Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead

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1. Story
2. Too large for the quays, she anchored offshore and was worked by the tenders Nomadic and Traffic. Among those boarding were John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim and Margaret Brown, alongside several hundred emigrants in third class.
3. Knowledge
4. RMS Titanic
5. Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
6. Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
7. Connections
8. RMS Titanic
9. Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
10. Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
11. Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
12. Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage
13. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
14. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
15. Titanic wreck site
16. Captain Edward John Smith
17. White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
18. Thomas Andrews
19. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
20. Titanic's lifeboat complement
21. Olympic-class liner
22. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
23. Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)
24. RMS Carpathia
25. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
26. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
27. Keel of yard number 401 laid at Harland and Wolff
28. Titanic launched at Belfast
29. Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
30. Maiden voyage departs Southampton
31. Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
32. Titanic sails from Cherbourg for Queenstown
33. Titanic anchors off Roche's Point, Queenstown
34. Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
35. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
36. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
37. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
38. Iceberg sighted and struck
39. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
40. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
41. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
42. Last boat launched from the davits
43. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
44. Titanic founders
45. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
46. Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead
47. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
48. RMS Titanic
49. Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
50. Titanic sails from Cherbourg for Queenstown
51. Evidence
52. 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.