Iceberg sighted and struck

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1. Story
2. On a flat calm, moonless sea, lookout Frederick Fleet rang three bells and telephoned the bridge: iceberg right ahead. First Officer Murdoch ordered the helm over and the engines reversed; roughly half a minute later the berg scraped down the starboard side. Later sonar work on the buried hull indicated a series of narrow openings totalling only a few square metres — not a continuous gash — but they were spread over about 90 m and opened the forward six compartments to the sea. She was making about 22 knots.
3. Knowledge
4. RMS Titanic
5. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
6. Captain Edward John Smith
7. Iceberg sighted and struck
8. Connections
9. RMS Titanic
10. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
11. Captain Edward John Smith
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 iceberg drift
52. Titanic wreck site
53. International Ice Patrol
54. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
55. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
56. Iceberg sighted and struck
57. Titanic founders
58. International Ice Patrol established
59. Gulf Stream
60. Southern Ocean
61. Labrador Sea
62. The RAPID array begins continuous AMOC measurement at 26.5°N
63. RMS Titanic
64. RMS Olympic
65. Maiden voyage departs Southampton
66. Iceberg sighted and struck
67. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
68. Titanic founders
69. Evidence
70. 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.
71. Imaging of the sediment-buried starboard plating indicated a series of narrow separations along about 90 m of hull totalling only a few square metres in area, rather than the long continuous gash assumed in 1912.