The Day Titanic Sank

♦      April 15: On this day in 1912 at 2:20am, the British ocean liner, Titanic, sank into the North Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg. This massive ship was one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built and was deemed unsinkable. The Titanic departed from Southampton England to carry 2,200 passengers and crew to New York City.

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♦      Lifeboat Drill: This was scheduled to take place on board the Titanic on April 14, 1912 – the day before it hit the iceberg – but for some unknown reason, Captain Smith canceled the drill. It is believed by many that if the drill had taken place, more lives could have been saved.

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♦      1898: In this year, 14 years prior to the Titanic tragedy, Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called Futility. This fictitious novel was about the largest ship ever built, Titan, hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on a cold April night. Both the fictitious ship, Titan, and the real ship, Titanic, were similar in design, and their circumstances were remarkably alike. Both ships were labeled “unsinkable.”

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♦      18: The number of women on the crew of the Titanic (out of 900). This is said to be rooted in a longstanding superstition that women brought bad luck to ships. Seventeen of these stewardesses made it onto lifeboats and survived the disaster.

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♦      No. 13: Thirty minutes after its departure, this lifeboat struck a very small iceberg and sank. Luckily, no passengers were aboard because they didn’t want to get into a lifeboat numbered 13.

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