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The Truth Behind the Titanic Disaster

Welcome to our special report that attempts to state what really happened aboard the RMS Titanic.

Titanic Sets Sail

Captain E. J. Smith.

At noon on April 10, 1912 the Titanic set sail from the White Star dock in Southampton. Since the ship was so gigantic when it moved it displaced massive amounts of water. This actually caused another ship, The New York, to break from its moorings and pull away from the dock, straight at the Titanic. A collision was avoided because tugs were able to get The New York under control. This may have been a sign of the terrible things to come in the Titanic's near future.

Due to winds in Greenland and Canada over the previous year large amounts of ice had drifted more south than usual. The Titanic altered its course on April 13th in order to avoid this hazardous ice. This may have been the reason why the ship was going 22 knots, possibly to make up lost time from the change in course.

Here is a copy of the dinner menu on the Titanic (divided by class) [CLICK HERE]

Tragedy in the Atlantic

The Titanic breaks in two under enormous pressure.

The Titanic received a message from the Mesaba saying to travel further south to avoid large quantities of ice. Phillips, the wireless director disregarded the signal because there were many personal messages waiting to be sent. Phillip's also disregarded a similar signal from the Californian.

At 11:40PM a message came from the crow's nest of an iceberg that lay dead ahead. The ice passed the starboard side appearing to be passing without a collision. That is until the ice contacted the ship under water and sheared a 250 ft series of holes in the Titanic's hull. This only took about 10 seconds. The watertight doors were ordered shut but 6 compartments were already semi-filled with water. This would eventually pull the bow down far enough that they would totally fill. They only had an estimated 1.5 to 2 hours until the liner would sink.

Since there was only enough lifeboats to carry about half the people aboard the Titanic, women and children were the only ones admitted to get in them in the beginning. Once the women and children were aboard the men were permitted. 1st and 2nd class passengers were lead up to the deck while the 3rd class were left to find their own way. The last of the lifeboats was lowered into the water at 1:55AM. The rest of the collapsable boats were lowered at 2:05AM.

Here is a casualty chart for the Titanic in order of classes. [CLICK HERE]

At 2:10AM there was a sudden movement in the ship and the bow sank deeper into the ocean. The stern rose high out of the water and forces the forward funnel to fall down, killing many swimmers as it hit the water. 1,500 people were still aboard the Titanic with little or no hope for rescue. The stern rose almost vertically, the lights flickered, and the Titanic started its decent into the Atlantic Ocean. Since the stern was so high it put enormous pressure on the middle part of the ship. This caused it to crack into two pieces as it sunk.

Here is a Cross Section of the Titanic complete with where the water entered the hull. [CLICK HERE]

Why??

The news of the Titanic hits the world.

The question comes to mind: Why did such a "Unsinkable" ship sink? Well there are many reasons. One of which is the fact that the metal used on the ship was of very bad quality and the cold temperatures of the water amplified this.

Also, the loss of life on the Titanic was massive: 1,517 died on the Titanic. This was because there were not enough lifeboats to accomodate such a large amount of people. This was a truely fatal mistake which cost many their lives.

A news headline telling of the disaster.

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