Lights fail and the hull breaks in two

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1. Story
2. With the stern lifted clear of the water the lights blinked once and went out, and the hull tore apart between the third and fourth funnels. Many survivors described exactly this; the British inquiry rejected their evidence and recorded that the ship sank intact. The 1985 discovery of two widely separated sections settled the question in the survivors' favour.
3. Knowledge
4. RMS Titanic
5. Titanic wreck site
6. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
7. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
8. Connections
9. RMS Titanic
10. Titanic wreck site
11. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
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. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
52. 1985 Franco-American Titanic search
53. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
54. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
55. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
56. First human visits to the wreck
57. Wreck becomes eligible for UNESCO protection
58. SS Californian
59. RMS Titanic
60. Board of Trade Life-Saving Appliances Rules (1894)
61. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
62. British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry opens in London
63. Mersey report published
64. Evidence
65. 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.
66. The wreck was located on 1 September 1985 by the towed imaging sled Argo; the hull lay in two major sections roughly 600 m apart with an intervening debris field, at approximately 3,800 m depth.