Titanic
... reached the ship but the Titanic continued to steam ahead at twenty-two knots per hour. The ship’s bell warns of an iceberg spotted dead ahead at 11:30 P.M. The Titanic strikes the iceberg at 11:40. All of the watertight doors are closed when water begins to pour into the No. 6 boiler room. There is a great gash about two feet above the floor plates and within ten minutes there were eight feet of water in No 6. All six compartments forward of No. 4 were open to the sea from a three hundred foot gash in the bottom of the ship. Most of the passengers did not know the Titanic was sinking. At 12:20 water bursts into the seamen’s quarters through a collapsed fore-and-aft wooden bulkhead The ship’s position is sent out to all fleet of vessels at 12:25 A.M and at 12:30 women and children are ordered in the life boats. Water creeps over the bulkhead between Nos. 5 and 6 firerooms – She is going down by the head. At 12:45, Officer Murdock, in charge on the starboard side orders boat No 7 lowered. The band plays ragtime. Boat No. 6 goes over the side with only twenty-eight people in a lifeboat with a capacity of sixty-five. By 1:00 A.M. – the water creeps higher – the fore ports of the Titanic are dipping into the sea by 1:45. As of 2:00 A.M. there are about 600 people in the boats and 1,500 still on the sinking Titanic. Below decks the steam is still holding, though the pressure is falling rapidly. The band plays – “Nearer my God to Thee.” At 2:17, The Virginian hears a ragged, blurred CQ, then an abrupt stop. Men swim from the sinking ship; others drop from the stern. The forward funnel snaps and crashes into the sea. The ship upends to 50 – 60 degrees at 2:20 A.M. The Titanic slips beneath the surface of the sea. The lifeboats were poorly manned and badly equipped and were not evenly loaded. The Carpathia sees the first sights of a green light from No 2 boat at 2:40 A.M and at 4:10; she picks up the first boat and learns the Titanic has floundered. Captain Rostron takes on the survivors boatload by boatload. By Monday evening, messages reaching New York leave little...