Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
A single day of trials in the Irish Sea — turning circles, a stopping test from about 20 knots, and a short run at speed — after which Titanic was signed over to White Star and sailed overnight for Southampton, arriving in the small hours of 4 April.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- RMS Titanic · vessel · not located
- White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company) · shipping company · not located
- Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast · shipyard · United Kingdom
Evidence
Verified — Every field is supported by a cited authoritative source.
Harland and Wolff yard records for hulls 400, 401 and 433
Titanic was yard number 401: keel laid 31 March 1909, launched 31 May 1911, completed and handed over 2 April 1912; Olympic was hull 400 and Britannic hull 433.
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland / National Museums NI · Verified
Harland and Wolff shipyard collection, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, with the yard drawing and photographic collections held by National Museums NI
Recorded on RMS Titanic
- Keel of yard number 401 laid at Harland and Wolff
- Titanic launched at Belfast
- Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
- Maiden voyage departs Southampton
- Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
- Titanic sails from Cherbourg for Queenstown
- Titanic anchors off Roche's Point, Queenstown
- Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
- Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
- Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
- Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
- Iceberg sighted and struck
- Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
- First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
- First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
- Last boat launched from the davits
- Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
- Titanic founders
- Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
- Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead
Related
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- Wreck located by the Argo camera sled · 1985-09-01
- Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead · 1912-04-17
- Andrews establishes the ship cannot float · 1912-04-15 00:05
- First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS · 1912-04-15 00:15
- First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired · 1912-04-15 00:45
- Last boat launched from the davits · 1912-04-15 02:05
- Lights fail and the hull breaks in two · 1912-04-15 02:18
- Titanic founders · 1912-04-15 02:20