(off topic) Unsinkable 97 years ago.
| April 14, 2009 10:27AM |
April 10th 1912 RMS Titanic leaves on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. With 2,223 people aboard her she is racing across the Atlantic ocean at full speed, ignoring ice warnings from other ships
April 14, 1912 Titanic hits an Iceberg at 11:40pm. With her first 5 watertight compartments flooding. the unsinkable ship is doomed to sink with with only enough room in the lifeboats for less then half of the passengers on the ship.
WIth the band playing, first and second class passengers are loading into the lifeboats, while third class passengers are locked below decks. By captains orders women and children go first into the boats. Titanic is the first ship to use SOS to single for help. While also firing distress rockets in hope a near by ship might see them.
April 15,1912 at 2:20, 2 hours and 40 minutes after hitting the iceberg the Titanic sinks beneath the see with 1517 to go into the sea.
by morning the 706 survivors are picked up by the RMS Carpathia and taken to New York.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/2009 03:48PM by Chatzi473.
April 14, 1912 Titanic hits an Iceberg at 11:40pm. With her first 5 watertight compartments flooding. the unsinkable ship is doomed to sink with with only enough room in the lifeboats for less then half of the passengers on the ship.
WIth the band playing, first and second class passengers are loading into the lifeboats, while third class passengers are locked below decks. By captains orders women and children go first into the boats. Titanic is the first ship to use SOS to single for help. While also firing distress rockets in hope a near by ship might see them.
April 15,1912 at 2:20, 2 hours and 40 minutes after hitting the iceberg the Titanic sinks beneath the see with 1517 to go into the sea.
by morning the 706 survivors are picked up by the RMS Carpathia and taken to New York.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/2009 03:48PM by Chatzi473.
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