The journey began in Southampton on Wednesday, april 10th 1912. Captain Smith arrived at eight and is provided with the schedule by cheif officer Wilde, who had transferred from Olympic by Captain Smiths request. Officer Murdoch was not happy about this since he was forced to step down from chief to first officer.
    Between 9.30-11.30 arrived three trains with passangers. Luggage is loaded onboard and around around 12.00 Titanic is of on her maiden voyage. A couple of minutes later, Titanic was close to collide with a ship named New York. But Captain Smith made an manoeuvre that saved both ships.
   After crossing the british channel, Titanic arrived in Cherbourg (France) around 17.30, rather late after the incident with New York. But passangers is finaly taken aboard, among them John Jacob Astor and his wife. Titanic leaves Cherbourg around 20.30, heading for Queenstown (Ireland). The crew test Titanic in different ways and performes a short fire drill.
   Titanic arrives at Queenstown on the morning of April 11th. More passangers arrive and some leave. One of them is Father Browne, later famous for the photographs he took onboard Titanic. Titanic is loaded with mail and leaves Queenstown around 13.30 for destination New York City. Onboard is 1343 passangers and a crew of 885. Titanic travelled across the coast of Ireland during the evening providing the passangers with the beautiful view on the Irish coast.
   On Friday morning April 12th Titanic was making good speed. Many passangers stayed indoors since the weather was getting colder. Several reports of ice was recived. Late that night the telegraph broke down...
   On the morning of April 13th the telegraph was back in order and more ice reports was recived. Around 10.30 begun an inspection Captain Smith of the ship. And outside it was getting colder.

Sunday April 14th begun with a little rain. 10.30 was sunday service arranged in all the dining rooms aboard. One of the hymns sung was For Those In Peril On The Sea. Around 13.42 the telegraph recived an ice report. Captain Smith took this message and later gave it to Bruce Ismay during an encounter on the promenadedeck. Towards the evening the sky turned pink and orange. First class passangers Marian Thayer och Emily Ryerson lingered on deck to watch the sunset. Bruce Ismay joined them and showed them the ice warning. To avoid the ice ahead Captain Smith changed the course at 17.50. But Titanic was travelling to fast in such dangerous waters, making almost 22 knops. Around 19.30 Titanic recived three ice warnings from the Californian. Captain Smith was eating dinner at the a la carte restaurant, in third class a small party was dancing. Captain Smith left the dinnertable at 20.55 and headed to the bridge where he talked about the calm weather. Captain Smith left the bridge at 21.30 instructing the officers to let him know if anything happend.
    Californian sent another ice warning around 21.40, but Titanic did not respond. In third class many had gone to bed, but in second class there was some singing lead by Reverend Carter. But more and more people went to bed. Around 21.55, Titanic recived yet another warning of ice from the Californian. Furious the telegraphist on Titanic responded angry to the Californian to stop blocking their signal. The telegraphist on Californian shut down their telegraph and went to bed.
    On 23.30 the lockouts on Titanic, Fleet and Lee, spotted and iceberg. They rang to the bridge where Sixth Officer Moody responded.
  - Yes, what do you see?
  - Iceberg, right ahead
  - Thank you
First Officer Murdoch turned the ship port. To take precaution, Murdoch also shut the waterproff doors. But had the ship hit the iceberg? No one knew. Some passangers felt the ship shuddering, some had been thrown out of their beds, while others hade felt nothing. Captain Smith arrived on the bridge and asked Murdoch was they had hit. Captain Smith ordered the machines to stop and a quick inspection of the ship.
    In third class the single men cabinswas slowly being filled with water. Scared the men rushed away to the stern to warn friends and loved ones. But for many the first sign of danger was that the machines had stopped. Many went up on deck to see what was the matter, but nothing could be seen except some ice on the bow. The post room was now taking in water and with the new information Thomas Andrews drew the conclusion was Titanic was going to sink. Chocked, Captain Smith walked to telegraph office and ordered them to send an CQD, a signal for help.

On Monday April 15th Captain Smith orderd his officers to uncover the lifeboats. The lifeboats could take 1178 of the 2228 onboard. To calm the confused passangers Captain Smith ordered the band to play, and so they did all night. As the ship was taking in more and more water, Captain Smith ordered women and children into the lifeboats around 00.25.
    But many was still asleep. On first class stewards politely knocked on the door, in second class the stewards banged the doors. But it was worst for the third class passangers where the stewards shouted and ripped down the lifebelts on the floor. Many third class passangers did no know english wich made the confusion even greater since there was no one to ask. No alarms and no signals warned the passangers. No sign of danger could be seen for most of the passangers, they were just told to wear warm clothes and lifebelts.
    The first lifeboat, number 7, was lowerd 00.45 and carried only 28 people. Meanwhile the first rocket was fired by order of Smith. Lightoller was in charge for the lifeboats on the port, Murdoch on starboard. Lightoller followed the rule "Women and children first" while Murdoch allowed men to go if there was room.
    The gap between the lifeboat and the boatdeck was terrifying. If one fell it would be a fall of over twenty meters. So Lightoller lowerd boat 4 to A-deck, as it seemed easier to climb the boat there than from the boatdeck. But the windows on the A-deck was closed so Lightoller continued filling boat 6.
    The first passangers to went into the boats was first and second class womena and children. The crew feared that the boats would crush when the hit the surface and only filled the boats by half. A light could be seen in the dark and the boats was ordered to row in that direction.
    Around 00.55 Murdoch and Lowe lowered boat number 5 when Bruce Ismay stood beside them screaming for them to work faster. Lowe had enough and put the director of White Star Line at place. Ismay left chocked the scene.
    The confusion increased in third class. No one knew where the boatdeck was located and several locked doors blocked their way. Stewards was supposed to guide passangers in groups up to the boatdeck, but only two such groups reached the boatdeck. It was difficult to separate the famillies. But as the ship begun to rake down, more got the seriousness about the ships condition. People stepped into the lifeboats more willingly than before.
    When Officer Lowe took charge of boat 14, he was forced to fire three shots with his gun (in the air) in order to prevent people from jumping into the boat. Even Lightoller had to use his gun when a group of men tried to jump into boat 2, but the gun was unloaded. On Deck-A the windows was finaly opened and boat 4 was finaly put in water. Around 01.55 most of the lifeboats was in the water and people moved towards the stern to avoid the streaming water. Panic breaked out and Bruce Ismay saved himself when boat C was lowered, he jumped into the boat. Many third class passangers had found their way up to the deck, but it was too late. Only one boat remained, D. Lightoller was commanded into the boat but the refused. The boat reached water in 02.05.
    1500 people was now trapped aboard the sinking ship. Captain Smith walked into the telegaphs office around 02.10 and released the telegaphists from the duties. The refused and continued working until 02.17 when the last signal was sent. The lights went out in 02.18. The stern pointed to the sky and sank 02.20 into the ocean. Then followed a silence that broke into a chorus of screams. Most of the people in the water did not drown, they froze to death. One hour after the sinking, the screames had faded. One boat decided to turn back, 14 in command of Officer Lowe. Four people was picked up and then there was nothing but to wait. Around 03.30 a light could be spotted in the distant - the Carpathia. The surviors was taken aboard and then the ship headed for New York...

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