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TITANIC SINKS SHORTLY AFTER HITTING ICEBERG

Shortly before midnight on April 14^th 1912, on the voyage from Southampton to New York City, Titanic struck an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on April 15^th 1912. The sinking resulted in 1,517 deaths, of the 2,223 people on board, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. The ship did not carry lifeboats for everyone aboard. The ship had a total lifeboat capacity of 1,178 people, although the maximum capacity was 3,547. Several men died, due to the ‘women and children first’ protocol that was followed. The Titanic was popularly believed to have been unsinkable.

On April 18^th 1912, another rather large ship named Carpathia, docked at Pier 54, in New York with 706 Titanic survivors. It was greeted by many, and celebrated by several. No one believed the Titanic would sink because of the great technological advances they invested upon it. Although the Titanic is a well-known disaster around the world, it holds the record for the largest capacity of passengers.

Article Done by: Danielle Thomson