Where did the Titanic Sink

When the British passenger steamship - RMS Titanic set sail on 10th April, 1912, from Southampton, England, little did the passengers on board know that they were heading for a disaster. The fact that the Titanic was designed by some of the best engineers, and utilized the most advanced technology available at that time, didn't come to its rescue as it met its watery grave in the Atlantic. The 1912 sinking of the Titanic ship is regarded as one of the biggest maritime disasters ever experienced in the world. Around 1,517 people lost their lives in this tragic incident. Before we move on to the details of when and where did the Titanic sink, let's have a brief look at the history of the Titanic ship in the following paragraph.

Titanic: A Brief History
The Titanic was owned by the British shipping company - White Star Line. One of the lesser known Titanic facts is that it was actually built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, in March 1912. It was 882 ft 9 inches in length, 92 ft 6 inches in width and had a height of 175 ft. It took the construction firm three years, and cost a whopping $7,500,000 to build the Titanic, which was then the largest passenger steamship in the world. The ship was launched on 31st May, 1911, and it set for its maiden voyage on 10th April, 1912, on a journey from Southampton, England, to New York, United States. A total of 2,228 people, 1,343 passengers and 885 crew members, were on the ship when it left for New York. The list of passengers on the ship included some of the rich and famous people from Europe and America.

When and Where did the Titanic Sink?
After it began its journey from Southampton, RMS Titanic crossed the English Channel and took its first halt at Cherbourg, France. When the ship left France, there were a total of 2,240 people on the ship. On the night of 14th April, 1912. At around 11:30 PM, when the ship was around 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the people employed as lookouts on the ship spotted a huge iceberg right in the path of the ship. By this time, the Titanic had crossed the half distance of its trans-Atlantic route. Even though the crew tried their best to avoid the iceberg, it brushed on the right side of the ship.

The impact was enough to pop out the rivets below the waterline, owing to which water began to get accumulated in the compartments. There were 20 lifeboats on the Titanic, which had a total capacity of 1,178 people. These life boats were used to save as many lives as possible. By 02:05 AM, the entire bow of the ship was under water, and by 2:40 AM the entire ship had submerged. After it brushed the iceberg at around 11:30 PM, it took three hours for the Titanic to sink. In the meanwhile, several efforts were made to get help from other ships in the Atlantic, but none of these efforts could yield any results.

Owing to the vastness of the ocean, it was very difficult to determine exactly where did the Titanic sink. The remains of the ship were discovered on the basis of its last distress call. Eventually the submerged Titanic was located at a depth of 3,925 meters in the Atlantic Ocean, in 1985. This place where the Titanic lies submerged today is located 375 miles southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland.