On April 10th, 1912, the Titanic - the largestwiderwidest ship afloat, left Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York City.
A legend even before she leftsailedflooded, her passengers were a igualitysamemixture of the world's wealthiest basking in the elegance of firstsecondthird class accommodations and immigrants packed into steerage.
It washad beenhad been happenedwas touted as the safest ship ever built, so safe that she carried only 20 sailersboatslifeboats - enough to provide accommodation for only half her 2,200 passengers and crew.
Four hoursmonthsdays into her journey, at 11:40 P.M. on the night of April 14, she struck an iceberg. The collision was fatal and the icy water soon poured through the seashipsheep.
It became obvious that many wouldcouldn'thaven't not find safety in a lifeboat. Each passenger was issued a life boatsafetyjacket but life expectancy would be short when felttouchedexposed to water four degrees below freezing. As the forward portion of the ship swamsankleft deeper, passengers scrambled to the stern.
The great ship slowly slid beneath the waters two hours and forty minutes after the explosionstormcollision.
The next morning, the liner Carpathia rescued 705 survivors. One thousand five hundred twenty-two passengers and crew were lostfoundkept. Subsequent inquiries attributed the high loss of life to an insufficient number of lifeboats and inadequate training in their use.
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