What Really Happened?

April 10, 1912
12:00 noon Titanic leaves Southampton dock; narrowly escapes collision with American liner New York.
7:00 p.m. Stops at Cherbourg for passengers.
9:00 p.m. Leaves Cherbourg for Queenstown.
April 11, 1912
12:30 p.m. Stops at Queenstown for passengers and mail. One crewman deserts.
2:00 p.m. Leaves Queenstown for New York, carrying 1,316 passengers and 891 crew.
April 14, 1912
9:00 a.m. Carona reports ice.
1:42 p.m. Baltic reports ice.
1:45 p.m. Amerika reports ice.
7:00 p.m. Temperature is 43 degrees Fahrenheit.
7:30 p.m. Temperature is 39 degrees Fahrenheit.
7:30 p.m. Californian reports ice.
9:00 p.m. Temperature is 33 degrees Fahrenheit.
9:30 p.m. Second Officer Lightoller warns carpenter and engine room to watch fresh water supply- may freeze up; warns crow's-nest to watch for ice.
9:40 p.m. Mesaba reports ice.
10:00 p.m. Temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
10:30 p.m. Temperature of sea down to 31 degrees Fahrenheit.
11:00 p.m. Californian warns of ice, but cut off before she gives location.
11:40 p.m. Titanic collides with iceberg.
April 15, 1912
12:05 a.m. Orders give to uncover the lifeboats, muster the crew and passengers.
12:15 a.m. First wireless call for help.
12:45 a.m. First rocket fired.
12:45 a.m. First boat, No. 7, lowered.
1:40 a.m. Last rocket fired.
2:05 a.m. Last lifeboat, Collapsible D, lowered.
2:10 a.m. Last wireless signals sent.
2:18 a.m. Lights fail.
2:20 a.m. Ship founders.
3:30 a.m. Carpathia's rockets sighted by lifeboats.
4:10 a.m. First lifeboat, No. 2, picked up by Carpathia.
8:30 a.m. Last lifeboat, No. 12, picked up.
8:50 a.m. Carpathia heads for New York with 705 survivors.

This information was taken from Walter Lord's A Night To Remember.

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