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Ice! The Titanic Disaster
At 11:40 p.m. ship's time -- 9:50 p.m. in New York -- on the night of April 14, 1912, Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The ice buckled hull plates and popped rivets along 300 feet of the vessel's starboard side, breaching six of her watertight compartments. Emotions onboard staggered from disbelief, to resistance, and finally to panic as passengers and crew comprehended their ship's unimaginable fate. In the radio room, frantic operators sent distress signals. With too few lifeboats, only 712 of the 2,229 people aboard Titanic lived to see sunrise on April 15. |