- TrueReels
- Series
- Miss Unsinkable
- Episode 7
Miss Unsinkable: Three Ships. Three Disasters. One Nurse.Episode 71:41
The Ship That Came Back for the Living
After Titanic disappeared at 2:20 a.m., the survivors’ story depended on another liner reaching the scattered lifeboats.
Watch it in the appThis episode needs All Access, from $4.99 a week.
Transcript
Titanic sank, and the Carpathia picked up survivors.
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15th, 1912, Titanic sank into the North Atlantic.
She sank about four hours after striking an iceberg off Newfoundland.
Titanic's 20 lifeboats could accommodate only about half of 2,228 aboard.
Around them, the darkness gathered while the distant horizon remained still.
Rescue crews lowered ropes as the lifeboats drew alongside.
Across the deck, silence gathered around the ropes.
GovInfo reports that 703 people were rescued from Titanic.
But more than 1,500 people died in the Titanic disaster.
Many of those who died came from upper-class British and American society.
Titanic had been the largest passenger ship yet built when it sank.
The sinking punctured the era's confidence in humanity's triumph over nature.
The U.S. and British governments asked whether the disaster could have been prevented.
Ice reports were issued to the maritime world daily before April 14th, 1912.
The Hydrographer wrote that Titanic had transmitted the report of the iceberg that caused its sinking.
The Hydrographer wrote that heeding the warning Titanic transmitted would probably have saved the ship.
On April 19th, 1912, Senate hearings began at New York's Waldorf-Astoria.
Where it leaves off
When Titanic’s survivors landed, Senator William A. Smith was waiting to turn their memories into evidence.
Sources
- Sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic | GovInfogovinfo.govsecondary
- U.S. Senate: Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigationsenate.govsecondary
- Exhibit: Titanic Memorandumarchives.govsecondary
- Introduction - Wreck of the RMS Titanic: A Resource Guide - Research Guides at Library of Congressguides.loc.govsecondary
- The Titanic: A Warning Ignored | National Archivesarchives.govsecondary
The whole series is in the app.
Download on the App StoreAll Access is $4.99 a week, $14.99 a month or $39.99 a year. The annual plan starts with three days free.