First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired

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1. Story
2. Lifeboat 7 went down the starboard side with about 28 people in a boat rated for 65. Around the same time the first of eight white rockets was fired. There had been no boat drill for passengers, the crew were unpractised, and few believed the ship was in danger — the pattern that left the boats carrying roughly 700 of a possible 1,178.
3. Knowledge
4. RMS Titanic
5. SS Californian
6. Titanic's lifeboat complement
7. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
8. Connections
9. RMS Titanic
10. Titanic's lifeboat complement
11. SS Californian
12. Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
13. Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
14. Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage
15. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
16. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
17. Titanic wreck site
18. Captain Edward John Smith
19. White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
20. Thomas Andrews
21. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
22. Titanic's lifeboat complement
23. Olympic-class liner
24. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
25. Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)
26. RMS Carpathia
27. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
28. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
29. Keel of yard number 401 laid at Harland and Wolff
30. Titanic launched at Belfast
31. Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
32. Maiden voyage departs Southampton
33. Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
34. Titanic sails from Cherbourg for Queenstown
35. Titanic anchors off Roche's Point, Queenstown
36. Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
37. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
38. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
39. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
40. Iceberg sighted and struck
41. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
42. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
43. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
44. Last boat launched from the davits
45. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
46. Titanic founders
47. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
48. Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead
49. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
50. RMS Titanic
51. Board of Trade Life-Saving Appliances Rules (1894)
52. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
53. Last boat launched from the davits
54. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London
55. Captain Stanley Lord
56. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
57. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
58. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
59. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
60. US Senate report submitted
61. Mersey report published
62. Evidence
63. 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.