The TitanicStruck an ice berg at 11:40 pm on April 14, 1912. The ship was, at that time, going 26 knots(29.9 mph) and all of the biolers were lighted. Officer Fleet and Officier Lee spotted the iceberg 30 seconds before it struck. Fleet called the bridge and said the famous words, "Iceberg, right ahead!". Officier Murdoch ordered for the ship to immediately be turned 'Hard a' starboard'(Which means to swing the back of the ship to the right), and waited to see what would happen. The ship struck the iceberg at about 11:40 pm on the starboard(right) side. As soon as the ship started to scrape along the iceberg under the waterline, Murdoch ordered to turn the ship 'Hard a' port'(Turn the back of the ship left). The water flodded six compartments, where the ship was only designed to carry three compartments full (Compartments are those big dividing walls on the ship's bottom to 'E' deck shown on the "Deck Plans" page.). The ship slowly sank about two hours until the deck started to tilt quickly, head first into the water. At about 2:10 am on April 15, the ship split, and half fell into the water completely, while the other half fell level. The half that was under the water, pulled the level half up again, making it completely vertical(Vertical is uo and down, and horizontal is side to side.), and detaches. The vertical part of the ship sits and bobs for about a minute or two, and starts to quickly sink. The ship was last seen at 2:20am. The Carpathia picked up the 700 survivors(out of 2,226)at around 7:00am on the same day. 1,500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic, "The unsinkable ship".
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