90 Years Ago Tonight

11:40 tonight marks the 90th anniversary of the greatest maratime disaster in history. On April 14, 1912 the RMS Titanic grazed an iceberg at over twenty knots and pierced five of her sixteen water tight compartments. Four feet would have saved her, but fate was not on the ships side. Over the next two hours and thiry five minutes the liner sank into the freezing depths of the North Atlantic finally disapearing at 2:15 in the morning on April 15. Over 1500 hundred lives were lost in the 28 degree water, only 703 survived the night to be rescued by the Cunard liner Carpathia which arrived with the dawn.
I know this isn't narrow gauge, but I thought people might be interested. And, by an odd twist of fate, the Titanic slipped beneath the waves the same day taxes are due. Symbolic huh?
Thanks, Taylor