When did the Titanic Sink

Although it's been years, I can still recall Gloria Stuart's dialog when she starts narrating her story about the 'unsinkable' ship, 'Titanic' and how she referred to it as the ship of dreams. People used to say that Titanic was such a ship, that even God would not be able to sink it. But, we all know what was the fate of this ship and to the 2,227 people on board. On the night of April 14, 1912, this unsinkable ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean taking with it 1,517 people. Do you want to know more about the history of Titanic ship? Where it sank? Some facts about the ship and also when did the Titanic sink? Given below are some information which I am sure you will find interesting.

End of a Journey

If you go through the history books the date was 14th April, 1912. The ship struck the iceberg on that day at around 11:40 P.M. and by dawn the next day, the ship sank. By the time the last life boat left the ship, the time was 02:05 in the morning. At 02:18 A.M. the ship started splitting into two halves and at 02:20 A.M the stem of the ship started its final plunge into the deep sea.

Facts about Titanic

Let us now read some of the interesting Titanic facts. Here are some of the facts that I am sure you will find interesting:

• The RMS Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world and she set off on her maiden voyage on 10th April, 1912, from Southampton in England, for New York City.
• The ship was built in the Harland and Wolff Yards, in Ireland and the company that built this ship was White Star Line and it was owned by J.P. Morgan.
• The 'RMS' in RMS Titanic stands for 'Royal Mail Stream'. Nearly 3000 men and almost 2 years were taken to build this ship.
• The ship had 4 smoke funnels but out of these 4, only 3 worked. The fourth one was just for show.
• This ship was referred to as the 'unsinkable' and so sure were its makers about this fact, that they carried just 20 lifeboats which had the capacity to carry only 1178 people.
• How did the Titanic sink? The ship sank because it had hit an iceberg. The ship suffered 6 narrow gashes in the hull and this started letting in water into the watertight compartment. There were 16 watertight compartments, but in reality they were not exactly watertight.
• As the compartments started filling with water, the stern of the ship started rising out of the water and finally not being able to take the excess pressure, the ship broke into two halves, just near the third funnel.
• This caused the bow of the ship to sink and the stern of the ship settled back for the time being. Once the stern started getting filled with water, it rose out of the water level, floated on the surface of the water for about a minute and then went underwater.
• The iceberg that the ship struck was not white like the other icebergs. With its reflection in the clear water and also due to the effect of the clear sky, this object first appeared black from a great distance. Hence it can also be called the 'blackberg'.

Now that you know why did the Titanic sink, let us see where did the Titanic sink. The Titanic ship was journeying from Southampton in England to New York City in America when the tragedy took place. The night when it sank, the ship was 400 miles south of the Grand Banks in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Ocean is vast, hence to pinpoint exactly where the ship sank is difficult. But as per the last radio signal of help from the ship, the remains of the ship were found nearly 375 miles southeast of St. John's in Newfoundland.

The fateful night of April 14, 1912 saw one of the worst tragedies, which not only resulted in incomparable loss of life and property, but also left an indelible mark in the minds of those whole lost so much to the Atlantic.