Titanic founders

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1. Story
2. Two hours and forty minutes after the collision the stern settled and went down. Around 1,500 people died, the great majority in water close to freezing; only a handful were pulled from it into the boats. Casualty totals differ between the inquiries, the British finding 1,490 lost of 2,201 aboard and the American 1,517 of 2,223.
3. Knowledge
4. RMS Titanic
5. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
6. Captain Edward John Smith
7. Thomas Andrews
8. Jack Phillips (John George Phillips)
9. Titanic founders
10. Connections
11. RMS Titanic
12. Captain Edward John Smith
13. Thomas Andrews
14. Jack Phillips (John George Phillips)
15. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
16. Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
17. Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
18. Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage
19. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
20. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
21. Titanic wreck site
22. Captain Edward John Smith
23. White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
24. Thomas Andrews
25. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
26. Titanic's lifeboat complement
27. Olympic-class liner
28. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
29. Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)
30. RMS Carpathia
31. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
32. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
33. Keel of yard number 401 laid at Harland and Wolff
34. Titanic launched at Belfast
35. Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
36. Maiden voyage departs Southampton
37. Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
38. Titanic sails from Cherbourg for Queenstown
39. Titanic anchors off Roche's Point, Queenstown
40. Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
41. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
42. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
43. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
44. Iceberg sighted and struck
45. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
46. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
47. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
48. Last boat launched from the davits
49. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
50. Titanic founders
51. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
52. Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead
53. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
54. RMS Titanic
55. RMS Olympic
56. Maiden voyage departs Southampton
57. Iceberg sighted and struck
58. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
59. Titanic founders
60. RMS Titanic
61. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
62. Titanic founders
63. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
64. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
65. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
66. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
67. Titanic founders
68. RMS Titanic
69. North Atlantic iceberg drift
70. Titanic wreck site
71. International Ice Patrol
72. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
73. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
74. Iceberg sighted and struck
75. Titanic founders
76. International Ice Patrol established
77. Gulf Stream
78. Southern Ocean
79. Labrador Sea
80. The RAPID array begins continuous AMOC measurement at 26.5°N
81. Evidence
82. Found the loss due to collision with an iceberg brought about by the excessive speed at which the ship was navigated; recorded the ship's particulars, the voyage timings, the ice messages received and the lifeboat complement; held that Titanic exceeded the Board of Trade requirement; found the Californian could have reached her; concluded (incorrectly) that the hull sank intact.
83. Criticised the Californian's failure to respond to rockets, the absence of lifeboat drill and of a continuous wireless watch, and the inadequacy of lifeboat provision; recommended lifeboat seats for every person carried.