the helmsman of the watch, and Boxhall, who was in the chart house, came running to the bridge when the bells rang out in the "crow's nest". Murdoch pulled the lever, which included the closing of watertight doors in the bulkheads of the boiler rooms and the engine room, and immediately gave the order "left rudder!"
lifeboats
There were 2,208 people on board the Titanic, but the total capacity of the lifeboats was only 1,178 people. The reason was that, according to the rules then in force, the total capacity of lifeboats depended on the tonnage of the ship, and not on the number of passengers and crew members. The rules were drawn up in 1894, when the largest ships had a displacement of about 10,000 tons. The displacement of the Titanic was 46,328 tons.
But even these boats were only partially filled. Captain Smith gave the order or instruction "women and children first". The officers interpreted this order in different ways. Second mate Lightoller, who commanded the launching of the boats on the port side, allowed the men to take places in the boats only if rowers were needed and under no other circumstances. First mate Murdoch, who commanded the launch of the boats on the starboard side, allowed the men to go down if there were no women and children. So, in boat number 1, only 12 seats out of 40 were occupied. In addition, at first, many passengers did not want to take seats in boats, because the Titanic, which had no external damage, seemed safer to them. The last boats filled better, because it was already obvious to the passengers that the Titanic would sink. In the very last boat, 44 seats out of 47 were occupied. But in the sixteenth boat that left the side there were many empty seats, passengers of the 1st class were saved in it.
As a result of the analysis of the operation to rescue people from the Titanic, it is concluded that with adequate actions by the team of victims, there would have been at least 553 fewer people. The reason for the low survival rate of passengers on the ship is the installation given by the captain to save, first of all, women and children, and not all passengers; the interest of the crew in this order of boarding the boats. By preventing male passengers from accessing the boats, the men from the crew got the opportunity to take places in the half-empty boats themselves, covering their interests with the “noble motives” of caring for women and children. In the event that all passengers, men and women, took their places in the boats, the men from the crew would not get into them and their chances of salvation would be equal to zero, and the crew could not help but understand this. The men from the crew occupied part of the seats in almost all boats during the evacuation from the ship, on average 10 people from the crew per 1 boat. 24% of the crew were saved, about the same as 3rd class passengers were saved (25%). The team had no reason to consider their duty fulfilled - most of the passengers remained on the ship without hope of salvation, even the order was not fulfilled to save women and children in the first place (several dozen children, and more than a hundred women did not get into the boats).
The report of the British Commission on the results of the investigation into the circumstances of the sinking of the Titanic states that "if the boats had been delayed a little longer before launching, or if the doors of the passage had been opened for passengers, more of them could have got on the boats." The reason for the low survival rate of class 3 passengers with a high degree of probability can be considered obstacles placed by the crew for the passage of passengers to the deck, closing the doors of the passage. Comparison of the results of the evacuation from the Titanic with the results of the evacuation from the Lusitania (1915) shows that the evacuation operation on ships like the Titanic and the Lusitania can be organized without a disproportion in the percentage of survivors depending on the sex or class of passengers.
People in boats, as a rule, did not save those who were in the water. On the contrary, they tried to sail as far as possible from the wreck, fearing that those in the water would capsize their boats or be sucked into the funnel from a sinking ship. Only 6 people were picked up alive from the water.
| Category | Percentage rescued | Percentage of dead | Number of rescued | Number of dead | How much was |
| Children, first grade | 100.0 | 00.0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Children, second grade | 100.0 | 00.0 | 24 | 0 | 24 |
| Women, first class | 97.22 | 02.78 | 140 | 4 | 144 |
| Women, crew | 86.96 | 13.04 | 20 | 3 | 23 |
| Women, second class | 86.02 | 13.98 | 80 | 13 | 93 |
| Women third grade | 46.06 | 53.94 | 76 | 89 | 165 |
| Children, third grade | 34.18 | 65.82 | 27 | 52 | 79 |
| Men, first class | 32.57 | 67.43 | 57 | 118 | 175 |
| men, crew | 21.69 | 78.31 | 192 | 693 | 885 |
| Men, third grade | 16.23 | 83.77 | 75 | 387 | 462 |
| Men, second class | 8.33 | 91.67 | 14 | 154 | 168 |
| Total | 31.97 | 68.03 | 711 | 1513 | 2224 |
The path of the Titanic and the place of its crash.
Chronology
The path of the Titanic and the place of its crash.
April 10, 1912
- 12:00 - "Titanic" departs from the quay wall of the Southampton port and narrowly avoids a collision with the American liner "New York".
-19:00 stop in Cherbourg (France) to pick up passengers and mail.
-21:00 - The Titanic left Cherbourg and headed for Queenstown (Ireland).
April 11, 1912
-12:30 - stop in Queenstown to pick up passengers and mail; one member of the crew deserts from the Titanic.
-14:00 - The Titanic departs Queenstown with 1,316 passengers and 891 crew members on board.
April 14, 1912
-09:00 - "Caronia" reports ice in the region of 42 ° north latitude, 49-51 ° west longitude.
-13:42 - "Baltik" reports the presence of ice in the area of 41°51' north latitude, 49°52' west longitude.
-13:45 - "America" reports ice in the region of 41°27'N, 50°8'W.
-19:00 - air temperature 43 ° Fahrenheit (6 ° C).
-19:30 - air temperature 39 ° Fahrenheit (3.9 ° C).
-19:30 - Californian reports ice at 42°3'N, 49°9'W.
-21:00 - air temperature 33 ° Fahrenheit (0.6 ° C).
-21:30 - the second officer Lightoller warns the ship's carpenter and watchmen in the engine room that it is necessary to monitor the fresh water system - the water in the pipelines may freeze; he tells the lookout to watch the appearance of ice.
-21:40 - "Mesaba" reports ice in the region of 42°-41°25' north latitude, 49°-50°30' west longitude.
-22:00 - Air temperature 32° Fahrenheit (0 °C).
-22:30 - the sea water temperature dropped to 31 ° Fahrenheit (-0.56 ° C).
-23:00 - The Californian warns of the presence of ice, but the Titanic's radio operator cuts off the radio traffic before the Californian manages to report the coordinates of the area.
-23:40 - At a point with coordinates 41 ° 46' north latitude, 50 ° 14' west longitude (later it turned out that these coordinates were calculated incorrectly), an iceberg was noticed at a distance of about 450 meters straight ahead. Despite the maneuver, after 39 seconds, the underwater part of the ship touched, and the ship's hull received numerous small holes for a length of about 100 meters. Of the 16 watertight compartments of the vessel, 6 were cut through (in the sixth, the leak was extremely insignificant).
April 15, 1912
-00:05 - an order was given to uncover the lifeboats and convene crew members and passengers to the muster points.
-00:15 - the first radiotelegraph signal for help was transmitted from the Titanic.
-00:45 - the first flare was fired, and the first lifeboat (No. 7) was launched.
-01:15 - Class 3 passengers are allowed on deck.
-01:40 - the last flare was fired.
-02:05 - the last lifeboat is launched.
-02:10 - the last radiotelegraph signals were transmitted.
-02:17 - Electric lighting goes out.
-02:18 - "Titanic" breaks into three parts
-02:20 - Titanic sank.
-03:30 - flares fired from the Carpathia are noticed in lifeboats.
-04:10 - "Carpathia" picked up the first lifeboat from the "Titanic" (boat number 2).
Lifeboat "Titanic", filmed by one of the passengers of the "Carpathia"
-08:30 - Carpathia picked up the last (No. 12) lifeboat from the Titanic.
-08:50 - Carpathia, taking on board 704 people who escaped from the Titanic, heads for New York.
Incredible Facts
The sinking of the Titanic is one of the major tragedies of the 20th century.
This is a terrible event ruzheno many myths, conjectures and rumors.
But few people know what happened to the passengers of the fateful flight, who managed to survive the worst maritime disaster of the century.
The following selection of documentary photos will give a complete picture of what happened next with those who managed to escape from the sinking ship.
Passengers of the Titanic photo
Frederick Fleet
In this photo, 24-year-old British sailor Frederick Fleet a few days after the sinking of the Titanic. The guy was the first to spot the iceberg.
He took part in two world wars. In 1965, after a protracted depression, Fleet took his own life.
As for the events on the Titanic, the events developed approximately as follows:
On April 10, 1912, the ship set out on its first and last voyage. The huge liner raced at full speed from Southampton to New York.
On April 14, 1912, at 11:39 p.m., Friedrich Fleet spotted an iceberg right on the course, which eventually destroyed the Titanic.
After two hours and 40 minutes, faced with a huge boulder, he went to the bottom.
Of the 2224 people on board the "unsinkable" ship, only about 700 people fit into lifeboats, thanks to which they survived.
The remaining 1,500 died by being left on the sinking ship or died within minutes of falling into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Shortly before dawn on April 15, the flotilla of survivors was spotted by the steamer Carpathia, which arrived at the site of the sinking of the Titanic. By 9 am, all the surviving passengers were on board the Carpathia.
Photo of the iceberg Titanic
Iceberg that sank the Titanic.
The surviving passengers of the Titanic in boats swim up to the ship Carpathia, April 15, 1912.
All the same surviving passengers after a shipwreck in boats.
Sketch of the sinking Titanic.
A sketch of a sinking ship, drawn by passenger survivor John B. Thayer. Some time later, the drawings were supplemented by Mr. P.L. Skidmore (P.L. Skidmore) is already on board the ship "Carpathia", April 1912.
The surviving passengers of the Titanic are trying to keep warm on board the ship "Carpathia".
When Carpathia made her way to New York, it was decided to send out radio messages. So the news of the ongoing tragedy spread quite quickly.
People were in shock, the relatives of the passengers were in a panic. In search of information about their loved ones, they attacked the offices of the White Star Line shipping company in New York, as well as in Southampton.
Some of the wealthy and famous surviving passengers and victims were identified prior to the Carpathia's arrival at the port.
But relatives and friends of passengers of a lower class, as well as the families of crew members, continued to remain in the dark about the fate of their relatives.
The lack of connections did not allow them to get the news immediately and they had to wait in painful uncertainty.
The Carpathia arrived in New York Harbor on a rainy evening on 18 April. The ship was surrounded by more than 50 tugboats carrying journalists. They shouted, called out to the survivors, offering money for first-hand interviews.
A reporter from one of the major American publications, who at that time was on board the Carpathia, had already managed to interview the survivors. He placed his notes in a floating cigar box and tossed them into the water so the publisher's editor could fish for the message and get the scoop first.
After all lifeboats were launched at Pier 59, owned by the White Star Line. The ship itself docked at Pier 54. In the pouring rain, the ship was greeted by an alarmed crowd of 40,000 people.
People wait for news outside the White Star Line shipping company's office in New York.
Lifeboats, thanks to which several hundred people survived.
Lifeboats at the pier of the White Star Line shipping company in New York, April 1912.
People waiting for Carpathia to arrive in New York.
Huge crowds of relatives and friends stand in the rain, waiting for the arrival of the steamer "Carpathia" in New York, April 18, 1912.
About 40 thousand people are waiting for Carpathia.
Those who managed to survive the fateful voyage on the Titanic in New York were met at the port by family and friends, as well as numerous media representatives.
Someone mourned the dead, someone wanted an autograph, and someone tried to interview the survivors.
The next day, the US Senate called a special hearing on the disaster at the old Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
The entire crew of the Titanic consisted of 885 people, of which 724 people were from Southampton. At least 549 people did not return home from the fatal flight.
Surviving crew members.
Surviving crew from left to right first row: Ernest Archer, Friedrich Fleet, Walter Perkis, George Simons and Frederic Klachen.
Second row: Arthur Bright, George Hogg, John Moore, Frank Osman and Henry Etsch.
People surrounded the Titanic survivor.
A crowd of people in the port of Devonport surrounded a man who survived from the Titanic to hear firsthand how it really happened.
Payment of compensation to victims.
April 1912
J. Hanson, seated right, District Secretary of the National Union of Sailors and Firefighters. The people around him are the survivors of the Titanic, who are receiving compensation as victims of the disaster.
Relatives waiting for the survivors of the Titanic.
People wait on the Southampton railway platform for their loved ones who survived the sinking of the Titanic.
Relatives in Southampton meet their loved ones.
Relatives waiting for the surviving crew members.
Relatives are waiting for the surviving members of the Titanic crew to disembark in Southampton.
People are returning to their homes in England. The disaster claimed the lives of 549 crew members. In total, there were 724 of those from Southampton who worked on the ship, ranging from a sailor to a cook or postman.
Relatives a few minutes before meeting with surviving relatives.
Survivors on the Titanic
Relatives greet shipwrecked relatives who have arrived in Southampton.
A surviving crew member kisses his wife, who was waiting for him on land in Plymouth, April 29, 1912.
Stewards giving evidence after a shipwreck.
The surviving stewards stand outside the courthouse. They are invited to testify to the commission investigating the Titanic disaster.
The surviving passenger of "Titanic" Signs autographs to passers-by.
People who survived on the Titanic
25. The Pasco brothers, members of the crew of the ill-fated ship, were lucky enough to survive all four.
Orphans of the Titanic
April 1912
The miraculously saved two babies could not be identified at first.
The children were later identified as Michel (age 4) and Edmond (age 2) Navratil. To get on the ship, their father took the name Louis Hoffman and used the fictitious names Lolo and Mamon for the children.
The father, with whom the children sailed to New York, died, as a result of which difficulties arose with the real names of the brothers.
However, later they, nevertheless, were able to identify and the kids were safely reunited with their mother.
In this photo, Edmond and Michel Navratil, who have already grown up, are with their mother.
Cameraman Harold Thomas Coffin being interrogated by a Senate committee at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, May 29, 1912.
29. Child of the Titanic
A nurse holds the newborn Lucien P. Smith. His mother Eloise was pregnant with him when she returned with her husband from their honeymoon aboard the Titanic.
The baby's father died in the crash.
Eloise subsequently married another survivor of the dreaded flight, Robert P. Daniel.
And finally, a photograph of the Titanic itself on the day it left on its first and last fateful voyage...
Titanic is a ship that challenged higher powers. A marvel of shipbuilding and the largest ship of its time. The builders and owners of this giant passenger fleet arrogantly declared: "The Lord God himself will not be able to sink this ship." However, the launched ship went on its maiden voyage and did not return. It was one of the largest disasters, forever included in the history of navigation. In this topic, I will talk about the most key points related to the Titanic. The topic consists of two parts, the first part is the history of the Titanic before the tragedy, where I will talk about how the ship was built and went on its fatal voyage. In the second part, we will visit the bottom of the ocean, where the remains of the drowned giant lie.
First, I will briefly talk about the history of the construction of the Titanic. There are a lot of interesting photos of the ship, which captures the construction process, the mechanisms and units of the Titanic, and so on. And then the story will go about the tragic circumstances that were destined to happen on this fateful day for the Titanic. As always happens with major disasters, the tragedy of the Titanic was due to a series of errors that coincided on the same day. Each of these errors individually would not have entailed anything serious, but all together turned into death for the ship.
Titanic It was laid down on March 31, 1909 at the shipyards of the Harland and Wolf shipbuilding company in Belfast, Northern Ireland, launched on May 31, 1911, and passed sea trials on April 2, 1912. The unsinkability of the ship was ensured by 15 watertight bulkheads in the hold, creating 16 conditionally watertight compartments; the space between the bottom and the flooring of the second bottom was divided by transverse and longitudinal partitions into 46 watertight compartments. In the first photo - the slipway of the Titanic, construction is just beginning. 
The photo shows the laying of the keel of the Titanic 
In this photo, the Titanic is on the slipway next to Olympic, the twin brother
And these are the huge steam engines of the Titanic 
giant crankshaft 
This photo shows the turbine rotor of the Titanic. The huge dimensions of the rotor stand out against the background of working 
Titanic propeller shaft 
Solemn photo - the body of the Titanic is completely assembled 
The launching process begins. The Titanic is slowly sinking its hull into the water. 
The giant ship almost left the stocks 
Titanic launch successful 
And now the Titanic is ready, the morning before the first official launch in Belfast 
The Titanic was officially launched and transported to England. In the photo, a ship in the port of Southampton before her fateful voyage. Few people know, but 8 workers died during the construction of the Titanic. This information is available in a selection of interesting facts about the Titanic. 
And this is the last photo of the Titanic taken from the shore in Ireland 
The first days of the journey were successful for the ship, nothing foreshadowed trouble, the ocean was completely calm. On the night of April 14, the sea remained calm, but icebergs were visible in some places in the navigation area. They did not embarrass Captain Smith ... At 11:40 pm, a cry was suddenly heard from the observation post on the mast: "Directly on the course of the iceberg!" ... Everyone knows about the further events that took place on the ship. The “unsinkable” Titanic failed to resist the water element and went to the bottom. As already mentioned, many factors turned against the Titanic that day. It was a fatal bad luck that destroyed the giant ship and more than 1500 people. 
The official conclusion of the commission investigating the causes of the sinking of the Titanic read: the steel used to sheath the Titanic's hull was of poor quality, with a large admixture of sulfur, which made it very brittle at low temperatures. If the skin had been made of high quality, low sulfur, tough steel, it would have softened the force of impact to a great extent. The metal sheets would have simply bent inward and the damage to the hull would not have been so serious. Perhaps then the Titanic would have been saved, or at least kept afloat for a long time. However, for those times this steel was considered the best, there was simply no other. This was only the final conclusion, in fact, there were a number of other factors that did not allow avoiding a collision with an iceberg 
In order, we list all the factors that influenced the death of the Titanic. The absence of any of these factors could have saved the ship...
First of all, it is worth noting the work of Titanic radio operators: the main task of telegraph operators was to serve especially wealthy passengers - it is known that in just 36 hours of work, radio operators transmitted more than 250 telegrams. Payment for telegraph services was made on the spot, in the radio room, and at that time it was not very small, and the tip flowed like a river. Radio operators were constantly busy sending telegrams, and although they received several reports of drifting ice, they were not paid attention to. 
Some criticize the lookout's lack of binoculars. The reason for this lies in the tiny key to the box with binoculars. A tiny key that opened the cabinet where the binoculars were stored could have saved the Titanic and the lives of 1,522 dead passengers. This should have happened if not for the fatal mistake of a certain David Blair. Blair, the key keeper, was transferred from his service on the "unsinkable" liner just a few days before the ill-fated voyage, but he forgot to hand over the key to the binoculars locker to the worker who replaced him. That is why the sailors on duty on the observation tower of the liner had to rely solely on their own eyes. They saw the iceberg too late. One of the crew members on duty that fateful night later said that if they had binoculars, they would have seen the ice block earlier (even if pitch darkness reigned) and the Titanic would have had time to change course.
Despite warnings about icebergs, the captain of the Titanic did not slow down or change the route, so confident was he in the unsinkability of the ship. The speed of the steamer was too high, due to which the impact of the iceberg on the hull was of maximum force. If the captain had ordered in advance, when entering the iceberg belt, to reduce the speed of the ship, then the force of impact on the iceberg would not have been enough to break through the hull of the Titanic. The captain also did not make sure that all the boats were filled with people. As a result, a much smaller number of people were saved. 
The iceberg belonged to a rare type of so-called. "black icebergs" (turned over so that their dark underwater part hits the surface), because of which it was noticed too late. The night was windless and moonless, otherwise lookouts would have noticed the lambs around the iceberg. Pictured is the same iceberg that caused the sinking of the Titanic. 
The ship did not have red rescue rockets signaling distress. Confidence in the power of the ship was so high that it never occurred to anyone to supply the Titanic with these missiles. And everything could have worked out differently. Less than half an hour after meeting with the iceberg, the assistant captain shouted:
Lights to port, sir! The ship is five or six miles from us! Boxhall saw clearly through his binoculars that it was a single-tube steamer. He tried to contact him with a signal lamp, but the unknown vessel did not answer. “Apparently, there is no radiotelegraph on the ship, they could not see us,” Captain Smith decided, and ordered the helmsman Rowe to signal with emergency rockets. When the signalman opened the box of rockets, both Boxhall and Roe were dumbfounded: the box contained ordinary white rockets, not emergency red ones. “Sir,” Boxhall exclaimed in disbelief, “there are only white rockets here!” - Can't be! said Captain Smith in astonishment. But, making sure that Boxhall was right, he ordered: - Shoot the whites. Maybe they'll guess we're in trouble. But no one guessed, everyone thought it was a fireworks display on the Titanic 
The California cargo-and-passenger steamer, on a London-Boston flight, missed the Titanic on the evening of April 14, and an hour later it was covered with ice and lost speed. His radio operator Evans contacted the Titanic at about 11 p.m. and wanted to warn about the difficult ice conditions and that they were covered with ice, but the Titanic's radio operator Philippe, who had just barely established contact with Cape Race, rudely cut him off: - Leave me alone! I'm busy working with Cape Reis! And Evans "lagged behind": there was no second radio operator on the "California", the day was difficult and Evans officially closed the radio watch at 23:30, having previously reported this to the captain. As a result, all the blame for the biased investigation into the sinking of the Titanic fell on the captain of the California, Stanley Lord, who until his death proved his innocence. He was acquitted only posthumously, after Hendrik Ness, the captain of the ship Samson, testified ... 
On the map is the place where the Titanic sank
So, the night of April 14-15, 1912. Atlantic. Board of the fishing vessel "Samson". "Samson" returns from a successful fishing trip, having avoided encounters with US ships. On board are several hundred slaughtered seals. The tired crew rested. The watch was carried by the captain himself and his first assistant. Captain Ness was in good standing with his masters. The voyages of his steamer were always successful and brought a good profit. Hendrik Ness was known as an experienced and risky captain, not too scrupulous in violating territorial waters or in exceeding the number of prey animals. The Samson often found itself in alien or forbidden waters, and was well known to the ships of the US Coast Guard, with which he successfully avoided close acquaintance. In a word, Hendrik Ness was an excellent navigator and a gambling, successful businessman. Here are the words of Nessus, from which the whole picture of what is happening becomes clear:
“The night was amazing, starry, clear, the ocean is calm and gentle,” said Ness. - My assistant and I chatted, smoked, sometimes I went out of the cabin to the bridge, but I didn’t stay there for a long time - the air was right chilling. Suddenly, accidentally turning around, I saw two unusually bright stars in the southern part of the horizon. They surprised me with their brilliance and size. Shouting to the officer on duty to give a spyglass, I pointed it at these stars and immediately realized that these were the top lights of a large vessel. "Captain, I think it's a Coast Guard ship," the aide said. But I have thought about it myself. There was no time to estimate on the map, but we both decided that we had climbed into the territorial waters of the United States. Meeting with their ships did not bode well for us. A few minutes later, a white rocket took off over the horizon, and we realized that we had been discovered and were required to stop. I still hoped that everything would work out and we could escape. But soon another rocket took off, after some time a third ... Things turned out badly: if we had been searched, I would have lost not only all the booty, but also, possibly, lost the ship, and we would all have ended up in prison. I decided to leave.
He ordered to turn off all the lights and give full speed. For some reason they didn't follow us. After some time, the border ship disappeared altogether. (That is why the Titanic witnesses claimed to have clearly seen a large steamer in the distance that had left them. The ill-fated California was at that time jammed with ice and was not visible from the Titanic at all.) I ordered to change course to the north, we went at full speed and only in the morning slowed down. On the twenty-fifth of April we anchored off Reykjavik in Iceland, and only then, from the newspapers delivered by the Norwegian consul, did we learn of the tragedy of the Titanic.
During a conversation with the consul, it was as if they hit me on the head: I thought - weren't we then at the crash site? As soon as the consul left our board, I immediately rushed into the cabin and, looking through the newspapers and my notes, realized that the dying people did not see the California, but us. So, it was us who called for help with rockets. But they were white, not red, emergency. Who would have thought that people were dying right next to us, and we were leaving them at full speed on our reliable and large "Samson", which had both boats and boats on board! And the sea was like a pond, quiet, calm… We could have saved them all! Everyone! Hundreds of people died there, and we saved the smelly seal skins! But who could know about it? We didn't have a radiotelegraph. On the way to Norway, I explained to the crew what had happened to us, and warned that all of us had only one thing to do - keep quiet! If they find out the truth, we will become worse than lepers: everyone will shy away from us, we will be kicked out of the fleet, no one will want to serve with us on the same ship, no one will give us a hand or a crust of bread. And none of the team took any oath.
Hendrik Ness spoke about the incident only 50 years later, before his death. Nevertheless, no one can be directly blamed for the sinking of the Titanic. If the rockets were red, he would certainly rush to the rescue. In the end, no one was able to help. Only the steamer "Carpathia", developing an unprecedented speed for her of 17 knots, rushed to the aid of dying people. Captain Arthur X. Roston ordered the preparation of beds, spare clothing, food, accommodation for the rescued. At 2 hours 45 minutes of the Carpathia, icebergs and their fragments, large ice fields began to meet. Despite the danger of collision, the Carpathia did not slow down. At 3:50 a.m. on the Carpathia they saw the first lifeboat from the Titanic, at 4:10 a.m. they began to rescue people, and by 8:30 a.m. the last living person was picked up. In total, "Carpathia" saved 705 people. And the Carpathia delivered all the rescued to New York. Pictured is a boat from the Titanic
Now let's move on to the second part of the story. Here you will see the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean in the form in which it remained after the tragedy. For seventy-three years the ship lay in its deep underwater grave as one of the countless testimonies of human carelessness. The word "Titanic" has become synonymous with doomed adventures, heroism, cowardice, upheaval and adventure. Societies and associations of surviving passengers were formed. Entrepreneurs involved in the recovery of sunken ships dreamed of lifting a superliner with all its countless riches. In 1985, a team of divers led by American oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard found it, and the world learned that under the enormous pressure of the water column, the giant ship broke into three parts. The wreckage of the Titanic was scattered over an area with a radius of 1600 meters. Ballard found the bow of the ship, deeply embedded in the ground under its own weight. Eight hundred meters from her lay the stern. Nearby were the ruins of the middle part of the building. Among the wreckage of the ship, a variety of objects of material culture of that distant time were lying all over the bottom: a set of copper kitchen utensils, wine bottles with corks, coffee cups with the emblem of the White Star shipping line, toiletries, doorknobs, candelabra, stoves and ceramic heads dolls played with by little children... One of the most stunning underwater images captured by Dr. Ballard's movie camera was a broken davit hanging limply from the side of the ship - a silent witness to a tragic night that will forever remain on the list of world catastrophes. The photo shows the wreck of the Titanic, the picture was taken by the Mir submersible 
Over the past 19 years, the hull of the Titanic has undergone serious destruction, the reason for which was not sea water at all, but souvenir hunters who are gradually stealing the remains of the liner. So, for example, the ship's bell or mast lighthouse disappeared from the ship. In addition to direct looting, damage to the ship is caused by time and the action of bacteria, leaving behind only rusty ruins.
In this photo we see the propeller of the Titanic 
Huge ship anchor 
One of the Titanic's piston engines 
Preserved under water cup from the Titanic 
Here is the same hole formed after the meeting with the iceberg. Perhaps, in addition to weak steel, the rivets between the sheets of metal could not stand it, and water poured into the 4 compartments of the Titanic, leaving no chance of salvation. There was no point in pumping water, it was equivalent to pumping water from ocean to ocean. The Titanic sank to the bottom, where it rests to this day. There is talk of bringing the Titanic to the surface to make it a museum, while various souvenir enthusiasts continue to tear the ship apart. How many more secrets does the Titanic hold? It is unlikely that anyone will give an answer to this question in the near future .. 
The legendary maiden voyage of the Titanic was supposed to be the main gala event of 1912, but instead it became the most tragic in history. An absurd collision with an iceberg, an unorganized evacuation of people, almost one and a half thousand dead - this was the only voyage of the liner.
The history of the creation of the ship
Banal rivalry served as an incentive to start building the Titanic. The idea of creating a liner better than that of a competitor company came up with the owner of the British shipping company White Star Line, Bruce Ismay. This happened after their main rival, the Cunard Line, set sail in 1906, their largest ship at that time, called the Lusitania.
The construction of the liner began in 1909. About three thousand specialists worked on its creation, more than seven million dollars were spent. The last work was completed in 1911, and at the same time the long-awaited descent of the liner into the water took place.
Many people, both rich and poor, sought to get the coveted ticket for this flight, but no one suspected that just a few days after the departure, the world community would discuss only one thing - how many people died on the Titanic.
Despite the fact that the White Star Line managed to outdo the competitor in shipbuilding, the subsequent sinking of the Titanic dealt a severe blow to the company's reputation. In 1934, it was completely absorbed by the Cunard Line company.
The first voyage of the "unsinkable"
The solemn departure of the luxurious ship was the most anticipated event of 1912. It was very difficult to get tickets, and they were sold out long before the scheduled flight. But as it turned out later, those who exchanged or resold their tickets were very lucky, and they did not regret that they were not on the ship when they found out how many people died on the Titanic.
The first and last flight of the largest liner of the White Star Line was scheduled for April 10, 1912. The ship's departure took place at 12 o'clock local time, and already 4 days later, on April 14, 1912, a tragedy occurred - an ill-fated collision with an iceberg.
Tragic foresight of the sinking of the Titanic
A fictional story about a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean, which later turned out to be prophetic, was written by British journalist William Thomas Stead in 1886. With his publication, the author wanted to draw public attention to the need to revise the rules of navigation, namely, he demanded that the number of seats in ship's boats correspond to the number of passengers.
A few years later, Stead returned to a similar theme in a new story about a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean, which occurred as a result of a collision with an iceberg. The death of people on the liner occurred due to the lack of the required number of boats.
This work of the author turned out to be prophetic. A major shipwreck occurred exactly 20 years after it was written. The journalist himself, who was on the Titanic at that moment, could not be saved.
How many people died on the Titanic: the composition of the drowned and the survivors
More than 100 years have passed since the most discussed shipwreck of the 20th century, but each time during the regular trials, new circumstances of the tragedy are clarified and updated lists of those who died and survived as a result of the shipwreck appear.
This table gives us comprehensive information. The ratio of how many women and children died on the Titanic speaks most of all about the disorganization of the evacuation. The percentage of surviving representatives of the weaker sex exceeds even the number of surviving children. As a result of the shipwreck, 80% of the men died, most of them simply did not have enough space in the lifeboats. A high percentage of deaths among children. These were mostly members of the lower class who failed to get on deck in time for evacuation.
How were people saved from high society? Class discrimination on the Titanic
As soon as it became clear that the ship did not have long to stay on the water, the captain of the Titanic, Edward John Smith, gave the order to put women and children in lifeboats. At the same time, access to the deck for third-class passengers was limited. Thus, the advantage in salvation was given to representatives of high society.
A large number of dead people has become the reason that for 100 years investigations and litigation have not stopped. All experts note that there was discrimination on board during the evacuation based on gender and class. At the same time, the number of surviving crew members was greater than the representatives of the III class. Instead of helping the passengers into the boats, they were the first to escape.
How was the evacuation of people from the Titanic?
Properly unorganized evacuation of people is still considered the main cause of mass deaths. The fact of how many people died during the crash of the Titanic indicates the complete absence of any control over this process. The 20 lifeboats could accommodate at least 1,178 people. But at the beginning of the evacuation, they were launched into the water half-filled, and not only by women and children, but also by whole families, and even with tame dogs. As a result, the occupancy of the boats was only 60%.
The total number of passengers on the ship, excluding crew members, was 1316 people, that is, the captain had the opportunity to save 90% of the passengers. Class III men were able to get on deck only towards the end of the evacuation, and therefore even more crew members were saved in the end. Numerous clarifications of the causes and facts of the shipwreck confirm that the responsibility for how many people died on the Titanic rests entirely with the captain of the liner.
Memoirs of eyewitnesses of the tragedy
All those who pulled out a lucky ticket from a sinking ship to a lifeboat received unforgettable impressions from the first and last voyage of the Titanic. The facts, the number of dead, the causes of the disaster were obtained thanks to their testimony. The memoirs of some of the surviving passengers were published and will forever remain in history.
In 2009, Millvina Dean, the last woman survivor of the Titanic, passed away. At the time of the shipwreck, she was only two and a half months old. Her father died on a sinking liner, and her mother and brother escaped with her. And although the memory of that terrible night was not preserved in the memory of the woman, the catastrophe made such a deep impression on her that she forever refused to visit the shipwreck site and never watched feature films and documentaries about the Titanic.
In 2006, at an English auction, where about 300 exhibits from the Titanic were presented, the memoirs of Ellen Churchill Candy, who was one of the passengers on the ill-fated flight, were sold for 47 thousand pounds.
The published memoirs of another Englishwoman, Elizabeth Shuts, helped in compiling a real picture of the catastrophe. She was the governess of one of the first class passengers. In her memoirs, Elizabeth indicated that the lifeboat she was evacuated to had only 36 people, only half of the total available seats.
Indirect causes of the shipwreck
In all sources of information about the Titanic, the main cause of its death is a collision with an iceberg. But as it turned out later, this event was accompanied by several indirect circumstances.
In the course of studying the causes of the disaster, part of the ship's skin was raised to the surface from the bottom of the ocean. A piece of steel was tested, and scientists proved that the metal from which the hull of the liner was made was of poor quality. This was another reason for the crash and the reason for how many people died on the Titanic.
The ideally smooth surface of the water prevented the discovery of the iceberg in time. Even a slight wind would have been enough for the waves breaking on the ice to make it possible to detect it before the collision occurred.
The unsatisfactory work of the radio operators, who did not inform the captain in time about the ice drifting in the ocean, the too high speed of movement, which did not allow the ship to quickly change course - all these reasons together led to the tragic events on the Titanic.
The sinking of the Titanic is the worst shipwreck of the 20th century.
A fairy tale that turned into pain and horror - this is how you can characterize the first and last voyage of the Titanic liner. The true story of the disaster, even after a hundred years, is the subject of controversy and investigation. The death of nearly 1,500 people with empty lifeboats is still unexplained. Every year more and more new causes of the shipwreck are named, but none of them is able to return the lost human lives.
SHIP DESCRIPTION: The Titanic is a British transatlantic steamer, the second Olympic-class liner. Built in Belfast at the shipyard "Harland and Wolf" from 1909 to 1912 by order of the shipping company "White Star Line". At the time of commissioning, it was the largest ship in the world. On the night of April 14-15, 1912, during the first flight, it crashed in the North Atlantic, colliding with an iceberg. The Titanic was equipped with two four-cylinder steam engines and a steam turbine. The entire power plant had a capacity of 55,000 liters. With. The ship could reach speeds of up to 23 knots (42 km/h). Its displacement, which exceeded the twin steamer Olympic by 243 tons, was 52,310 tons. The ship's hull was made of steel. The hold and lower decks were divided into 16 compartments by bulkheads with sealed doors. If the bottom was damaged, the double bottom prevented water from entering the compartments. Shipbuilder magazine called the Titanic virtually unsinkable, a statement widely circulated in the press and among the public. In accordance with outdated regulations, the Titanic was equipped with 20 lifeboats, with a total capacity of 1,178 people, which was only a third of the ship's maximum load. The cabins and public areas of the Titanic were divided into three classes. First class passengers were offered a swimming pool, a squash court, an A la carte restaurant, two cafes, and a gym. All classes had dining and smoking lounges, open and closed promenades. The most luxurious and refined were the first-class interiors, made in various artistic styles using expensive materials such as mahogany, gilding, stained glass, silk and others. Cabins and salons of the third class were decorated as simply as possible: steel walls were painted white or sheathed with wooden panels.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DISASTER: On April 10, 1912, the Titanic left Southampton on her first and only voyage. Having made stops in French Cherbourg and Irish Queenstown, the ship entered the Atlantic Ocean with 1,317 passengers and 908 crew members on board. Captain Edward Smith commanded the ship. On April 14, the Titanic radio station received seven ice warnings, but the liner continued to move almost at top speed. To avoid meeting with floating ice, the captain ordered to go a little south of the usual route. At 23:39 on April 14, the lookout reported to the captain's bridge about the iceberg directly ahead. Less than a minute later there was a collision. Having received several holes, the ship began to sink. First of all, women and children were put on the boats. At 2:20 am on April 15, the Titanic sank, breaking in two, killing 1,496 people. 712 survivors were picked up by the steamer "Carpathia".
SEARCH FOR WRECKAGE: The wreckage of the Titanic lies at a depth of 3,750 m. It was first discovered by the Robert Ballard expedition in 1985. Subsequent expeditions recovered thousands of artifacts from the bottom. The bow and stern parts have sunk deep into the bottom silt and are in a deplorable state; it is not possible to bring them to the surface intact.
WHERE THE TITANIC sank: This question received a lot of answers from Internet users. Here are some of them:
1. For a long time, the exact coordinates of the location of the wreckage of the Titanic were classified and only inaccurate coordinates from the SOS of the Titanic were mentioned - "41 degrees 46 minutes N and 50 degrees 14 minutes W", but after UNESCO recognized the wreckage of the Titanic as a cultural heritage and took them under guard, the actual coordinates were published.
2. The collapse of the Titanic, the largest steamship at that time, occurred during its first voyage on the night of April 14-15, 1912 in the northern waters of the Atlantic Ocean, 645 kilometers west of Newdowland Island.
3. The Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean, passing more than halfway from Great Britain to New York on April 14, 1912, as a result of a collision with an iceberg. The remains of the Titanic lie at the bottom of the Atlantic, south of the Great Newfoundland Bank, at a depth of 3.75 km, but not compactly: separately, the bow, which sank first, 700 meters to the south is the stern of the Titanic, around a few hundred meters - debris and individual components of the ship.
4. The sinking of the Titanic is one of the biggest tragedies in the world. It happened on April 14, 1912. The Titanic was making its maiden voyage, collided with an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Canada.
5. The Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Twenty-five minutes after the Titanic collided with the iceberg, at the command of the captain, the radio operator transmitted the first signal asking for help and indicated the coordinates - 41 degrees 46 minutes north latitude and 50 degrees 14 minutes west longitude. The approximate coordinates of the location of the remains of the vessel are 41.43.16 N and 49.56.27 ZD. Approximate because the two largest parts of the vessel are located at a distance of 600 meters from each other, and small parts are scattered within a radius of 3-4 kilometers. By the way, the underwater canyon where the Titanic sank now bears the name of the lost ship. (National Geographic source) The site of the death of the Titanic has now been precisely determined, and if we take the location of the steam boilers that fell out of the insides of a broken sinking ship and rapidly fell to the bottom almost vertically as a reference point, then the coordinates of the Titanic crash site are as follows: 41 ° 43 "35" N and 49°56"50" W.
6. The Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean before reaching Bermuda. The exact coordinates are still disputed. "California" gave one coordinates, according to which it is known exactly where the collision with the iceberg occurred - at a point with coordinates 41 degrees 46 seconds; north latitude and 50 degrees 14 seconds; west longitude, but later it was found that these calculated them incorrectly. After the collision, the ship was still moving for some time before it sank.
7. The Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, at a distance of a little more than half a thousand kilometers to the west of Newdowland Island. The exact coordinates of the site of the sinking of the Titanic are: 41g 43min 57sec north latitude and 49g 56min 49sec west longitude. This is the nose. The aft part is located in a slightly different place: 41° 43min 35sec north latitude and 49° 56min 54sec west longitude.
8. If you are interested in the coordinates of the shipwreck, that is, the exact place where the Titanic sank, then this is 645 km west of the island called Newfoundland. By the way, the exact location of the wreck of the Titanic was only found out in 1985. 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. It was the first and last voyage of the Titanic.
9. The place of the death of the Titanic has the coordinates: 41 degrees 46 minutes north latitude and 50 degrees 14 minutes west longitude.
10. The Titanic sank off the coast of Canada on its very first voyage on April 14, 1912. Coordinates: 41°43min.55 sec. sowing lat. 49°56 min. 45 sec. app. duty. The sinking of the Titanic impressed and continues to impress - the famous film Titanic only fueled interest in the disaster.
11. The Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on April 14, 1912. The exact coordinates of the place of his shipwreck: 41 degrees 46 minutes north latitude and 50 degrees 14 minutes west longitude. On this event, director James Cameron even made the film "Titanic".
12. The expedition was able to determine the exact place where the remains of the Titanic liner are located only in 1985. The Titanic is located at a depth of 3925 meters in the Atlantic Ocean, 375 miles from the island of Newfoundland. © site 
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